Meghan O’Rourke in Slate today, makes what has become the traditional Feminist argument against tradition… It’s all Madison Ave, it’s a sign the woman is property… a badge of slavery and whatever else… All the standard lines the socialist left uses.
This is the same crowd that’s been loudly arguing against the military establishment in general, and in particular are actions in the Middle East of late. Granted, they argue from the standpoint of the aforementioned Frankfurt school, but that’s another linkage.
But it strikes me that the linkage that they utterly miss, is that said military establishment must be doing its job correctly, if brain dead people like O’Rourke have the luxury to sit around arguing about minutiae like diamond rings on engaged women. They’d be running for their lives, otherwise. Or arguing about what eye shadow goes with a particular color of Burka.
(Shake of the head)
Update: Reax from Jonah Goldberg
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June 12th, 2007 at 9:44
Suggested alternative title: The Cows are mooing again.
Aside from a few cows in the media, haven’t all the gender feminsts died out by now?
Wish I could remember where I read this. Alas. The twlling thing about engagement rings and the two months salary thing is where there advertised you don’t seem thos DeBeers ads mens magazines, or business publication. You see them in women’s magazines. DeBeerr et al is not targting the men who will buy the diamond rings. Rather it is targeting hte women who will demand the rings. As long a women clamor for rings, men will continue to buy them. So things never change.