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Now, we have some NAGS news, the National Association of Gals are very upset out there. One of my all-time favorite congresswomen — who actually prefers to be called a congressman — is Marsha Blackburn. She\u2019s a Republican from Tennessee. She\u2019s been in the Tennessee delegation in Congress since 2003, and she prefers to be called a congressman. You call her office and you get hold of the secretary, she\u2019ll say, ‘Hang on, let me grab the congressman for you, hang on just a second.\u2019 Euphemistically here, not literally, grab the congressman, and then she gets on the phone. Marsha Blackburn says, ‘It\u2019s not something I see as a big deal.\u2019 She\u2019s the only female member of the Tennessee delegation, by the way. She she\u2019s not trying to make a statement, feminist or otherwise. ‘Her communications director, Claude Chafin, ‘I have never known her to correct anyone who calls her ‘congresswoman.\u2019 I have also never heard her introduce herself as anything other than ‘Marsha.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Still, ‘congressman\u2019 is her first choice, Chafin continued. Blackburn signs her official correspondence with that title, and it appears on her website. In several news articles, she\u2019s referred to as ‘Congressman Blackburn,\u2019 with the added disclaimer ‘her preferred term.” The NAGS are bent out of shape about this. The National Association of Gals is upset. ‘There\u2019s a reason for that, say leading female academics, women\u2019s policy analysts and other members: Names do matter. ‘When they refer to themselves as congresswoman, this sounds different because it is different,\u2019 said Latifa Lyles,\u2019 of the NAGS. You know, this is fascinating. This is in The Politico. Now, would you listen to how The Politico writes up and describes and gives their modifier here: ‘said Latifa Lyles, of the National Organization for Women, a feminist advocacy group,\u2019 as though people don\u2019t know who they are anymore, which is music, sweet, because we have swept the NAGS away to irrelevance. By the way, who wrote this? Helena Andrews. <\/p>\n

Helena, The National Organization for Women is a liberal advocacy group, it\u2019s not a feminist advocacy group. Anyway, Latifa Lyles of the NAGS says that\u2019s significant. We want her to use the word congresswoman. ”We don\u2019t have to pretend we\u2019re not women in order to be leaders in this country,\u2019 she said. Barbara Kellerman, a professor of women\u2019s and government studies at Harvard University, said women — like many minority groups — are repeatedly at odds with issues of nomenclature. ‘Whenever we blend with the male appellation, we are diminishing the significance of the accomplishment,\u2019 said Kellerman.\u2019 No, the accomplishment stands on its own. So here are the NAGS, and here are a bunch of enlightened feminists — what was that about, by the way? Empowering women to do what they want to do. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Marsha Blackburn, ‘I want to be called congressman.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘You can\u2019t!\u2019 <\/p>\n

More Stalinist-like intolerance from another liberal advocacy group!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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