Basting

When I first wrote about this, about 9 or 10 hours after I'd see in it Booman Tribune, I'd held off at first because, in my end-of-day ennui, I couldn't find the source. Bright-eyed and anybody-but-Bushie-tailed the next morning, I posted it, thinking it would be just a little footnote in the blogaxy.

But then last night, Amanda, who came across the story via completely different sites (this in spite of our both being rather contrary and inconveniently non-party-line feminist bloggers, who are supposedly blinded in our "single issue" mindset, which only goes to show how only Pollyanna can presume to lead anything called "the netroots") coined (or picked up on) the perfect meme for this story: the turkey baster. And it caught on.

In this day and age, where progressives are met with hostility from the right, as well as by many who claim to be of "the left," it's kinda nice to have even a part-time blogging day lifted by seeing such an hysterical meme stick to radical conservative ambitions of female subjugation.

Let's hope this turkey-baster eugenics bill the Republicans are cooking up gets dumped where it belongs: in the doghouse November next. Meanwhile, may they roast in the heat of their misogyny and lose their stuffing.