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Feminists OK With Women in Panties Selling Beer. Pro-Life Ads? Not So Much

Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 60 Comments

Sarah Palin nailed the National Organization of Women for trying to prevent CBS from airing a pro-life ad during the Super Bowl:

“My message to these groups who are inexplicably offended by a pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life message airing during the Super Bowl: please concentrate on empowering women, help with efforts to prevent unexpected pregnancies, stay consistent with your message that for too long women have been made to feel like sex objects in our ‘modern’ culture and that we can expect better in 2010.”

The man-haters whine that they’ve been misunderstood:

NOW President Terry O’Neill said that Palin is “missing our point.”
“The goal of the Focus on the Family ad is not to empower women. It’s to create a climate in which Roe v. Wade can be overturned,” O’Neill said. “There are always going to be women who need abortions. In this country, one in three women will have an abortion.”
“Focus on the Family has cynically set it up so they can say anyone who disagrees with airing this ad is disrespecting one woman and her choice. NOW respects every woman’s right to plan her own family and insists our laws do the same,” said O’Neill.

Feminists against cynical manipulation of issues? That would be something new.

The ad in question shows Tim Tebow and his mother discussing the medical difficulties of her pregnancy, during which she was urged to abort the future University of Florida quarterback – a decision that would have spared her child the unbearable pain of losing the SEC title to Alabama. 

OK, you knew I had to take that shot at Tebow. (Roll Tide!) But seriously, while the man-haters at NOW tried to prevent the Tebow ad from being shown during the Super Bowl, they haven’t mounted a similar protest against Budweiser ads featuring scantily-clad babes. Chris Stirewalt of the Washington Examiner explains:

In terms of Super Bowl ads, “sexist” is code for “anti-abortion.” But “sexist” does not apply to parading women around in their underpants to sell beer.
Got it?

Yeah, but real men don’t need women parading around in underpants to sell them beer. NTTAWWT.

UPDATE: Liberals have developed a brilliant new communication strategy: Twitter trolls. They lurk on the #TCOT (Top Conservatives On Twitter) feed, then post derogatory responses. After I Tweeted this post, one such creature responded by calling me “Bullshit artist” and ”Douchebag,” before Tweeting this:

 I triple dog dare you to print my comment on your blog, Mr. Dishonest Fuckwit. :)

The comment (submitted with a bogus e-mail address, of course) was approved:

As usual conservatives like yourself and Palin can’t even argue the issue at hand. You develop a strawman . . . and then present that to your ignorant followers as fact so that they never face the inherent nihilism of conservative “values.”

Exit question: Does feminism deprive people of a sense of humor, or are humorless people just naturally attracted to feminism?

UPDATE II: In the comments, Amanda Read links to her post on this subject, featuring video of Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest debating Erin Matson of the National Organization for Women Parading Around in Their Underpants:

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  • http://www.amandaread.com Amanda Read

    I know, this debate is crazy!
    http://amandaread.com/?p=1379

    ~Amanda~

  • http://www.amandaread.com Amanda Read

    I know, this debate is crazy!
    http://amandaread.com/?p=1379

    ~Amanda~

  • Bullshitalert

    What a fabrication. Feminists regularly call out advertising as sexist, especially SB advertising. The issue here is that the Superbowl previously refused advertising from a pro-choice group.

    As usual conservatives like yourself and Palin can’t even argue the issue at hand. You develop a strawman (in this case that feminists don’t protest sexist advertising) and then present that to your ignorant followers as fact so that they never face the inherent nihilism of conservative “values.”

  • Bullshitalert

    What a fabrication. Feminists regularly call out advertising as sexist, especially SB advertising. The issue here is that the Superbowl previously refused advertising from a pro-choice group.

    As usual conservatives like yourself and Palin can’t even argue the issue at hand. You develop a strawman (in this case that feminists don’t protest sexist advertising) and then present that to your ignorant followers as fact so that they never face the inherent nihilism of conservative “values.”

  • Bullshitalert

    What a fabrication. Feminists regularly call out advertising as sexist, especially SB advertising. The issue here is that the Superbowl previously refused advertising from a pro-choice group.

