Newt Gingrich, natural woman?
Does anybody understand this piece?
Newt Gingrich, natural woman: I know just what the fading candidate feels like. By S.E. Cupp, whoever the hell she is.
Obviously, I get that it’s snark, and that she’s making fun of Gingrich using female stereotypes. Got it. But…why? I’m not asking from a feminist perspective, as it were; I think we could all do the analytical rundown on this in our sleep. I just feel like I’ve missed some kind of setup for the joke. Is there already a meme that Gingrich is effeminate? Is this already in the water? Or is this essay just straight out of the blue?
13 Responses to “Newt Gingrich, natural woman?”
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Ali says:
I’m not sure what the author was going for but I thought this was very funny. What would it look like if we applied sexist stereotypes to our male candidates? Because if Michelle Bachmann had acted like Newt pundits would surely be telling her to go home and take a bubble bath. S.E. Cupps is a young popular conservative columnist. The last time I read her was over a year ago when she wrote about the sexism of Tina Fey.
January 17th, 2012 at 10:04 am EST -
Sweet Sue says:
You can call Newt Gingrich a lot of things but I resent like hell anyone who calls him womanly.
S. E. Cupp is a right winger who thinks it’s cutting edge to use her initials instead of her first and middle name.
See, she’s a conservative and a hipster!
Yak, she reminds me of Kennedy on MTV of yesteryear. -
scott says:
This is her shtick. She aspires to be the Dowd of the right, so everything is grist for her particular mill, whether or not it actually is.
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myiq2xu says:
It’s an old tactic disguised as snark. What’s one of the most effective ways to attack a male candidate?
“Feminize” him.
IOW – She’s saying he’s a b*tch.
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Carmonn says:
I don’t think it’s got much to do with Newt’s image. Cupp’s pretty fixated on the idea that feminism is like, so yesterday, and feminists and (liberal) female politicians are desperately playing hysterical victims and inventing phony insults to react against in their unnecessary crusade to destroy men, making it impossible for them to be taken seriously. Straight-up channeling Maureen Dowd, not only is comparing Newt to these awful women maximum humiliation, but she also gets to use all those snappy, relevant pop culture and high school mean girl references. Score!
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Violet Socks says:
This is her shtick. She aspires to be the Dowd of the right, so everything is grist for her particular mill, whether or not it actually is.
Ah, kind of the way everything Maureen Dowd writes is about Bill Clinton’s dick.
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Three Wickets says:
Bizarre. Not sure what she was going for, but to me she sounds either young (as in still maturing into full adulthood) or drunk.
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Sameol says:
How badly do you want to know? There’s video of her discussing the piece with Glenn Beck.
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Violet Socks says:
No, no, no, I don’t ever want to see Glenn Beck.
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tinfoil hattie says:
What a stupid, hateful piece. All the stereotypes about women, written in the vernacular of a “gay man.” Ha, ha, ha.
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gxm17 says:
Yikes. That was ugly. Ugly and hateful. I can’t imagine the self-hatred that must go into producing crap like that much less publish it. It’s as bad as that “Obama’s critics are dumb” magazine cover. The fourth estate has completely jumped the shark and is now, officially, in the toilet.
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Ciccina says:
I could only read half, but I think she was doing a riff on the Republican primary contestants as “Mean Girls.” Stupid stuff.
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Tarsha Landazuri says:
The absurd notion that liberals promote a “culture of victimization” is one of the clearest examples of right-wing projection I’ve ever witnessed. The ENTIRE conservative movement is built on feeling sorry for themselves and claiming they’re the victims of nefarious forces (the “liberal media”, “liberal academia”, “liberal teacher’s unions”, “liberal PC culture”, “liberal secularists”, the “liberal ACLU, etc.) Noticing a pattern here? The left is far, far weaker than the right in America, and yet, they’ve built up this all-purpose liberal bogeyman / straw-man to blame all its failures on.
