On any given day, one thing is as certain as gravity. The XX Factor on Slate will feature the Male Top Editors stable of cherry-pricked XX women writers trash talking Palin. A few short months ago these same women (“liberals” all, so they say) cut Hillary to shreds with the words and fonts of their own self-loathing discontent.

I occasionally comment on the sexist, misogynistic things these female-loathing, male-adoring gals write. And yes, I do have massive Horror in my soul for Missy Dahlia Lithwick, the woman who hates her femaleness so much she lashes out at any female who dare find herself without the shredded self-esteem that so obviously plagues Missy Dahlia.

But …stop the presses, hold the phones and float gravity-free out of ur chairs for the briefest of moments. I just encountered this on the XX factor:
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One Nasty Palin Rumor Debunked, by Rachael Larimore

• When I'd read that Wasilla, during Sarah Palin's mayoral tenure, had a practice of charging victims for their "rape kits"—the forensic examination required to gather evidence against the perpetrator—I was as horrified as anyone else. The explanation that it was the policy of the local police chief doing the billing, and even a quote by a Democratic member of the state legislature that Palin probably knew nothing about the policy, brought little comfort. At the same time, it just didn't make any sense, so I tempered my horror with skepticism.
Fortunately, it turns out that skepticism wins the day. Thanks to very thorough debunkings by bloggers Charlie Martin of Explorations and Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee, we can put this bit of nastiness to rest.
First off, the Wasilla police chief, Charlie Fannon, is on record as having tried to bill victims' insurance companies, not the victims themselves, for the rape kits. In other towns in Alaska, hospitals were trying to bill victims, prompting an Alaska state law forbidding the practice. If this practice still seems creepy or exclusive to macho, rough-and-tumble Alaska, well, it happens to be the practice in other states, too, like North Carolina (until recently) and ... Illinois.
Some conservative bloggers are trying to play "gotcha" and point out that Barack Obama co-sponsored a bill in the Illinois state senate that provides state money to cover services provided to victims who have neither state aid or insurance, meaning that Illinois also tries to get insurance companies to pay up, just like little ol' Wasilla. Best I can tell from my rudimentary reading of the Illinois code, Obama co-sponsored an amendment to existing legislation that already had the insurance clause in there, and the amendment had nothing to do with rape kits. So, I'm not going to engage in gotcha-ism. We could play that game all day long.
What bothers me is that, while the media has been quick to investigate and shoot down every claim that Sarah Palin makes—that she stopped the Bridge to Nowhere, that she opposes earmarks—the nasty rumors are taken at face value. It takes bloggers, working on their own time and with tools no fancier than Google, to figure out that she's not personally sending bills for $1,200 to traumatized rape victims and that no, she did NOT cut funding for teen mothers, unless you define "cut" as not providing as much of a budget increase as had been had asked for (same with funding "cuts" for Catholic Charities and the Special Olympics).

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I was thrilled and astounded to see this honest piece on the XX Factor. All the negative and positive spin is gone and readers get what they want from MSM—an honest accounting. My only complaint is that Ms. Larimore fails to note that the “nasty rumors” are media-fueled.
That is, the Media themselves are putting out spun stories on Palin in the fashion of a negative campaign ad. Yet hats off to u Ms. Larimore. But that just means you will not get to publish as much as Missy woman-hater Dahlia.

BUT ….Folks, don’t get to excited about the sudden halt of hate for women by women on the XX Factor. Just scroll down a bit and you get this from Miss D:
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“Are we really going to condemn the McCain campaign for treating her as an object, with demands that they “free” her? I understand why smart women in the media are enraged with Palin’s refusal to engage them. It’s appalling. But I don’t think it’s good for women to direct that rage at her male keepers, handlers, or advisers, either.”
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Poor Missy BJgivernchief Dahlia Lithwick, she jumps like a dog thru a hoop at every chance to call Palin appalling and strike sexist sticks in all women’s hearts by telling us Palin has Male keepers.

Gov. Palin looks to me like a woman who has tolerated no Keepers Missy D, while you are the epitome of a woman Kept by Male Publishers. Missy D’s male handlers are the Top edit men at Slate and the very sexist Jon Meacham of Newsweek, who Handles and Minds, and Keeps his women away from writing about politics unless they have been fully inculcated into his Program of Thought. Newsweek is about as anti-feminist a place as downtown Riyadh.

And then just below Missy D’s item, we get…Ta DA!...
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Vampire Vixen by another XX Factor anti-feminist Hanna Rosin

• “There is an amazing photo spread across this morning's Washington Times of Sarah Palin, shot from behind the head of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. (Sadly, I can't find it online). Palin, radiating confidence, looks like she wants to ravish him, if not suck his blood. Now we got absolutely no actual information out of this foreign affairs speed dating. ("It was fine," said Hamid Karzai. And: "We talked a lot about a lot of things.") So we are not insulting her to say it was just an image building exercise. And the image conveyed by this photo, featured in a friendly conservative paper is: That is one MANSLAYING v.p. candidate we got.
This, plus the "Hottest VP" buttons, plus the action figure in a miniskirt, makes one suspect that conservatives are promoting the sexy Christian girl image rather than offended by it, as they claim to be. “

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THANK GOODNESS WOMEN HAVE ROSIN TO TELL US WHAT A BLOOD-SUCKING nasty Palin is and to diminish the Governor’s meeting with a head of state as nothing more than speed dating.

By the Way, can Missy Rosin get me some coffee… and one of those yummy jelly doughnuts? Thanks, Missy H, now get ur sad-sack male-worshipping ass back to the 60s and shut UP!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/
September 24th 08

Also.. NOT TO BE MISSED or Forgotten....Appalling sexist comments of Missy Dahlia aimed at Hillary supporters, calling us Harridans who ask for the violence she inflicts see:

http://femisex.com/content/%E2%80%9Chillary-harridans%E2%80%9D-and-other...