When Kim Gandy endorsed Obama just after a woman was named VP on the other sode, her attacks on the woman were so shrill, that even Steven Colbert had to notice
The Colbert Report: Sarah Palin is a Dude
The National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy announces which candidate they’re endorsing, and to Stephen’s surprise, it’s not Sarah Palin.
If NOW is for women, and they’re not supporting Palin, it must mean she has junk downtown. Is Stephen the only one shocked that NOW isn’t supporting Palin?
What surprised me however in looking at that endorsement was the contention that they supported Hillary in the primary.
I have not noticed NOW at all in the primaries – and I looked…When the “cunts” and the “bitches” and the legs crossing were on the airwaves, I don’t remember a Kim Gandy
The first time I even heard of Gandy’s name was after the primaries
when PUMAs brought up the sexism, she finally spoke up:
“NOW’s president, Kim Gandy, said her members would remain alert: “We’re going to keep watching because we think Michelle Obama will be the recipient of the same kind of attacks that Hillary was.”
REMAIN alert? ARE YOU F-ING KIDDING ME?
In the year when two women run for the highest office in this country, NOW distinguished itself in one way: being fodder for great jokes.
Take for instance
NOW and LATER
by myiq2xu at the Confluence:
change the name of the organization to “LATER” which stands for “Ladies After True Equal Rights.” Just imagine the chants at tea parties:
What do we want?
EQUAL RIGHTS!
When will we get them?
LATER!
And for ll this work on behalf of…herself, Kim wants payback. She wants to be Director of
the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor. (I guess she wasn’t all that successful with the creation of a cabinet level post for herself)
I have been saving this graphic wondering if I’ll ever have cause to post it – but for Gandy’s audacity in betraying all women and going for the reward, I am instituting the WOMEN ARE DICKS AWARD . Congratulations, Kim Gandy – you are the first recipient
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Update
Since this post is getting a lot of traffic – I don’t know where from, I want to say that since Terry O’Neill, I am a NOW member once again and have high hopes for its direction.
The offending graphic stays as it represents my feelings about women who jump on another woman – feminist or not – with sexist attacks, monkeying the men they are trying to ingratiate themselves to.
15 comments
February 8, 2009 at 12:19 pm
angienc2
OMG — that graphic is disgusting! EWW — why’d you do that to me edge!!!
February 8, 2009 at 12:36 pm
edgeoforever
I have been keeping that hidden for months – until Gandy just asked for it!
February 8, 2009 at 1:27 pm
DeniseVB
I haven’t been a supporter of NOW since they informed SAHM’s they were failures as women. Seems to me they haven’t changed since the 70′s, how progressive for women ….not.
Until they remain nonpartisan and support women like Hillary and Sarah, as well as the SAHM, then they can STFU ! Meh.
February 8, 2009 at 2:11 pm
pumabroad
NOW was very slow to endorse HRC in the primaries and I wondered why. NOW endorsed an all-male ticket for the first time in their history and I wondered why. Now I know why! Selling out the women of our country who she was supposed to represent is why.
February 8, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Cate
Yes, NOW underwent a radical shift in the 70′s where the main focus became Lesbian rights. The brilliant woman who started the movement, Betty Friedan, was the first to be ‘thrown under the bus’ after the entire organization was taken over by Lesbians. I have asked myself today why I have continued to support NOW. I guess it was my misguided belief they were fighting for CHOICE and ALL women’s rights – but the truth is all they care about is Lesbians. In fact, your post just gave me the push I needed to cancel my monthly donation that I started in 2004. Yeah, the National Organization of Lesbian Women can go fuck themselves.
February 8, 2009 at 8:09 pm
edgeoforever
Cate
Going fr Obama certainly wouldn’t be in the interests of even this smaller base – if this were the case. betrayal either way.
February 8, 2009 at 8:53 pm
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February 9, 2009 at 12:18 am
Grail Guardian
Cate,
There are plenty of lesbians that don’t support NOW at all. In fact, I think it was the opposite that happened; NOW became a one-issue organization (abortion rights), one that didn’t interest lesbians or women that were responsible with their uteruses. NOW became the organization for sexually irresponsible girls, not mature women.
February 9, 2009 at 1:36 am
insightanalytical
That is one of the most horrible graphics I have EVER seen!!!!
February 9, 2009 at 5:43 am
edgeoforever
@ insight
I totally agree with you! Just thought it fits one of the most horrible people I knew of.
February 9, 2009 at 2:05 am
Woman Voter
With the treatment of Palin, it is clear that NOW is a Democratic ONLY woMENZ organization and when they supported Obama, they made it clear they are FeMANists.
The patriarchy continues unabated, but we got some still yelling HOPE ? Go figure!
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