Random Sunday Annoyances

Before I head off to my parents’ place in search of yummy food and day-early gifts, I just wanted to share a couple of things that (almost) ruined my holiday spirit.
This one is from Libby Copeland at The Washington Post, in an article oh-so-cleverly titled, From Thong to Thesis: Monica Lewinsky Flashes Her Intellect:

There are moments that make you question your fundamental assumptions about the world. One of them took place a few days ago, when news emerged that Monica Lewinsky had just graduated from the London School of Economics.
She did not!!
Lewinsky, 33, is known more for her audacious coquetry than for her intellectual heft, and the notion of her earning a master of science degree in social psychology at the prestigious London university is jarring, akin to finding a rip in the time-space continuum, or discovering that Kim Jong Il is a natural blond.

You know, cause she sucked dick. Which clearly is a mark of the intellectually impaired.
Another cringe-inducing moment came from an otherwise good article about the princess craze among young girls (though didn’t Salon already cover this two years ago?). From Peggy Orenstein in What’s Wrong With Cinderella?:

In the 1990s, third-wave feminists rebelled against their dour big sisters, “reclaiming� sexual objectification as a woman’s right — provided, of course, that it was on her own terms, that she was the one choosing to strip or wear a shirt that said “Porn Star� or make out with her best friend at a frat-house bash.

Wow. Could a more snarky (not to mention inaccurate) description of third-wave feminism be possible? Sometimes I wonder if it’s cluelessness or nastiness that gives way to this kind of writing about young feminism.
But one thing today did put me back in tip-top holiday shape. David Usher, who warned young men to “stay away from feminists and strippers,” thinks that Rutgers University–where I got my MA–is the center of “global feminist terrorism.” Day made.