Updated: Edwards Campaign Solves Mystery Behind Virgin Birth

Marcotte gone.      Ace is beside himself with grief.       She'll be missed, video here.

It must have been a slow weekend for the Edwards campaign, Amanda Marcotte found time to see a movie and blog.

The Christian version of the virgin birth is generally interpreted as super-patriarchal, where god is viewed as so powerful he can impregnate without befouling himself by touching a woman

Wow! I knew cleanliness was next to Godliness, I just never took it that far. Actually, I wonder if Marcotte wasn't thinking of the Koran.

The movie strongly and repeatedly gives lie to the idea that male-dominated political interests have a right to lay claim to the bodies of children born of women to be used for their purposes.

Ah, "lay claim" must mean something like keep alive; or has slavery come back in vogue when I wasn't looking, according to the Edward's campaign blogger? And let's just dismiss any women who might be pro-life, obviously it isn't like they have a life, or a thought of their own. Talk about a stilted world view.

And this below - okay, they can try and blame Bush for a lot of things, but does Marcotte think that he made all the women in the movie infertile, too?

Considering that babies are a symbol of hope in the movie, and that the patriarchy is viewed as the source of violence and distrust, and considering that it’s only women that are infertile, my interpretion(sic) is that women’s bodies went infertile as an unconscious abandonment of hope. It’s like one worldwide uterine strike against the mess we find ourselves in.

Comments

[Purple Avenger]

"Babies are nothing but a symbol of hope, really."

Which makes it so easy to kill them I suppose...being only a "symbol". No worse than burning a flag I suppose.

[scarshapedstar]

Purple Avenger, in all seriousness, I must ask:

Are you functionally illiterate? She's talking about a movie portraying a world where there are no more babies.

How can anyone be so obtuse?

[ZZMike]

As an aside, Marcotte just resigned from blogging for the Edwards campaign.

Her review seems to be a pretty good post-modern deconstruction of the movie, and the book - which the author, P D James, would most likely be surprised by.

[templar knight]

Yeah, Purple Avenger, don't you realize how great this movie is, and that analysis by Amanda, why it just made me want to fall at her feet, and apologize for all us evil men. I'm breathless.

[Neo]

I question the timing.

[bloodrage bob]

JAYbus, i'm really gonna miss that f****** loudmouth c***. even though she's a pottymouthed little c*********, she sure had style. the filth that poured forth from her filthy little hole was edwards' only real chance at deflecting questions why his house - built by channeling sad stories from sick babies - why his house is bigger and better-stocked than the average piggly-wiggly. him dumping marcotte just shows ....how'd she put it?....just shows "he's just another m************ lowlife pile of s*** democratt ambulance-chasing puke who doesn't deserve a classy f******* blogger like her".

[daveinboca]

Edwards better hope that the other leftard blogress quits soon. He already looks dumber than his Breck-boy visage implies. Lord of the county manor does Pitchfork Ben Tillman imitation and expects people to buy into his fake po'-boy act. He really is dumber than he looks.

[BobInStamford]

Whats the big deal about Edwards house?? Not everyone wants to live like a dirty redneck, you know. Geez.

[sk]

I figured that movie when I found out it was aliens.

It's possible to be born with a baby in the womb and have it later.

[Fred Beloit]

Hey, Bob from Stanford. Greetings from Panama City. Bet you are a Lieberman supporter. Great. You're right. Edwards doesn't want to live like a dirty redneck. All he wants to do is live like a filthy rich redneck.

[kerry_zaputz]

I love that this dopey yenta hates Christianity because it's misogynist. Yet, her beloved candidate (the one with the tinted hair and eyebrows) deserted his wife when she was undergoing cancer treatment to visit Iowa some 3 years before the 2008 election. Seems kinda misogynistic to me. Don't believe the spin about Edwards nursing his wife back to health--the dude was in Iowa and New Hampshire!! (maybe the eyebrow-tinters are better in those states)