Reclaiming Beauty from Butch Feminists on Motorcycles

Reclaiming Beauty: Saw Mill River Parkway in New York
[Image from: Saw Mill River Parkway]

At Laura Wood's The Thinking Housewife, a commentator writes about the motorcycle death of:

Mary Thom, former editor of Ms. Magazine and a guiding force of the American feminist movement.

Her obituary in the New York Times reads:

Ms. Thom never married, and her friends said her true love was her motorcycle, a 1996 Honda Magna 750. On it, she zipped around town — to dinners in the West Village, feminist talks, and back home to her apartment on the Upper West Side.

On Friday, she was riding on the Saw Mill River Parkway shortly after 4 p.m. when she hit a car, throwing her onto the road, the Westchester County police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Like one of Laura's correspondents, I laughed out loud that this "true love" of hers failed her at the end.

Another correspondent notes:

It always bothers me to read about a feminist (particularly a butch one) named "Mary." Such a beautiful name.

That was my second thought, after I got over the Monty Pythonesque imagery I had for a few seconds.

The simple and lovely two-syllable name holds so much within those few letters. We should have a law that only Christians can have that name. At baptism, priests should make it clear that if the girl, once grown, wishes to keep the name, she has to show regular commitment to her faith. Otherwise, a priestly committee will not deem the name worthy of her, and will remove it.

Take that, committees of feminists.

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Hell's Grannies take on the town on their motorcycles (don't mind the first few seconds, the punchline of the joke is "Boo").

Starting around the 3:40 point:



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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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