Activisting While Pink

Excellent. I thought I might never get a chance to re-use my painstakingly assembled (I used Seashore, a neat little open source ap) "pink" image (pictured above) but apparently the Concerned Women of America thinks its hypocritical of Code Pink to associate itself with this girliest of colors while they "advocate policies that are very aggressive and more often associated with men."

Hilarious. It's not the first time I've felt that if CWA didn't exist, the feminist blogosphere would have to invent it.

Comments

I hope CWA's argument gains traction, in a wierd way. The media, etc., have been dismissing anyone who doesn't support lashing out madly (using an army made of someone else's children) at whatever country disses us as being weak and essentially un-masculine.

If the CWA is arguing that advocating for peace is advocating for an aggressive, un-feminized policy, then let's hope this argument reaches the sexist, militaristic pigs in the media. If we can't defeat their cheerleading for war and their sexism about it, maybe the CWA, in playing to the sexism of it all, might end up changing minds in the opposite way it wants to?

Posted by DAS | June 28, 2007 4:22 PM

Maybe Code Pink should change their name to Code Camouflage. But--oh no!--then they'd be caving into the value structure of the military-industrial complex by acknowledging the validity of its dress code.

There's simply no way to win once you start playing this kind of rhetorical identity politics. It's best to leave it to the tiny subculture of people who actually take it seriously.

Posted by James Gary | June 28, 2007 6:11 PM