ANNE APPLEBAUM, YOU GOTTA BE PUTTING ME ON.

Today's installment involves her trotting out the "a selective look at the website of an American organization focused on domestic politics proves that feminists don't care about the subjugation of women in Saudi Arabia" routine. What's amazing --as TAPPED readers will be aware -- is that just yesterday Emily Yoffe churned out exactly the same silliness. Do Feminists [sic] for Life or somebody have a template that they just send out to contrarian pundits to use whenever they're particularly bereft of ideas? Applebaum bootstraps this well-worn and dishonest argument by linking to Christina Hoff Summers's atrocious version in that well-known principled supporter of feminist causes The Weekly Standard. I think what J. Goodrich said in response to the Summers article applies here:

Sommers is a a very fascinating example of someone who has not herself written a long book about the situation of women in Islamic countries. She found it more important to write books intended at destroying feminism so that there would then be nobody at all to help those women.

Maybe Yoffe could, say, devote some of the column space she wasted explaining how hearing about global warming is just too depressing and people should stop talking about it and write about women's rights instead. Oh wait -- that would probably by kind of a downer too!  

--Scott Lemieux