Apparently Obama's inability to govern is really a triumph of feminism

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sheshe2 (16,929 posts)

President Obama poses a deep threat to patriarchy
   
I found it fascinating that yesterday Russia's Deputy Prime Minister tweeted this:



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3:13 PM - 31 Jul 2014


This is the same message the Republicans send when they call our President weak on foreign policy and lefty purists used when they caricatured his dealings with Congress ( for example, remember when Michael Moore said that President Obama should take off his tutu and put on his boxing gloves?)

Here's how Adam Gopnik summarized the messages we've been hearing for years now:www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/mr-tough-guy

Barack Obama is not a tough guy. Everybody rolls him. He’s a wimp, a weak sister; he won’t stand up for himself or his country. Vladimir Putin, a true tough guy, blows planes out of the air, won’t apologize, walks around half-naked. Life, it seems, is like a prison yard, and Obama cowers in a corner. “It would be a hellish thing to live with such timidity. … He’s scared of Vladimir Putin,” one Fox News contributor said about the President. But this kind of thing is not confined to the weirder fringes: Maureen Dowd pointed out a while ago that former fans of Obama “now make derogatory remarks about your manhood,” while the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page runs a kind of compendium of “weak sister” pieces every morning, urging the President, at one point, to make more “unambiguous threats”—making unambiguous threats evidently being the real man’s method of getting his way.

“Barack Obama is the first female president,” The Daily Caller, a Web site co-founded by a former adviser to Dick Cheney, blared, without a trace of irony or consciousness that female might not be such a bad thing for a President to be. The Daily Caller lists seven basic “manly” traits—courage, industry, resolution, self-reliance, discipline, honor, and manliness, that last one bafflingly redundant but, hey, that’s the way men are—and shows how Obama fails in regard to each. (He’s terrified of his wife, apparently, though one would think that this is actually a classic Jimmy Stewart-style American sign of husbandliness.) Toni Morrison wrote memorably, in these pages, that Bill Clinton had become, in a symbolic sense, “our first black President”—meaning that Clinton’s perceived faults were flaws of appetite, of a kind that a racist imagination traditionally ascribed to black men. “His unpoliced sexuality became the focus of the persecution,” Morrison wrote. Obama’s perceived flaws are the ancient effeminate ones, of the kind that a bigoted tradition ascribed to women; above all, the criticism reflects the President’s unapologetic distaste for violent confrontation and for making loud threats, no matter how empty those threats may obviously be. (The joke, of course, is that, with Clinton as with Obama, the symbolic substitute may well precede the real thing.)

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Its important to note the way this framing is tied to gender. Men are strong and women are weak. The worst insult to a man is to compare him to a woman. Some of you may have assumed that we'd gotten beyond all that in the 21st century. But we haven't. I'm here to say that the reason it persists is that, for too many of us, the cause of feminism has been reduced to reproductive freedom and equal pay. As important as those things are, we've lost sight of the big picture.


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Until we can unpack those things, we'll remain trapped in a patriarchal system that devalues women and demands that men prove their manliness via their ability to dominate.

Just as President Obama threatens the system of white supremacy, he is also challenging the notions we have absorbed from patriarchy. I have often written about how his power (or strength) is not based on dominance - but partnership, and he regularly talks about the importance of empathy (another way of expressing nuturance). Those are just a couple of examples of how he scrambles all those notions about masculinity and femininity from within the body of a man. That confuses a lot of people and triggers some deep fears about a challenge to the way we've come to expect the world to be ordered. In other words, he's dealing a death blow to the old patriarchal system.

Read More: http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/08/president-obama-poses-deep-threat-to.html

 Well done.

So by acting like a disconnected idiot fag Obama is somehow redefining what it means to be a man and by doing so he's challenging the systems that have oppressed women since time immemorial.

How come President Mom Jeans Curtains McLimpy Wrist can't seem to challenge the Russian patriarchy or Muslim patriarchy?



Meanwhile...

[txradioguy]

Obama is a perfect example of what happens when you're raised by nothing but women without a strong male figure in your life.

Look at the two biggest influences in his life during his administration...two very domineering  Alpha type personalities...Valerie Jarrett and Michelle.

[USA4ME]

The sheshe2 primitive is FrenchieCat. Not sure why the racist had to change her user name on the island. Didn't change her disposition at all; she's still a cult worshipper of Dear Leader.

Also if you try to leave a comment at immasmartypants.blogspot of anything critical of liberalism, the chunky broad over there deletes it. Another lib who wants to shoot off their mouth but not hear anything that might shatter their little world.

Sorta like their Dear Leader.

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[JohnnyReb]

If he's a fine example of female governance, we damn sure don't need a woman president.

I know, there are level headed conservative women out there but what chance do they have of being elected? MSM will destroy any conservative woman competent enough of holding the office of president.

[whiffleball]

The sheshe2 primitive is FrenchieCat. Not sure why the racist had to change her user name on the island. Didn't change her disposition at all; she's still a cult worshipper of Dear Leader.

Also if you try to leave a comment at immasmartypants.blogspot of anything critical of liberalism, the chunky broad over there deletes it. Another lib who wants to shoot off their mouth but not hear anything that might shatter their little world.

Sorta like their Dear Leader.

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Then it's her sock because the FC is still active in the BOG as recently as July 23.  Skins is falling down on the job of rooting out serial IDs.

[Big Dog]

Life, it seems, is like a prison yard, and Obama cowers in a corner.

Life is like a prison yard (or more accurately, a prison yard is like life), just as it always has been- and it amuses me that moonbats imagine it to be different here in "the 21st century".

In this prison yard, King Putt is the bitch. Putin could trade him for smokes.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Man, I had to stop reading even the clipped version of that gay mewling whinefest the DUmmie quoted.  It started hurting my brain to read crap that stupid.

[Chris_]

...the criticism reflects the President’s unapologetic distaste ... for making loud threats, no matter how empty those threats may obviously be.

This clown must be ignorant of all the "Republicans are evil" rhetoric King Barry uses at his fundraisers.