BLOGS MAKE A DIFFERENCE

By Allen Van Hoosier,
Male Feminist

It was brought to my attention yesterday by a follower of this blog that soon after my posting of my blog entry about weak wishy-washy feminists that didn't have the "balls" to either keep their maiden name or completely change it to their married name actually caused a change to a local celebrity, right here in river city.

My blog entry was a shot - directly aimed at the juggular of a local Evansville lawyer who obviously spent a small fortune in awarded legal fees from workman's comp or felony methanphetamine busts on morning commercials begging local citizens to retain her services. At the begining and at the end of each of these commercials - which - on average numbered about 6 spots between 6am and 7:45 am on the local NBC affiliate, this attorney would beg locals to "Call me. I'm "Donna Stevens-Jackson."

The name was changed to prevent said attorney from coming after me for libel. The first amendment protects me for the most part, but I hardly think a local TV-ambulance-chaser quallifies for "public figure" in the eyes of the law.

That blog can be found here:
http://ecclecticreview.blogspot.com/2008/11/dont-you-just-love-those-feminists-who.html

But the intriguing part of this tale is this: About two weeks after that blog was published, I noticed that her local spots had changed ever-so slightly. No longer was she Donna Stevens-Jackson. She had regressed back into being just "Donna Stevens."

Actually I never gave the commercial's script change a second thought. I thought to myself that it was merely a coincidence and nothing more.

And then came the recon and intle I gathered a couple of days ago. It has been made known to me that during a meeting with "Donna Stevens-Jackson" to discuss a pending work-comp claim against a major aluminum manufacturer here in south-western Indiana, the comment was made, "I noticed your morning TV spots went from being "Donna Stevens-Jackson" to just "Donna Stevens." It looked like you re-shot all of your commercials. That must have been expensive. Why did you do it?"

Donna Stevens-Jackson went on to tell him that the cost was not all that steep because the ad agency that shot the spots were clients of hers. And as to the "why" she did it was because of a local blogger's post that was making the assertion that a woman who hyphenated her last name was - to put it simplified, an inept feminist, and if she can't take a stand with her self and her own identity, then she had no business being in a court room. She and her husband - according to her, had the discussion numerous times and it was his idea to hyphenate the name to begin with. She went on to tell him that the world of blogs are a dangerous medium in the market place of ideas because it gave everyone a "free-open-reign" to publish ideas, regardless of education or background.

"But," she said, "I'm sure that the blogger got a few laughs out of his post at my expense, but that's all past now, and my husband and I laugh at the whole silly notion.
Her comment to my friend (a former co-worker to be honest), "Blogs are a dangerous medium in the market place of ideas because it gave everyone a "free-open-reign" to publish ideas, regardless of education or background" falls under the catergory of "Case of the dip-shits."
Hmmm. Case of the dip-shits. How insightful. I am sure when she goes home every night behind the wheel with kids in tow - all packed up in her leased 2007 Mercedes-Benz MLK30 SUV to her home packed away nicley down on the end of lonley street at the long-left end of the McCutchanville cul-de-sac (or "cok-de-suk" as my dad used to say) that she longs for those days in the early 1980's when she came so close ...so close that she can remember the pen in her hand - to signing her membership to NOW.

But she didn't.

I did however. Joined NOW, the ACLU and a few other leftist college organizations. Why? Because everyone knows - "Who can't score with a left-winger chick?"

Fight the power!