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Douchebag Decree: Caitlin Flanagan, our first Douchebag All-Star!

Douchebag Decree post by Andi Zeisler on May 19, 2010 - 10:07pm; tagged antifeminist women, Caitlin Flanagan, Douchebag All-Stars, Douchebag Decree, housewives, motherhood, teen sex, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Twilight.

Sometimes a simple acknowledgment of douchery just isn’t enough. Sometimes you have to step back and marvel at how consistent, how dedicated, how impressively shameless a person’s commitment to being a total asshole is. And that’s why Bitch has decided it’s time to start recognizing those individuals as the All-Star douchebags they are. Practically, it just makes sense: We plan to be awarding Douchebag Decrees for many years to come, and there are some people it would just be easier to mention once, acknowledging that not only have they already amassed an impressive body of douchebaggery, they will surely keep it up for the foreseeable future.

It’s in this spirit that we give a nod today to the lifetime douchechievements of Mrs. Caitlin Flanagan: author, columnist, wife, mother, professional scold, and 24-karat-gold douchebag.

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Queens of the Iron Age

Article by Justine Sharrock, Illustrated by Carrie Christian, appeared in issue Fame & Obscurity; published in 2002; filed under Social commentary; tagged consumer culture, crafting, domesticity, gender roles, housewives, misogyny, post feminism, second wave, third wave.

On the New Feminist Hygiene Products

Fame & Obscurity

When i was 8, my father organized a present for my sisters and me to give my mom for Mother’s Day: a pressure cooker, wrapped up with other fun kitchen items like tea towels, pop-up sponges, spatulas, and an apron. It seemed like a good idea—Mom was the one who was always in the kitchen, and this was the day to celebrate her. But the minute she opened her present, even I knew we had the wrong idea.

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