K-Lo: "Charlotte Allen eviscerates women. I love it"

The Corner's Katherine Jean Lopez' reaction to Charlotte Allen's op/ed on the alleged intellectual inferiority of women...

Charlotte Allen   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

eviscerates women. I love it.

03/02 10:11 AM

Kind of says it all, doesn't it?

Comments

[Davis]

Odd, isn't it, that they seem to think, as Ann Coulter does, they they should not have the right to vote.

I guess the Post thinks that such misogynist crap is OK if written by a woman. I'm a man, and I was infuriated. Perhaps because I have four older sisters who beat feminism into me (figuratively, of course).

[cfrost]

Ms. Allen should go back to searching for her historical Jesus as she's clearly not equipped to grapple with biological subjects. Perhaps it's because of her wee feminine brain. Then again, here's the Republican one-man brain-trust and genius idea factory, Newt Gingrich, on the subject of gender and ability:

"If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength. I mean, some do, but they're relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets, you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn't matter, you know. These things are very real. On the other hand, if combat means being on an Aegis-class cruiser managing the computer controls for twelve ships and their rockets, a female may be again dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes."

Idiotic drivel of that sort is par for reactionaries. My question is: why is the Washington Post further rending it's tattered reputation by publishing something that wouldn't even be printed in a circa 1960 Playboy Magazine?

[K. Ron Silkwood]

K-Lo is central to Charlotte Allen's argument.

[aerdrie]

It seems K-Lo is an afficionado of JtR.

[Elana DMIBlog]

Basically this is all just a juvenile cry for attention on the writer's fault and just trolling for ratings on the Post's part. As for K-Lo she probably just wants to be applauded for being such an iconoclast. "See, I'm so smart I can hate my own kind, that's how smart I am". Aww K-Lo you sure are special indeed-- not at all like us other ladies who try to help out, you know our fellow men and women.
No K-Lo, going along with traditional anti-female narratives doesn't make you an iconoclast.

[mudkitty]

Charlotte Allen is her own best argument.

[Alex Stone-Tharp]

I find L-Lo's choice of language really disturbing. This kind of shit (both Allen's article and Lopez's violent imagery in her endorsement of it) would never fly if it were about ethnic or religious minorities in this country. You'd have public apologies, however forced, and somebody might rightly get fired.

[Pennant]

My general reaction to this kind of idiocy is "Hey lady, you really should chose whether you want to be a submissive or a dominatrix. Your words say submissive and your actions say dominant. However, most people are normal and don't care which is your preference, they just want you to leave them the hell alone."

[cfrost]

“I find L(K?)-Lo's choice of language really disturbing”

I thought it a bit odd myself, but I’m guessing she’s never butchered a hog or field-dressed a deer and isn’t, for instance, actually familiar with the arresting odor rushing from the body cavity of a hot carcass when cut open to be eviscerated. I don’t think she’s bloodthirsty, I think she’s just an idiot whose language is as sloppy, careless, and ill-informed as her thinking.

[JohnL]

Wait, didn't she get the note that Allen's piece was for fun? If Allen's piece was funny then Lopez' reaction makes no sense. Hmm, could it be because Lopez thinks it's serious? Because it was?

[Jennifer K]

If this was supposed to be satire, Ms. Allen has done a piss poor job of it. Jonathan Swift she ain't.

[Guest]

I've been reading and enjoying your blog for quite a while now. That being said, I don't think you should bother covering anything K-Lo says. The part of her that isn't an idiot is a disgusting sensationalist. Here, as always, it doesn't pay to feed the trolls.

[JohnPkc]

I want to second the comment by "Guest" and point out that commenting on idiotic postings on the net is a never-ending task. There are mountains of grist for that mill. The only time I become aware of the Corner is when I read about it on this blog or others.

[Vita Lusty]

To the Editor and to Ms. Allen:

I would like to know what about this article shown so big and bright that it deserved publication. I see that Allen is well aware of, what appears to me, outdated stereotypes. She is also still attributing quite a lot to some basic and inconclusive science about the relation of the size of one's brain to their intelligence. In Allen's world, our worth is based on how we drive a car and marginal IQ tests without addressing very dramatic studies on teachers' bias toward one gender over another, not to mention the confidence of parents, employers and the press still rubbing their eyes and shaking their heads at the idea of a female American president when the rest of the world is already way ahead of us.

She has ignored studies on how women are more effective as managers, more communicative . . . she has neglected studies on child-rearing and education. Then again, what is the world outside of Allen's TIVO but romance novels, snacking and the theatrical release of 'Sex in the City.' This exercise of self-loathing and undermining one's peers is simply a symptom of laziness and fear. Women who cower in the face of competition . . . what would Allen do if women grew in leadership roles, becoming more prominent public figures and speakers and scientists, my God, she would have to put down the Lady Fingers, get off her fat ass and do something.

I will admit, as a woman there is less pressure to succeed. When you make a mistake, it is often forgiven if not anticipated by a supervisor. However, when you reinvent yourself, when you discover something new, when you really contribute- that feeling trumps all comfort that comes with acceptance in the face of failure.

Allen feels what a number of women feel, anxiety from what this means about them. They will be asked to participate when all they have been expected to do, up to this point, is look pretty and purr under the touch of their male counter-part. How will they handle this?

I am very excited to see how they will. Succeed or die Ms. Allen.