{"id":677,"date":"2008-03-11T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2008-03-11T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T13:41:00","slug":"wacky-antifeminist-weed-the-iwf-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/03\/11\/wacky-antifeminist-weed-the-iwf-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Antifeminist Weed&#8211;The IWF Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R9aCSbMqJ_I\/AAAAAAAABHw\/P4HG0qM3Ul8\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R9aCSbMqJ_I\/AAAAAAAABHw\/P4HG0qM3Ul8\/s200\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/iwf.org\/inkwell\/show\/20176.html\">Independent Women&#8217;s Forum finally responds <\/a>to that woman-hating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/29\/AR2008022902992.html\">oped by Charlotte Allen<\/a> that ran in <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Washington Post.<\/span>  (Allen was later ID-ed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/03\/06\/AR2008030603240.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">Katha Pollitt in her lively takedown<\/a> as associated with the IWF; she used to work there.)  Writes IWF&#8217;s Carrie Lukas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I agree with the critiques that she took it too far (and lost me on the humor), particularly with the ending: &#8220;Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts&#8217; content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2008\/03\/04\/DI2008030402153.html\">Allen responded<\/a> to the furious response to her piece in a live question-and-answer session at the Post, and feministing posted <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/008734.html\">some highlights<\/a>.  I loved the questions, including this one:<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Can I have some of whatever wacky antifeminist week that you&#8217;re smoking?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>Hehe.  Sing it sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Women&#8217;s Forum finally responds to that woman-hating oped by Charlotte Allen that ran in The Washington Post. (Allen was later ID-ed by Katha Pollitt in her lively takedown as associated with the IWF; she used to work there.) Writes IWF&#8217;s Carrie Lukas: I agree with the critiques that she took it too far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}