I mean, how can we fight the patriarchy unless we call women trained monkeys, amirite?

Stories about Sarah Palin often bring out misogyny in the political left, but the comments on this Jezebel article were fine for the most part: The readership focused on Palin's laughable antics and opinions, where there's more than enough fodder for criticism, instead of directing gendered slurs at her.

And then I came upon this comment, which was given in response to another user's riff off Palin's speech:


( The frightening part: This comment got 23 stars )

MRAs' straw woman to the contrary, feminism does not stand for the proposition that all women are good and can do no wrong. In fact, placing women on a pedestal is a different kind of sexism. I know firsthand that women, including feminists, are imperfect human beings. Being a feminist, however, means upholding a certain integrity of beliefs and actions when it comes to gender equality. I do my own small part in upholding that standard when I can.