When it comes to the embarrassing dust-up between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the Queenie Quartet, only the leader of the pack Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is allowed to define the terms of the debate, and no one else.
Or so she wants you to think.
The latest instance of AOC throwing a temper tantrum because of hurt feelings comes in response to remarks made by Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the President, regarding the ongoing public spat between Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez, Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).
Here’s what Conway said:
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday mocked the dispute over border spending between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and four female freshman Democratic lawmakers as a “major meow moment” and “huge catfight.”
Conway gloated that Pelosi had put Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — who call themselves “The Squad” — in their place after they opposed an emergency spending bill because they believed it did not go far enough to protect migrant children.
“Those four female Democrats that Nancy Pelosi is brushing back, I think they are all freshman members,” she said on Fox News.
“A major ‘meow moment’ — brushing back in a huge catfight, really ridiculing them — and they voted against the Democratic aid package.”
In response to Conway’s remarks, AOC accused her of … sexism:
“Catfight” is the sexist term Republicans use when two adult women happen to disagree with each other.
The reason they find it so novel &exciting is bc the GOP haven’t elected enough women themselves to see that it can, in fact, be a normal occurrence in a functioning democracy. https://t.co/s6eMMmvzrd
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 9, 2019
When it was pointed out to Ocasio-Cortez that women being sexist towards each other was not actually a thing, the freshman Congresswoman dug a deeper hole by trying to redefine the term “patriarchy”:
Just when you think all hope is lost, we get a Fox News contributor to realize that patriarchy has no gender 😉 https://t.co/sMCYk6i31I
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 9, 2019
But those pesky facts just kept coming back to haunt her:
Patriarchy literally has a gender. pic.twitter.com/3Bi028CRPI
— Danielle Butcher (@DaniSButcher) July 9, 2019
Plus, so-called “progressive” women can and do try to keep other women down in ways the “patriarchy” couldn’t get away with, as Daily Caller‘s Virginia Kruta astutely noted here:
What's it called when women condescend to other women because they refuse to limit their thinking to their body parts?
Repression is no longer the tool of the patriarchy.
cc: @LisaMarieBoothe https://t.co/fnEP0BfXBF
— Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) July 9, 2019
In a follow-up, AOC asserted that:
(Being a woman does not mean you’re immune from being bad to women or genderqueer people. Just like being a man doesn’t mean you don’t have a role in the movement for gender equity! We are all in this together.)
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 9, 2019
“Being a woman does not mean you’re immune from being bad to women” – totally agree there, especially when it comes to tearing other women down based on their looks – like AOC has done, and then utterly lacking in self-awareness when complaining about how others use a woman’s looks to tear other women down – which AOC has also done.
The arguments of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of the Queenie Quartet have the consistency of a wet paper bag. As I’ve said before, the Freshman Four want to have it both ways. On one hand, they want to be able to insult and vilify their political opposition with impunity, yet they turn around and whine like babies when they get a taste of their own medicine.
In a nutshell, these are the same women who tell you they “don’t flinch” and that they will “raise hell” but then turn around and play the “sexism” or “woman of color” card to try and shut their opposition down for raising hell and not flinching.
“Feminist” frauds. All of them.
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— Based in North Carolina, Sister Toldjah is a former liberal and a 15+ year veteran of blogging with an emphasis on media bias, social issues, and the culture wars. Read her Red State archives here. Connect with her on Twitter. –
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