    As usual conservatives like yourself and Palin can’t even argue the issue at hand. You develop a strawman (in this case that feminists don’t protest sexist advertising) and then present that to your ignorant followers as fact so that they never face the inherent nihilism of conservative “values.”

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  • http://powip.com Dan Collins

    Objectification is bad! Sometimes.

  • http://powip.com Dan Collins

    Objectification is bad! Sometimes.

  • http://powip.com Dan Collins

    Objectification is bad! Sometimes.

  • http://the-classic-liberal.com/ theCL

    Yeah, but real men don’t need women parading around in underpants to sell them beer.

    Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey … Shhhhhh … You don’t need to let that cat out of the bag.

  • http://the-classic-liberal.com/ theCL

    Yeah, but real men don’t need women parading around in underpants to sell them beer.

    Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey … Shhhhhh … You don’t need to let that cat out of the bag.

  • http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com Red

    “There are always going to be women who need abortions.” Like a hole in the head.

  • http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com Red

    “There are always going to be women who need abortions.” Like a hole in the head.

  • http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com Red

    “There are always going to be women who need abortions.” Like a hole in the head.

  • http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com Red

    “There are always going to be women who need abortions.” Like a hole in the head.

  • EdFab

    NTTAWWT – Not That They Aren’t Wanting (to) Watch That?

  • EdFab

    NTTAWWT – Not That They Aren’t Wanting (to) Watch That?

  • EdFab

    NTTAWWT – Not That They Aren’t Wanting (to) Watch That?

  • EdFab

    NTTAWWT – Not That They Aren’t Wanting (to) Watch That?

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Does feminism deprive people of a sense of humor, or are humorless people just naturally attracted to feminism?

    The better question is: Why are unattractive women drawn to feminism?

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Does feminism deprive people of a sense of humor, or are humorless people just naturally attracted to feminism?

    The better question is: Why are unattractive women drawn to feminism?

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Does feminism deprive people of a sense of humor, or are humorless people just naturally attracted to feminism?

    The better question is: Why are unattractive women drawn to feminism?

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Does feminism deprive people of a sense of humor, or are humorless people just naturally attracted to feminism?

    The better question is: Why are unattractive women drawn to feminism?

  • http://www.kloognome.com Rob Crawford

    Did a bunch of lefties all get the same “word of the day” calendar? I ask because the word “nihilism” is popping up a lot in their rhetoric.

    What herd animals.

  • http://www.kloognome.com Rob Crawford

    Did a bunch of lefties all get the same “word of the day” calendar? I ask because the word “nihilism” is popping up a lot in their rhetoric.

    What herd animals.

  • http://www.kloognome.com Rob Crawford

    Did a bunch of lefties all get the same “word of the day” calendar? I ask because the word “nihilism” is popping up a lot in their rhetoric.

    What herd animals.

  • http://www.kloognome.com Rob Crawford

    Did a bunch of lefties all get the same “word of the day” calendar? I ask because the word “nihilism” is popping up a lot in their rhetoric.

    What herd animals.

  • Fantom

    ““There are always going to be women who need abortions.”

    Talk about your straw man argument. We have laws against murder, yet we still are “always going to have those who need to murder”. I see no need to legalize the murder of babies in the womb based on such logic.

  • Fantom

    ““There are always going to be women who need abortions.”

    Talk about your straw man argument. We have laws against murder, yet we still are “always going to have those who need to murder”. I see no need to legalize the murder of babies in the womb based on such logic.

  • Fantom

    ““There are always going to be women who need abortions.”

    Talk about your straw man argument. We have laws against murder, yet we still are “always going to have those who need to murder”. I see no need to legalize the murder of babies in the womb based on such logic.

  • Fantom

    ““There are always going to be women who need abortions.”

    Talk about your straw man argument. We have laws against murder, yet we still are “always going to have those who need to murder”. I see no need to legalize the murder of babies in the womb based on such logic.

  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

    “The goal of the Focus on the Family ad is not to empower women. It’s to create a climate in which Roe v. Wade can be overturned,” O’Neill said. “There are always going to be women who need abortions. In this country, one in three women will have an abortion.”

    That one in three women will have abortions doesn’t mean that one in three will need them.

