Prominent feminist blogger’s identity revealed!

Say it with me now, “ANN FRIEDMAN.”
Former Ms. magazine editor Elaine Lafferty has been working as a consultant on the McCain campaign (yes, seriously), and has a bone to pick with feminists who dare to criticize Sarah Palin.

For the sin of being a Christian personally opposed to abortion, Palin is being pilloried by the inside-the-Beltway Democrat feminist establishment. (Yes, she is anti-abortion. And yes, instead of buying organic New Zealand lamb at Whole Foods, she joins other Alaskans in hunting for food.[…])
…[L]ike many other Democrats, including Lynn Rothschild, I’m tired of the Democratic Party taking women for granted. I also happen to believe Sarah Palin supports women’s rights, deeply and passionately.

M-kay, whatever floats your boat I guess. Never mind that her record indicates quite a different story. But here’s the kicker:

Last month a prominent feminist blogger, echoing that sensibility, declared that the media was wrongly buying into the false idea that Palin was a feminist. Why? Well, just because she said she was a feminist, because she supported women’s rights and opportunities, equal pay, Title IV–that was just “empty rhetoric,” they said. At least the blogger didn’t go as far as NOW’s Kim Gandy and declare that Palin was not a woman. Bottom line: you are not a feminist until we say you are. (Emphasis mine)

“Empty rhetoric,” hmm? That sounds familiar. The anonymous “prominent feminist blogger” is our own Ann Friedman! But it seems that naming Ann is beneath Lafferty – as is bothering to engage with her in-depth look at how Palin’s rhetoric does not match her record. Making women invisible: Now that’s feminist!
Is it really so hard to name the person whose opinion you’re (limply) arguing against? Ann Friedman. Check it out, I can even do it in all sorts of different ways:
Ann Friedman. Feministing. Ann Friedman, Feministing. Ann Friedman of Feministing.
It’s like a typing miracle! Say it together, folks: Ann Friedman.