Originally published on September 26, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal by Jenn Q. Public & Lori Ziganto ——— 1. Jessica Valenti’s Femisogynist Spirit: Rooting for and Rejoicing at Abortion for Convenience While leftist “feminists” sneer condescendingly at the idea of post-abortion syndrome, it does exist . And if they actually cared about women , they’d admit that fact. But, see, they can’t. [...]

Originally published on September 17, 2010 at David Horowitz’s NewsReal _____________ The inane self-congratulatory feel-goodery of pop feminism is captured perfectly in an old Onion headline: “ Women Now Empowered By Everything A Woman Does .” To the feminist Left, the obvious corollary is that everything that doesn’t empower a woman is oppressive, chauvinistic, and of course, sexist. And that’s exactly the ideological vampire being embraced by Christine O’Donnell supporters this week. Jeri Thompson leads the pack of those seduced by the politics of manufactured victimhood with her excoriation of Karl Rove, Sen. John Cornyn, and Delaware’s “blue-blooded patriarchies.” It’s not the timing of Rove’s criticisms she finds troubling; it isn’t that Cornyn and the NRSC arrived late to GOP Unity Hour lip syncing the words to “Kumbaya.” It’s that they offered their strategic assessment of a female candidate’s political baggage and electability: Funny, I don’t recall hearing similar talk from the likes of Mssrs. [...]