Palin Envy, a freudian diagnosis for our cojones-challenged GOP establishment?

"I'm interested in the gratuitous disparagement of men whose looks and personal style fail to track the masculine stereotype," Ann Althouse (above) took Rush Limbaugh to task this morning over his sissy-laced rant about Wikileaker Julian Assange: "I like Rush Limbaugh and have defended him many times, in front of people who tend to hate you if you say anything good about him, so I think my opinion on the subject has special weight … And let me invite Rush to … diavlog with me about the so-called chickification problems that plague our world today." Video here.

"Loved this that you told the Big Guy," we wrote in the comments of Althouse's incandescent, must-experience video-post "Here I am listening — for the first time — to Rush Limbaugh talking about me":

To say men are like women when they're being cowardly and weak. I don't like it ... Also, some chickification is a good thing. Women have a lot to offer. Think about it.

Exactly. As we wrote a few months back about the so-called feminization of our culture:

It isn't "feminization" at all, but, rather, postmodern, identity-politics "feminism" — one of a cascade of unfortunate byproducts of the Gramscian march through the institutions — that has given us an increasingly impotent chattering class of credulous Chris Matthewses of both sexes.

Twittering this morning about the latest effluence from that impotent chattering class — MSNBC's "house conservative" Joe Scarborough's Journolist/Cabalist temper tantrum about Sarah Palin's "anti-intellectual" and "dopey dream" of being president, and how come nobody's paying attention to me!? (h/t Dan Riehl) — we stumbled upon this seductive metaphor from Lisa B:

Now we have a new psychological disorder in addition to Palin Derangement Syndrome. Palin Envy is rampant! Paging Dr. Sigmund Freud! :)

As we said in response:

Your Freudian "PALIN ENVY" is brilliant, by the way, given the cojones-challenged state of our GOP establishment. :)

Update: Scarborough tantrum top story on Memeorandum.

Update II: Michelle Malkin Buzzworthy link!

Update III: Larwyn's Linx links.

Update IV: Althouse talks back in "Sissy on 'sissy'":

Yesterday, I had a problem with Rush Limbaugh using the word "sissy" over and over again to express his feelings about Julian Assange. That, understandably, caught the attention of Sissy Willis. Because she's a Sissy but not a sissy, she did not react with I Feel Bad About My Name: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman. She wrote to riff on something I said in my listening-to-Rush-Limbaugh video.

Be sure to check out the comments, a mixed bag of the good, the bad and the ugly:

You've got to admire Sissy Willis's ovaries.

Crossposted at Riehl World View, Cloven Not Crested and Liberty Pundits.

Comments

[tommy mc donnell]

the gop elites like the democrats are afraid that someone might give the american people back their right to the fruits of their labor. imagine someone thinking that what you work for belongs to you and not the political class.

[Gayle Miller]

Amen Tommy and Sissy. Remember Ahnold calling his opponents "girly-men"? It offended me then and it would offend me now. I'm a woman and I like to think a fairly formidable one at that. Blunt to my core, un-diplomatic and non-p.c. as well.

I have nothing but contempt for the current GOP establishment types. They are all weaklings and wimps and only interested in their own self-aggrandizement.

So Mitt - how did that freaking health care boondoggle in Massachusetts work out for the taxpayers there?

My Rusty is more of a man than Romney! And he has no cojones!

[BobInFL]

Over the 2010 election cycle (esp. the rise of the Tea Parties) I said the following many times to many people:

"Why is it that, in the GOP, only the women appear to have any b*lls?"

And nobody -- not one single person -- disagreed. Think about it: Palin. Nikki Haley. Marsha Blackburn. Michelle Bachmann. Jan Brewer. Renee Ellmers. Even Christine O'Donnell.

And on the non-distaff side, we have...Mitch McConnell. John Boehner.

Sigh.

[Sissy Willis]

BobinFL: Not to despair. Think Allen West, Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson for starters. The stouthearted men are marching right beside the Mama Grizzlies to recapture the hill and reignite the lights of the Shining City.