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Who's Tired of Pink?
By Erica Jong
Posted January 11, 2008 | 11:45 AM (EST)

I am so tired of pink men bombing brown children and rationalizing it as fighting terrorism. I am so tired of pink men telling women (of all colors) what to do with their wombs--which connect with their brains--in case you forgot. I am so tired of pink men telling us we should stay in Iraq for generations. I am so tired of pink men buying bombs and cheating schools. I am so tired of pink men having wives who stand behind them and nod sagely on television. I am so tired of pink men expecting that someone--a brown, black, yellow or white woman--will trail behind them changing light bulbs, taking out garbage, washing laundry, keeping food in the house, taking care of kids of all ages, of parents of all ages. I am so tired of pink men whose wives double or triple the family income thinking they can spend it without doing a damn thing at home. I am so tired of pink men spouting nonsense on TV. I am so tired of pink men arguing, blathering, bloviating, predicting the future--usually wrongly--and telling women to shut up. I am so sick of hearing that another pink man has dropped his children out a window, off a bridge or killed his pregnant wife or killed his unpregnant wife because he was infatuated with another pregnant woman. I am so sick of pink men making war and talking about peace. I am so sick of pink men appointing their mediocre cronies to judgeships, to political advisors, to cushy jobs, to columns in the paper, to multimillion-dollar posts as CEOS or actors (while the actresses make less) or producers or writers or newsreaders or talk show bloviators or supposedly sage counselors at law. I am so tired of pink men.

And by the way some brown men and tan men and wheaten men do these things too.

Don't tell me about women who kill. I know there are some--but fewer. So let's just remember our mothers--who bore us, protected us against our fathers and grandfathers and all the pink or brown men who wanted to rape us or kill us or starve us because we were girls.

I am not stupid. I know all generalizations are false. I know there are bad mothers, bad women, bad sisters, bad aunts, and bad females of every stripe. But I have seen enough men in high office to last a lifetime. Let's give women a chance!

Hard to take anything said by this writer after knowing she's responsible for this paragraph.

Up for debate. I don't think she's ever read what she's written.

But I thought men and women were equal. That what one sex could do the other sex could do just as well.

I don't have anything useful to add, but I thought I'd mention she's the author of Fear of Flying, a hugely successful novel dealing with the sexual revolution of the 70s- my parents had a copy when I was a kid, which they kept hidden in the back of their bathroom closet under some old towels they never used anymore.

I don't understand.

That just shows how pink you are.

That's too silly to even stir the pot.

It's not even original...George Carlin did a bit similiar to this years ago.

Racism, it's cool as long as you hate the right color/gender.


Isn't that Ariana Huffington though? Who cares? 10 people in California?


I appologise I was born with a penis and my parents are caucasian and I happen to have been born in the US... is she happy now?

"We bomb people not because we have a problem with them - just because they're BROWN. Who's the last white people we bombed? That's right, the Germans! Why? Because they were trying to cut in on our action - they wanted to rule the world. Bullshit - that's OUR fuckin job!! So if you have a country with some brown people, tell 'em to watch the fuck out...or we'll god damn bomb them!!"

i thought this was gonna be about that singer

It's funny how pissed off people get at shit like this

I think it's a good thing that people get upset at misandry. Just like I think it's a good thing when people get upset at racism or other forms of sexism.

good book.

me too

i dont want to wear the ribbon!

Ditto. There's only one way to break the circle and it sure isn't by feeding it. I love this love-in alot of women etc have with the Islamists. I'd love to see a feminist move to Saudi Arabia, post on some gay/bi board while she's at it, and see how long she lasts. In fact the Islamists in Darfur treat the blacks great, don't they?

I don't think the blacks in Darfur treat each other very well for that matter.

Alot of it seems to be black via brown on black. Very strange.

This thread title lead me to believe this was going to be about those damn pink baseball caps and pink sports jerseys. I am very tired of that crap.