    In 2010, “needing” an abortion is almost an oxymoron. Is there really so little birth control and government protections for pregnant and parenting women that one in three women have to kill their unborn children? Give me a break.

  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

    “The goal of the Focus on the Family ad is not to empower women. It’s to create a climate in which Roe v. Wade can be overturned,” O’Neill said. “There are always going to be women who need abortions. In this country, one in three women will have an abortion.”

    That one in three women will have abortions doesn’t mean that one in three will need them.

    In 2010, “needing” an abortion is almost an oxymoron. Is there really so little birth control and government protections for pregnant and parenting women that one in three women have to kill their unborn children? Give me a break.

  • http://prairiecat55kc.wordpress.com/ kc duffy

    Jealousy and bitterness can make the prettiest woman into an ugly hag. If you don’t believe me, check this post at Bob’s Bites – http://robertd.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/party-affiliation-its-all-in-the-mug/#comment-1550

    Poor darlins got their panties in a bunch, which won’t sell enough beer to make ‘em even coyote ugly.

  • http://prairiecat55kc.wordpress.com/ kc duffy

    Jealousy and bitterness can make the prettiest woman into an ugly hag. If you don’t believe me, check this post at Bob’s Bites – http://robertd.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/party-affiliation-its-all-in-the-mug/#comment-1550

    Poor darlins got their panties in a bunch, which won’t sell enough beer to make ‘em even coyote ugly.

  • http://dixienet.org/rebellion/rebellion.html Old Rebel

    Does feminism deprive people of a sense of humor, or are humorless people just naturally attracted to feminism?

    The answer is: Yes. Both statements are true.

  • http://dixienet.org/rebellion/rebellion.html Old Rebel

    Does feminism deprive people of a sense of humor, or are humorless people just naturally attracted to feminism?

    The answer is: Yes. Both statements are true.

  • http://threebeerslater.blogspot.com FUZZY THEISBICH, Ph.D.

    “Exit question: Does feminism deprive people of a sense of humor, or are humorless people just naturally attracted to feminism?”

    THAT’S NOT FUNNY!

  • http://threebeerslater.blogspot.com FUZZY THEISBICH, Ph.D.

    “Exit question: Does feminism deprive people of a sense of humor, or are humorless people just naturally attracted to feminism?”

    THAT’S NOT FUNNY!

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com Bob Belvedere

    What Dan Collins and TheCL said.

    Oh…and: Awarded the THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY at:
    The Camp Of The Saints

  • http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com Bob Belvedere

    What Dan Collins and TheCL said.

    Oh…and: Awarded the THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY at:
    The Camp Of The Saints

  • http://www.sherryantonettiwrites.blogspot.com Sherry

    Inspired. 30 seconds for one non abort is too threatening.

  • http://www.sherryantonettiwrites.blogspot.com Sherry

    Inspired. 30 seconds for one non abort is too threatening.

  • Miss Sharon

    The overreaction to their idea of what the 30 message is…. is quite telling.

    Those tolerant, compassionate, humorless libs…they keep living up to their standards;-)

    I agree with IMAO-

    They should counter Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad with an ad of a woman saying how awesome her life turned out because of an abortion. Optimally, you’d want someone who was aborted saying how happy he was to be aborted, but that’s kinda hard.

    More at- http://www.imao.us/index.php/2010/01/random-thoughts-175/

  • Miss Sharon

    The overreaction to their idea of what the 30 message is…. is quite telling.

    Those tolerant, compassionate, humorless libs…they keep living up to their standards;-)

    I agree with IMAO-

    They should counter Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad with an ad of a woman saying how awesome her life turned out because of an abortion. Optimally, you’d want someone who was aborted saying how happy he was to be aborted, but that’s kinda hard.

    More at- http://www.imao.us/index.php/2010/01/random-thoughts-175/

  • Miss Sharon

    Hmmmm 30 second message! Can’t find the edit button!

  • David

    Rob Crawford,

    I’ve noticed that too.

    Funny thing is, I don’t think it means what they think it means…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

  • Miss Sharon

    Hmmmm 30 second message! Can’t find the edit button!

  • David

    Rob Crawford,

    I’ve noticed that too.

    Funny thing is, I don’t think it means what they think it means…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

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