This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

Actual Headline: Sarah Palin and the Battle for Feminism.

A garbage nightmare right from its title. Which, you'll note, engages the violent imagery of a "battle." Perfect.

Actual Sub-head: "The ex-governor and her Mama Grizzlies argue that the real women's issue is our country's fiscal future."

Yeah, they're really ahead of the curve on that one. If only womanists/feminists and other social justice advocates had ever thought to argue that the economy is a feminist issue, and if only they'd been doing that for like TWO HUNDRED YEARS. I guess we'd look pretty smart right now. Oh well!

I mean, seriously. Anyone who can write—with, presumably, a straight face—a line like, "The Palinites, then, have introduced an unfamiliar thought into American politics: maybe a trillion-dollar deficit is a woman's issue," really doesn't need to be writing about feminism and feminists as if she knows what the fuck she's talking about.

That's just embarrassing, right there.

Actual Author Bio: "Kay S. Hymowitz is a contributing editor of City Journal, the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of the forthcoming Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys."

LOL! Sure. Of course she is.

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