The Ugly Feminist

Mickey Kaus noted the WaPo story
U.S.-Saudi Relations Show Signs of Stress
and sagely asked the question:

[I]sn't it wrong to confuse promoting democracy with
defying local customs about women's dress?

which brings to mind the once well-known book
The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick,
first published in 1958.

The main theme of The Ugly American
was that American diplomats sent abroad
(the book was set in SE Asia, I believe in Laos)
often either did not or would not learn and respect
the customs of the land and culture within which
they were America's representatives.
The result was that
America was viewed as
overbearing and culturally insensitive,
greatly harming our efforts to be liked
as a nation and as a people.

A review at amazon.com suggested:

Every foreign service officer
should read this as a manual on
how to conduct themselves and adapt to foreign cultures.

Clearly, our feminist-dominated political system,
whether it is under Republican or Democratic leadership,
insists on repeating those errors, in spades, by
trying to shove feminist dogma down the throats
of conservative, tradition-minded people.
This can only contribute to
the imperative towards terrorism.

Could this possibly be a goal of
the Feminist-Zionist conspiracy which is pushing feminism so hard?

(Those old European socialist revolutionaries,
from whom many of today’s PC radicals are literally descendents,
had many, many devious tricks of this nature up their sleeve,
e.g. the infamous agent provocateur.)

(See also Feminism as anti-anti-Semitism).


[Originally posted to the Fray
under the fray-name “neanderthal-2”.
This version is slightly edited.
The original was, after all, just an impromptu, off-the-wall post.]