Okay, This Is Going Pretty Well, Knock On Wood

By the way, I accidentally omitted the title of that Islam-related article. It was called "Disarmng The False-Guilt Bomb." And now to share what was the very _next_ "Empowered For Freedom" column that I displayed on "Anti-Nonsense Alerts." This one had first been written, as I recall, in autumn of 2005.

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PREEE-SENTING THE _VERY_ FIRST
STRONG AND AGGRESSIVE WOMAN
_EVER_ SEEN !!


Forty or more years ago, the British TV series "The Avengers"
helped audiences get used to the idea of women who could fight
physically with men and win. The audiences did get used to it;
after all, they had already seen Wonder Woman comics for years,
and those who followed samurai movies had seen deadly swordswomen
on the screen. By the time "The Bionic Woman" and "Charlie's Angels"
were created, popular culture had almost forgotten that there was
ever a time when warrior women were not regarded as commonplace.

Audiences got used to it just fine. But scriptwriters could not get used to the fact that audiences had gotten used to it. They could not bear to acknowledge that the novelty had already passed. So they kept on trumpeting THE VERY FIRST powerful woman...over and over and over and over. The patriarchal straw man had to keep getting knocked down again and again, with each time the "first" time.

Sigourney Weaver in the "Alien" movies was a bold, innovative, unique, daring new
character: a woman who could fight her own battles! Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a bold, innovative, unique, daring new character: a woman who could fight her own battles! Xena the Warrior Princess was a bold, innovative, unique, daring new
character: a woman who could fight her own battles! Demi Moore in "G.I. Jane" was a bold, innovative, unique, daring new character: a woman who could fight her own battles! Claudia Christian's character on "Babylon 5" was a bold, innovative, unique, daring new character: a woman who could fight her own battles! The "Matrix" heroine Trinity was a bold, innovative, unique, daring new character: a woman who
could fight her own battles! Halle Berry as Catwoman was a bold, innovative, unique, daring new character: a woman who could fight her own battles! Milla Jovovich's character in the "Resident Evil" films was a bold, innovative, unique, daring new character: a woman who could fight her own battles! Aeryn Sun of the "Farscape" series was a bold, innovative, unique, daring new character: a woman who could fight her own battles! Guinevere in the recent "King Arthur" movie was a bold, innovative, unique, daring new character: a woman who could fight her own battles! The rewritten-as-female Starbuck on the new "Battlestar Galactica" is a bold, innovative, unique, daring new character: a woman who can fight her own battles!

Well, since women in Western civilization are so obviously being kept in barefoot-and-pregnant subjugation, what we clearly need is a bold, innovative, unique, daring new TV series which, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, will depict a woman as being strong and independent, able to think and act for herself. That series, now to be seen on ABC-TV, is "Commander in Chief," starring Geena Davis of "Thelma and Louise" fame as President Hillary Clinton --excuse me, I mean as a fictional female U.S. President.

>> The male-chauvinist straw-man characters on this program plainly have never watched "The Avengers," "Buffy," "Xena," "Babylon 5," or the "Matrix" trilogy, since they just can't believe that a woman could be capable of leadership. I expect, however, that the real message of the show, aimed at us flesh-and-blood men, will be: "If you don't approve of a woman leader practicing far-left-wing politics, that is one and the same thing as you opposing ANY and all women in leadership!"

There's a message fit to fertilize the cornfields of Iowa.

Admirers of Ronald Reagan are typically also admirers of his ally Margaret Thatcher. The United States Armed Forces are full of men who have largely conservative political views, yet have no trouble at all obeying orders from female officers. Millions of conservative American men would happily vote for Condoleezza Rice as our next President, and are delighted to receive the socio-political insights of Michelle Malkin, Janet Parshall, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Star Parker and other smart women. Last time I checked, none of those women were being kept in slavish submission by conservative men.

So let Geena Davis have her TV fantasy of being THE VERY FIRST woman allowed to attain a position of leadership. But all of us who pay attention to actual facts know how far removed her sulking straw men are from conservative-male reality. If
this new series proves a hit, it will prove that many Americans prefer self-deception over easily available truth. But then, we already knew that; just look at
the way members of both parties are desperately deceiving themselves that Palestinian thugs don't mean what they say about continuing to attack Israel
regardless of how many concessions are offered. Or look at the way members of both
parties have ignored the totally predictable damage being done by millions of illegal immigrants feeding at the trough of America's welfare system without giving
America any loyalty in return.

Given the speed with which ignored realities can return to bite us, I think that the great American self-deception program, of which ABC's feminist dead-horse-beating exercise is only a small part, will not be able to stay on the air much longer. And
if America falls under totalitarianism, Nielsen ratings will be the very least of Geena Davis' worries.