A Cautionary Tale For Women Who Blog About Sex, Even Though It May Be The Only Way To Get Blogospheric Attention In The First Place

I’m not a fan or even regular reader of Ana Marie Cox, but did she really deserve this? Excepts:

Funny, the last thing we remember was that bitch stewardess in first class telling us we couldn’t have another Screwdriver. I told her, “I’m a columnist for TIME MAGAZINE, you stupid sky-wench! I can have as many goddamn Screwdrivers as I fucking want!” Maybe we shouldn’t have taken that bar Xanax (or was it two?) at Reagan National.

Now we just need to track down some vodka and find out why we have Joe Klein’s business card and $50 in our pocket.

and

We got an email from GLENN R!!!! He told us not to call his home number anymore because of his wife, but then he asked if we think he should shave his back. We told him YES because the gays do that and ANYTHING the gays do is HOT!!!

Now we’re going to take some Ambien, wash it down with some room-service scotch, and drift off to sleep dreaming of our sweet **GLENN**!! Ooooh, DADDY!! …

…We know we weren’t supposed to call G.R. at home. We didn’t expect his evil cunt bitch whorebag wife to answer. Evil BITCH! HATE!! HATE!! HATE!! We hung up and called Hitchens, but the woman who answered the phone said he was passed out under a taxi.

No doubt my lack of appreciation for the wonderous levity at play further establishes my humorless feminist credentials, but there had to be less sexist ways to mock her, especially at one of the most high profile political blogs run by a woman. I know that as “Wonkette” Cox used risque humor as a lure for readers and she was quite successful at it, but I don’t remember her being as as meanspirited or personal as the FDL satire. Without the sex references, I doubt she have been nearly as successful as a blogger, and while I don’t exactly respect some of the professional choices Cox has made, I resist the view that “bad girls” bring this sort of misogynist treatment on themslves.

Once again I wonder why I seem to have such a different view of liberalism and its core values than other bloggers; and I don’t think having or lacking sense of humor is really the issue.

–Ann Bartow