Paula demands accountability:
You’re such a class act, Vox. Calling a wife and mother of two a name referencing a Vietnamese hooker. So classy. Such impeccable logic, too. Oh, she lied. So my calling her a name referencing a Vietnamese hooker is justifiable.
You hold views that women are inherently of equal worth to me, yet different (emotionally, biologically, psychologically). I assume because of this view, you also believe that women ought to have a different sort of respect/treatment.
A real gentleman would not have ever ridiculed a woman the way you did Michelle Malkin. She is, indeed, unaccountable, a horrible historian, and a fraud–but to refer to her as Me-So? Besides the prostitute bit, it also attacks her ethnicity.
Why did you think it was necessary to do this?
Paula has the timing backwards, so her questioning of my “impeccable logic” is not applicable. I labled Ms Malkin as “Me So Michelle” long before she lied on the Baltimore radio station about having answered my questions regarding her book. I gave her a nickname implying that she was an Asian prostitute because it is my firmly held belief that she is among the worst of the media whores, trailing only Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera.
It’s called a metaphor, and this is a particularly apt one, being doubly applicable and spiced with a dash of alliteration, no less. And as long as we’re on the subject of metaphors, I should note that a gentleman is not supposed to treat a whore like a lady, he is merely expected to pay her according to the services rendered.
Her nickname is not necessary, any more than it was necessary to label Mr. O’Reilly “Brave Sir William” and imply that he lacked basic male equipment. I did it for the same reason I do most things; it amused me. And I don’t believe that women who want to play on an equal playing field deserve special treatment or respect; it is only those who believe that women are too weak to play a man’s game that whine about how someone called poor wittle Me-So a Mean Name or made her cwy on TV. Please.
At the very beginning of my brief and inglorious football career, a girl showed up at first practice. She was big, outweighed me by at least 15 pounds and was very outspoken about how tough she was. The first time one of the linebackers hit her in a tackling drill, he hit her hard and smashed her into the ground. She started crying and walked off the field, never to return. I have seen this sort of thing happen time and time again, in sports, in the office and in the blogosphere.
If you can’t take it, then don’t dish it out. If you want respect, then earn it through your actions. It’s that simple. As for class, when have I ever made any claim to that? My natural inclination is cruel and vulgar arrogance; if I happen to be occasionally able to surmount it, that is through the grace of God and the civilizing influence of Spacebunny.
I shall await with interest Paula’s explanation of how referring to an Asian woman as an Asian is an attack on her ethnicity. It is always possible, I suppose, that she subscribes to a belief that Phillipinos are intrinsically superior to Vietnamese, or that all Asian women are prostitutes.