Another Blow Against Toxic Male Chauvinist Patriarchy

It’s time for a Bronx cheer-- this time to express our extreme gratitude to Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez. You should be breathing and sleeping easier this morning. Sonmez has struck a blow for women’s rights, a blow against the white male supremacist toxic patriarchy. Yippee.

Eagle-eyed Sonmez, who apparently has nothing better to do than to scour her colleagues’ Twitter feeds, discovered, in the feed of one David Weigel, a thoroughly grotesque appallingly awful horrifying misogynist tweet. If it had been allowed to stand, it would have set women’s rights back a millennium or two.

The tweet said this:

Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual.

Now, Sonmez, apparently the self-appointed humorless scold-- there’s one in every newsroom-- was grossly offended. She was not going to stand for it. She was not going to take it sitting down. So, she replied, in very stern language:

Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!

An immediate solution to her anguish suggests itself, but we will not go there. 

Of course, had it not been for Sonmez, the tweet would have gone largely unnoticed. But, one imagines, without possessing any inside knowledge, that Sonmez wanted to demonstrate a point made by the late Christopher Hitchens, point that aroused even more ire than did the Weigel tweet-- namely that women do not have a very well-developed sense of humor.

As for striking a blow against patriarchy, the Sonmez intervention must count among the great moments in the ongoing struggle against toxic white male chauvinist oppression. We propose that someone put up a plaque in the Feminist Hall of Flames, and place it right next to the plaque dedicated to the nation’s leading feminist heroine.

While Sonmez merely made women look like humorless scolds, she had a ways to go before she attained the glory that surrounded the nation's leading feminist.

That would be, the great Hillary Clinton, unabashed champion of women’s rights, the nation’s leading enabler of sexual harassment, a notable rape apologist. Consider this great moment in the history of the rebellion against patriarchy. In the course of her duties as Secretary of State-- whatever was she doing in that job?-- traveled to Egypt in July of 2o12 to celebrate the election of one Mohamed Morsi as president of that country.

Given that Morsi was an official with the Muslim Brotherhood and given that the Brotherhood had notably favored honor killing, wife beating and spousal rape-- you can understand why Hillary would want to celebrate his election.

Besides, to put some icing on the cake, one element in the Brotherhood’s voter outreach during the election campaign consisted in sending mobile infirmary vans into the poor neighborhoods of Cairo in order to allow parents to genitally mutilate their 12-year-old daughters, without having to suffer the indignity of sending them to a clinic or a hospital.

Another blow for women’s rights. Now, along with the great Hillary Clinton, champion of women, unwavering opponent of patriarchal oppression of women, we can glorify and bow down to Felicia Sonmez for drawing our attention to her own tedious inadequacies, and her wish to censor humorous tweets that she does not find especially funny. If feminists want to be taken seriously, and if they want to be respected for their minds, they should start by learning how to think.