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The title, of course, only applies if you're a member of Young America's Fascists...er, Foundation, the group of young people who individually probably have more sex dreams about Ronald Reagan than Nancy and Rush Limbaugh combined (Amusingly, YAF bought Reagan's ranch, the oxymoronically named "Rancho del Cielo," or Ranch in the Sky; lucky members get to spend time in an intense training there). In their attempts to put the ugliest face possible on their call for "intellectual diversity" (i.e. Ann Coulter in the classroom), YAF is offering a free poster with the speakers who they want you to know they have. This means, of course, all their best men, and the few women who can actually make it onto their lecture team (the group includes 4 out of the 10 women listed in their speakers section, and a far lower percentage of the men). In other free stuff news, YAF is also offering its 2007-2008 "Conservative Campus Battleplan." We here at Campus Progress need some new bathroom reading anyway, so we'll probably pick it up - last year's version's "facts" aren't as funny the 100th time.

A few pop to mind (Susan Estrich, Arianna Huffington sort of), but I could easily name five times as many prominent women on the right. Ours seem to be on average from an older generation, and dying off (Molly Ivins) quickly.
There may be a million reasons why this is so, but the number of women on that YAF poster shouldn't be occasion to joke -- rather, it should be occasion to stare awkwardly to the side as we contemplate why they've got us beat in that arena.