When Someone Gets Pussy Whipped--the Pussy Does the Whipping, OK?

Over at LGM and all around the bloggosphere where I've been bumming metaphorical drinks like Walter Brennan in To Have and Have Not we are having the interminable discussion over whether something is, or is not, sexist and whether HRC is, or is not, a whiny bitch who plays the victim card like whiny bitches always do. The recent hysteria over whether MSNBC accusing Hillary of "pimping out" her daughter was sexist has rolled lots and lots of these issues into one hard, almost gum like ball. We find that young men, especially, don't realize that it is at all odd to accuse the children of important people of being whored out by their parents. Another thing we find out is that (some) men (I think they are young) don't realize that "pimp" doesn't mean "really shiny and applying primarily to cars" or that it can't "only be applied to black people." Just like the amazing discussion over whether "The claws out" refers to a metaphorically female gendered creature (why yes, hundreds of years of conventional usage is not thrown out by JonH's recent viewing of the X-men!) the amazing discussion of whether it is impermissible to accuse a mother of whoring out her daughter has now almost vanished in a yet more bizarre discussion of how the Clinton Campaign is losing by forcing MSNBC to apologize.

This is not new. In fact its so old its practically page one of the identity politics/GOP attack manual. But it seems to be a novel thought for many of our left wing blog commenters so let me break it down for you. When you are trying to do anything politically significant your enemies always try to trivialize what you are doing, smear you, and make you unpopular with the voters you are trying to appeal to. When you don't fight back--your enemies win. When you do fight back your enemies are to scroll down and pick their second choice fallback accusation which is that you are "playing the victim card" or that you are "whiny" or that you are resorting to "identity politics" because you "appealed for sympathy" or because you "used emotions" to get "voters to like you" because you pretended you were "being attacked" and "are an underdog." Groups that are particularly likely to be accused of impermissibly "playing on the voters sympathy" and "pretending to be victims?" Hm. Who could that be, I wonder? Could it be Native Americans, Gays, African Americans, Hispanics and that mysterious alien community that lives among us almost as though they were part of us: DA BITCHEZ? Why, yes. [by the way I know all this because I subscribe to the super secret GOP argumentation data base decoder called (shh) Mallard Fillmore]

So when HRC called out MSNBC the usual bunch of whiny ass titty babies who want Obama so bad they think they are running against Hillary instead of against an entrenched Republican media machine immiediatly got all up in our noses and began shouting "ohfergodsakes it wasn't sexist of Schuster to say Hillary was turning her daughter into a whore. Because "pimps" are always black men, at least in movies." Or they began complaining that complaining about shit makes you look weak, just like a woman. But there's no sexism involved in saying women are always weak crybabies because for gosh sakes anyone can see that Hillary is a woman and she's also a crybaby so its merely factual. And then they began muttering that for some reason that no one with two braincells can figure out that its a bad thing that Hillary forced MSNBC to apologize, finally, to a Democrat for their abysmal coverage of all Democrats when they libeled her and her daughter because...oh, I can't even figure out what model of politics this is.

So here it is, guys. In words of very few syllables. When someone gets pussy whipped, by a pussy, the pussy does the whipping, and gets the "whip hand" which (despite what Jon H may think about somethign that happened once in a comic book) is the *top hand.* So when Hillary Clinton's campaign got MSNBC to stop attacking her even for one moment that was a good thing for Brand Hillary. And I'll go a step further since people seem unable to grasp this very important point--what is good for brand hillary is good for brand democrat because we are identified, as a brand, with everything that happens to anyone with a (d) after their name.

aimai