"I have to say, I'm really enjoying this whole teabag thing. It's really inspiring some excellent daydreaming. For one thing, it's brought together the words teabag and Michelle Malkin for me in a very powerful, thrilling sort of way. Not that I haven't ever put those two concepts together before, but this is the first time it's happened while in the process of reading her actual columns. …[T]his move of hers to spearhead the teabag movement really adds an element to her writing that wasn't there before. Now when I read her stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth. It vastly improves her prose."—Fauxgressive journo Matt Taibbi, who has previously drawn my ire by hilariously joking about child rape.
I suspect there is a strong correlation between: A) the ability to explain, or even intuitively understand, why the picture drawn in that quote is fundamentally different from general jokes about teabagging; and B) one's commitment to practicing feminist principles in one's daily life (that is, something beyond a perfunctory endorsement of Roe during an election year or when your girlfriend tells you she's pregnant).
Just a hunch.
Btw, in case anyone is suffering from the misapprehension that I regard Michelle Malkin as anything other than a dangerous, loathsome, ideologically bankrupt asshole because I am defending her, let me assure you, I find her and her ideas and ideals utterly repugnant. But I defend her against misogynist smears not because I endorse her or her politics, but because that's how feminism works.
[H/T to Shaker Yoav.]
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