No Mommie Dearest, She

The Wreck of Feminist Hollywood – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

I’ll begrudge feminism one thing. Like communism, it won’t go down without a fight. Both ideologies are indivisibly wedded to the other. Both promise a suicidal solution to fabricated oppression. Both leave nothing but misery in their wake. And both caused the deaths of tens of millions, even if feminists refuse to acknowledge their 65-million baby victims as ever having lived. But although communists once tried and failed to take over Hollywood…

No Mommie Dearest, She

By Bruce Bawer It’s not certain when Joan Crawford was born — various sources say 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, and 1908 (that’s showbiz) — but she definitely died in 1977, and just a year later her image as one of the most beloved stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood took an atomic-level hit when her adopted daughter Christine Crawford published Mommie Dearest. It depicted Joan as a controlling, emotionally unstable mother, was the first of a long li…