Take Back the Judith Light!

Pardon me. I don't pretend to speak for all feminists out there--heck, I don't even know what language some of them speak*--but I am of the opinion that we should be dancing in the fucking streets at the announcement that DISH Network has dropped the Lifetime Channel, not protesting the supposed injustice. What, precisely, are DISH subscribers losing here? How Clean Is Your House? Suddenly Susan? TERROR IN THE MALL!!?!?!?!**

What is the rationale for this call to arms? When they came for Mother May I Sleep With Danger I said nothing because I was not Tori Spelling.... No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

No.

If middle-aged women in Middle America--who probably don't even consider themselves feminists--can't watch The Nanny on an endless loop all day, we will not be sliding down some slippery slope into a simulacra pre-Suffrage "rule of thumb" era. There are too many other things to worry about. These are trivialities. What's worse, they dilute and demean the work and the messages that NOW is trying to communicate.

Jesus.

*Yes, that is, as you suspected, a lame Breakfast Club reference.
**Please go read the second customer review: "Having lived through my own disaster at the mall (well, the parking lot, at least)..."