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The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda

Posted on | May 20, 2014 | 28 Comments

So, the New York Times does a feature article about “women’s empowerment conferences” — upscale corporate-sponsored events for career women — and Everybody’s Favorite Feminist™ Amanda Marcotte has “mixed feelings,” because “corporate sponsors have a way of quietly refocusing these kinds of conferences away from the nitty-gritty issues that face ordinary American women and toward elite women congratulating one another for getting increasingly richer.”

You hear that, Corporate Sponsors? Next time, be sure to invite Everybody’s Favorite Feminist™ as a speaker, so she can travel first-class and stay in a swanky resort hotel for a weekend and give a talk about “the nitty-gritty issues that face ordinary American women.”

Keepin’ it real, yo.

 

Category: Feminism

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28 Responses to “The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda”

  1. ariyadesai01
    May 20th, 2014 @ 7:26 am

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda http://t.co/l9BsjFZGz9 #TCOT

  2. MrEvilMatt
    May 20th, 2014 @ 7:27 am

    The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda: So, the New York Times does a feature article about “women’s empowerment conferenc… http://t.co/tQzJ5AUm0a

  3. commonpatriot
    May 20th, 2014 @ 7:27 am

    via @rsmccain: The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda http://t.co/Bg6ARX4ZTJ #tcot

  4. CHideout
    May 20th, 2014 @ 7:27 am

    The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda: So, the New York Times does a feature article about “women’s empowerment conferenc… http://t.co/x0X02AO5Es

  5. WeRResistance
    May 20th, 2014 @ 7:27 am

    The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda: So, the New York Times does a feature article about “women’s empowerment conferenc… http://t.co/Bm6uD1nj5X

  6. Citzcom
    May 20th, 2014 @ 7:27 am

    The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda: So, the New York Times does a feature article about “women’s empowerment conferenc… http://t.co/NVObLKI32E

  7. Lockestep1776
    May 20th, 2014 @ 7:27 am

    The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda: So, the New York Times does a feature article about “women’s empowerment conferenc… http://t.co/5yTHVIi5eU

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    May 20th, 2014 @ 9:10 am

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  9. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 20th, 2014 @ 9:11 am

    http://batshitcrazynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-2014-05-17-at-5.58.32-AM1.png

  10. Adjoran
    May 20th, 2014 @ 9:13 am

    What is Mandy’s position on the latest feminist screed, that tampons are a tool of oppression for the Patriarchy?

    I mean, if all PIV is rape, what about TIV?

    It’s a slippery slope.

  11. ophidianpilot
    May 20th, 2014 @ 9:14 am

    The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/EzVJpp3uRE via @rsmccain

  12. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 20th, 2014 @ 9:20 am

    What would they use instead? Clumps of moss?

  13. Cactus Ed
    May 20th, 2014 @ 9:36 am

    Can you remember the last time feminism was relevant, anyway?

  14. rsmccain
    May 20th, 2014 @ 9:51 am

    RT @commonpatriot: via @rsmccain: The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda http://t.co/Bg6ARX4ZTJ #tcot

  15. rsmccain
    May 20th, 2014 @ 9:53 am

    … and @MsEBL wins the award for Best Illustrated Comment. http://t.co/RY4hi50OO6 Congratulations!

  16. Adjoran
    May 20th, 2014 @ 9:54 am

    Only if they are gathered by wymyn foragers.

    Or they might go totally natural and just let it flow, pausing to clean up the legs and vee-jay-jay like animals do, with the tongue.

    If this catches on, people with white carpets will begin to give extra scrutiny to their guest lists.

  17. Dana
    May 20th, 2014 @ 10:03 am

    It ought to be remembered that Miss Marcotte has been a success in the capitalist world herself. She came from ordinary circumstances, a bastard child in Texas, was working a regular-person’s job while blogging for free on Pandagon, but, through hard work and perseverance, managed to take her writing skills — not that they impress me, but they apparently impress others — to venues in which she is supporting herself through her writing. She and her POSSLQ move from Austin to Brooklyn, something which normally means an increase in the cost-of-living, and is doing at least reasonably well.

    In other words, she is becoming one of the elites!

    Her angst is somewhat humorous, in that she frets about the agenda of the elites not being in tune with the struggles of less-successful working women everywhere, but she ought to appreciate, as much as anyone, that the economic system in which she has been able to make a success of herself is the only one which has enabled more than a small minority to escape subsistence living. That perception, I suspect, will always elude her.

  18. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 20th, 2014 @ 10:14 am

    Is that is what the cats are for? To clean up any messes?

  19. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 20th, 2014 @ 10:55 am

    Funny how they want the patriarchy to clean the bathroom!

  20. AmPowerBlog
    May 20th, 2014 @ 11:29 am

    The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda http://t.co/QRjBK9HijM Lol. Via @RSMcCain

  21. Kirby McCain
    May 20th, 2014 @ 12:54 pm

    Her bio ‘born and bred in Texas.’ WTI and a visual I don’t need. Raised in Texas would have sufficed.

  22. Quartermaster
    May 20th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm

    Mayhaps that was the origin of the “red carpet?”

  23. TiminAL
    May 20th, 2014 @ 4:43 pm

    “It’s a slippery slope.”
    ISWYDT 🙂

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    May 20th, 2014 @ 6:48 pm

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  25. thatMrGguy
    May 20th, 2014 @ 7:18 pm

    The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda http://t.co/wE5iHVguUI

  26. BobBelvedere
    May 20th, 2014 @ 8:49 pm

    RT @rsmccain: … and @MsEBL wins the award for Best Illustrated Comment. http://t.co/RY4hi50OO6 Congratulations!

  27. Dana
    May 21st, 2014 @ 6:28 am

    Amanda’s bedroom:

    https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10377990_10152242692528197_3905810845734935886_n.jpg

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