Feminism On Parade

I love women, but I hate feminists. Imagine the immense scorn a man would face if he openly described himself as a "masculist." The day an equal amount of scorn is heaped on feminists is the day they will have achieved their stated goal of equality, but that's hardly what they want. Feminism is a toxic byproduct of a society grown accustomed to prosperity and ease, similar to the diabetes that afflicts people who consume too much sugar. Like leftism in general, feminism believes that the harsh realities of life are evil conspiracies, thus conceiving of prosperity and ease as the rules rather than the exceptions they truly are. Ironically, if feminists keep getting their way and knocking the pillars out from under the society that supports them, they will get re-acquainted with harsh reality much faster than they might like.

Let us consider feminist attorney Gloria Allred, who wants Rush Limbaugh to be criminally prosecuted for chastising a young woman who demanded that Congress facilitate her sex life. According to Allred, the young woman was innocently engaging in her right of free speech, but Rush went beyond the pale of allowable discourse in shaming her. The truth, as usual, is the exact opposite. The young woman was asking Congress to do something beyond its constitutional authority and reminiscent of slavery, i.e., to force others to facilitate her lifestyle. Her speech called for an attack on society. That kind of conduct can and should be shamed if there's any hope of preserving what's left of Western civilization, which isn't much. Rush was the one truly engaging in free speech, for he was not demanding that force or violence be directed against anyone -- he was merely stating his mind to anyone who would listen.

Thus government considers attacking society, and when a member of society complains about it, government considers attacking him for daring to resist. If this is what feminism perceives as justice, it has accomplished more than I ever could to illustrate its hysterical and totalitarian nature. Feminists are bullies, and like all bullies, they are cowards -- they love to hit, but they run for help as soon as someone hits back.

There is even more irony to be found here because Allred seeks to use a patriarchal legal doctrine to pursue her feminist ends. Under the old (and presumably hated) patriarchy, it was slanderous to publicly accuse a woman of being unchaste. This was back when unchastity was considered shameful, which it no longer is (if anything, it is the chaste who are now singled out for ridicule). Now that a man has hit back, feminism flees to the patriarchy for protection. Even if the archaic legal doctrine Allred cites could steamroll the modern interpretation of the First Amendment, the doctrine doesn't apply to what Rush said. All he did was hang a label on the known facts that the woman admitted to Congress; he made no hint or suggestion of what she does in her private life beyond what she herself stated. This is not defamation.