Glenn Greenwald explains:
In connection with that post I wrote, it is critical to keep in mind why so many right-wing followers have this compulsive need to feminize Democrats and liberals while (both explicitly and by effect) masculinizing themselves. It is virtually always revealing, whenever this pathetic feminizing tactic is used, to examine the individuals who are using it. In virtually every case, the motivation behind this tactic -- the personal need that it fulfills -- becomes painfully obvious. It is always about the Feminizer, never about the target.Actually Edwards doesn't look half bad in that Breck ad.....
Update 3/12:
Being a woman, I think I can feminize without danger. Look what I found on these here internetal tubes:

