Feb 27 2009
Ever Wonder Why…
feminism takes two steps forward and four steps backward?
Because, the following freak opens her mouth:
Catharine MacKinnon’s new book Are Women Human?. She writes: “The fact that the law of rape protects rapists and is written from their point of view to guarantee impunity for most rapes is officially regarded as a violation of the law of sex equality, national or international, by virtually nobody.”
Are you suggesting that rape law enshrines rapists’ points of view, I ask MacKinnon? “Yes, in a couple of senses. The most obvious sense is that most rapists are men and most legislators are men and most judges are men and the law of rape was created when women weren’t even allowed to vote. So that means not that all the people who wrote it were rapists, but that they are a member of the group who do [rape] and who do for reasons that they share in common even with those who don’t, namely masculinity and their identification with masculine norms and in particular being the people who initiate sex and being the people who socially experience themselves as being affirmed by aggressive initiation of sexual interaction.” She takes a well-earned breath.
If this is the crack pot, new generations of women are still looking up to for their feminist fix, we are in a world of hurt. Please check your coats at the door, sit down, get hit with an egg, and leave the building immediately. A lawyer by trade and a bra burning era feminist, MacKinnon is immediately excused to the nearest exit as well, but not before I throw the final egg that chases her, and her crypt keeping epitaph cronies off the stage, and out of the feminist forum.
Camille Paglia, who I revere as the ultimate feminist and true to the cause, would agree with me, that totalitarian excess in the feminist movement hinders, more than it helps.
You can thank MacKinnon and Dworkin for putting the fear of God in men that simply want to compliment you on your outfit at work, but do not thank them for finding justice when sexism is more subtle and behind closed doors, as when a female is blatantly passed up for promotion.
They don’t roll that way.
MacKinnon and Dworkin are the Al Sharptons of feminism. Ego, more than righteous servitude, feeds their grossly inflated contentions on issues such as pornography and sexual harassment, which turns their logic into nothing more than hot air that very few are willing to swallow, before the realization settles in that they are being smothered by moral turpitude.
Rape is an act of violence and not discriminatory based on gender, although more women are willing to report rape than men, adolescents, and small children, so it may seem one sided. Laws were not created to protect this behavior and to say otherwise only proves the point that a lawyer just likes hearing their voice no matter how ludicrous it sounds.
As far as battling pornography, MacKinnon needs to put down the Playboys and Penthouses and get in her time machine to catch up. She needs to log into Xtube and Youtube for free, and notice the women on these sites are not alone. They have a very willing male partner, sometimes more, to show off their bedside perversions to anyone willing to watch.
The argument of women being a profit ‘thing’ is mute when modern society women are doing it willingly and for free.
This Yaley from the 70s could be fighting human trafficking, in second and third world countries and even our own, but she likes sporting designer duds these days, and impoverished young girls, that need a voice, can’t afford a lawyer.
