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Margaret Thatcher in 1986, seven years into her 12 year stint as Prime Minister. (photo: Sven Nackstrand/ Agence France)
Was reading this morning in the NYT a preview of the new movie about Margaret Thatcher starring Meryl Streep. Looks like Ms Streep will have to find room on her Oscar shelf for one more statue if the buzz about her performance is true. But what struck me most about the interview with Streep and the director, Phyllida Lloyd (the screenwriter is Abi Morgan, making this a very woman-created film, yay!), was the end:
“Ms. Lloyd said: “So did Margaret Thatcher [hated to be criticized]. But that’s understandable. She couldn’t show weakness. Imagine what the men would have said.” She added: “In parts of England now it’s a transgression even to consider her as a human being. She’s that monster woman, the she-devil. For me the point of the film was to find the human side.” And though hardly a Tory, she said she vividly recalled the moment when Mrs. Thatcher came to power. “Just as I remember not voting for her, I remember sitting in my room at university when the radio announced that she had been asked to form a government, and I went ‘Yes!’ It felt like one for our team.”
Ms. Streep nodded and said: “I did the same thing. We all thought if it can happen in England, class bound, socially rigid, homophobic — if they can elect a female leader over there, then it’s just seconds away in America.”
Oops! It’s been 32 YEARS since Thatcher rose to the office of Prime Minister in England. That’s not a few seconds ago Meryl; it’s actually One BILLION seconds ago, literally (36,556,926 x 32 = 1,009,821,632). We have been waiting a billion seconds because women like you and Ms Lloyd (and Ms Fey and Ms Moore) have not been able to escape the mindless misogyny of male-dominated liberal and progressive orthodoxy. The mind of the liberal man will always reach first for misogynistic hatred as a weapon against women with whom they disagree and who seem to have a shot at actually attaining power. Why? Because misogyny in our culture is as “natural” and acceptable as slut-shaming, worshipping Mad Men, and loathing Sarah Palin. Why? Because it WORKS.
Ms Lloyd points out that “In parts of England now it’s a transgression even to consider her [Thatcher] as a human being. She’s that monster woman, the she-devil.” Hmmm, sound familiar? (Sarah Palin is not a woman, but a cunt. Hillary Clinton is not a woman, but a big ole’ bitchety bitch. Michelle Bachmann is not a woman, but a crazed chipmunk. Michelle Obama is not a woman but a rabid gorilla (yep racism is the second weapon men will reach for against women with whom they disagree) etc etc etc)
I don’t know why it’s so hard for women to understand this simple concept. If you want a woman president (or senator or mayor or congresswoman) you have to VOTE for the darn women who are actually running for office. You have to give them money if you can, and volunteer time and support if you can. Here’s the hard part: You have to vote for women even if they are bitches, whores, nutjobs, monsters, lunatics, morons, retards, hysterical backstabbers, relentlessly ambitious soulless Stepford wife robots, and cunts. Because to the dudes who run the media and the world, that’s what they ALWAYS are.
UPDATE: I missed Uppity’s post yesterday about the 2 new scholarly studies that prove sexism is what doomed Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign. As Uppity says, duh! But it IS helpful that these studies were done in the first place AND that they are being reported on in mainstream media outlets. And yes, Tweety “Tingles” Matthews was the WORST.
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