Did you know that it's physically impossible for a woman to be aggressive while possessing a vagina?

Apparently it is impossible to make a coherent argument while also being involved with Concerned Women for America.

Natch, manda. if you analyze any of their arguments, it all comes back to "Unisex bathrooms! Oh noes!21!11!!"

CWA are the Queens of Missing the Point.

ALL HAIL!

Dude, I'd take all that shit as a compliment. Fuck them.

"They advocate for the most radical of leftist positions,"

Hasn't that been called "pinko" in the US for years?

I totally did not know, before they told me, that one could not be lady-like and want crazy things like the US to pull out of Iraq. I did not realize that peace was such a butch quality. What the hell?

Speaking of women in politics...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6245112.stm

If you're going to wear pink and ask for peace then you have to do it nicely and quietly or else no one will listen to you.

If you're not, then you need to wear a non feminine color such as blue or green or even red, so that we'll know you're truly angry. [/sarcasm]

Did you know that it's physically impossible for a woman to be aggressive while possessing a vagina?

Solution: "detachable pussy", suggested by Wanda Sykes!

I did not realize that peace was such a butch quality.

Only if you're hussy enough to speak up about it.

Ladies Against Women is always good for a laugh.

Does anyone know when/why pink became known as an effeminate color? Seriously, I've always wondered about that.

Hahahaha! Way to embarrass yourselves, CWA!

Quinn: Take a look here.

Quinn, I'd say the episode of The SImpsons when Homer accidentally wore a pink shirt to work & got institutionalized.

they say our policies are associated with men, but maybe i missed the memo about peace becoming a man's issue- because i thought we were still at war...
and on the topic of cwa supporting impeachment- i didn't realize that it was more ladylike to talk about blowjobs than about torture and illegal wiretapping. my bad. maybe i missed that memo too.

Aww, c'mon, ANn. This was worth an F-bomb for CWA, wasn't it?

Okay, I'll do it. CWA? Fuck. You.

"Does anyone know when/why pink became known as an effeminate color?"

I don't know... but what I do know is that it wasn't always that way. In the early days of the baby gender color-coding system (Victorian days, if memory serves), it was the other way around -- pink was considered a strong, aggressive color and was used for boys, and blue was considered gentle and calm, and was used for girls.

I don't know when or why it got switched. I just think it's hilarious that it did. And that people act as if this color-coding of gender were a biological imperative or the word of God or something.

And on the actual topic: My head is spinning. Between this and the National Porn Sunday Elephant, I can't tell the difference between reality and parody any more.

I stand corrected. Looks from the link like the early days of "pink for boys, blue for girls" color coding started in Edwardian times, not Victorian. And I didn't realize the switch happened so recently. Makes the fervor with which people are attached to it even weirder.

"They advocate for the most radical of leftist positions."

The "most radical of leftist positions" being the view that a man who has committed and facilitated enough crimes in 7 years to get him multiple life sentences in Massachusetts and a whole pharmacy worth of lethal injections in Texas should lose his job?

I always thought that the law-and-order stuff was a right wing thing.

(One might also mention that this "radical" position is in line with up to 67% of the population, if one believes the polling data)

Well, really, it's hardly fair to lump all pinks into one basket. Among my friends at least, there is a shade commonly called "dyke pink" so called because the intense, florescent magenta shade (hopefully you know the one) is as far from the "wilting flower" idea as one can get and still have pink. It's an aggressive shade, it's not ashamed, and it's hard to hide. Kind of like some better-quality women.

Favourite quote:

"They cloak it all in a soft pink covering, when underneath they are hard as nails,"

Code Pink: The M&Ms of the anti-war movement.

hmm. I've never been a "proper" lady, I'm not demure, submissive, sweet, all of that, and I love to wear pink. I guess I'm a walking oxymoron. Boo fucking hoo.

"They cloak it all in a soft pink covering, when underneath they are hard as nails," [Crouse] said.

HA HA! That's so funny, because that's what I generally think of CWA, IWF, and all those other Republican women's groups who bust their asses to ensure the oppression of /other/ women.

shit. You mean all this time I was supposed to match my opinions and thoughts to my clothes? Why did my mother never mention this to me?

oh yeah, because she wasn't a superficial nincompoop whose slanted view of reality required her to issue such idiotic missives as this. Why are we even paying attention to these morons?

Side note: picture these pink ladies hiding in the giant blue elephant mentioned earlier. Most inane trojan horse ever, hmm?

(I meant the CWA ladies in pink, not code pink.rock on, code pink.)

Woah. CWA didn't seriously just call impeachment 'the most radical of leftist positions,' did it? Oh, lordy.

Impeachment is reformist through and through. Impeachment means, 'gosh, this system is fine! If only someone else were in power things would be better.'

Sigh.

Of course, if Code Pink weren't soft and genteel (assuming this is, in fact, the case), CWA would be raising the stereotype of hairy-legged butch lesbians, so their criticism is irrelevant as well as incoherent.

And "we don't have a position on the war but we're not anti-war" seems to be a position on the war.

"Quinn: Take a look here."

You know, I've become very suspicious of that Internet meme. I first came across it a couple of years ago and accepted it without a second thought. Now I'm suspicious because it's so attractive--as is a lot of similar folklore that turns out to be false.

Anyway, web searching doesn't turn up much except numerous references to the historical clothing blog that is defunct and its one entry on this and its mention of the Ladies Home Journal and another citation from the same era. Note that the same blog entry, as quoted by many sites, also mentioned a counter-example in the form of a Little Women quote from about twenty years earlier, IIRC.

Then, in that answers.com thread you linked to, a commenter claims that he acquired that copy of LHJ and couldn't find the cited article. Who knows, though, he/she is just some guy/gal. As was the original blog author.

However, your link contains citations to many other sources I've not seen before, so I'll have to check those out. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised either way--if it's true or if it's false.

I just got very suspicious from the combination of its character as a very tasty little counterintuitive tidbit and that it doesn't seem well documented.