Friday, June 03, 2005

ARE LIBERAL MEN JUST A BUNCH OF MYSOGYNISTIC cavemen? So says Cristina Odone, who wrote this column, which appeared in my inbox courtesy of my dearly Befuddled.

Odone draws on personal experience with liberal men, before delving into the person she refers to as the "champion" of leftist misogyny, Slick Willy himself, who is the subject of Their Lives: the Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine by Candice E. Jackson.

The catalogue of Mr Clinton’s conquests is well known, the crassness of his come-ons much reported. Yet until now no one had asked why it was that when Judge Clarence Thomas allegedly made his remarks about oral sex to a fellow lawyer, Anita Hill, feminist critics went for the jugular, while the former President, despite repeated allegations of far more serious sexual misconduct, went unchallenged by them. The campaign against the black conservative judge and the cover-up of the white President were orchestrated by the same powerful groups — feminists and the liberal media.

Ms Jackson, who describes herself as a libertarian feminist, shows how, because Mr Clinton was pro-choice, pro-equal pay, pro-state-funded childcare, he could count on the complicity of women (and men) who would normally have delighted in blowing the whistle on a male sexual predator. As with the similarly priapic and disreputable Kennedy clan, Mr Clinton’s track record on social issues protected him from being outed as a serial misogynist.

Oh how this column harkens me back.

For me, the Bill Clinton episode was a very enlightening one in regards to modern feminism. Feminists proved that they are much more interested in what one says, than what one does. It's not that they despise atrocious behaviors like rape and sexual harassment, it's that only conservatives engage in them.

It isn't rape, or harassment, or simply crass behavior when liberals do it, because they toe the party line. In that sense, isn't modern feminism a victim of "rape," or a "rapist" even, in it's entirety?

They just agree to keep their mouth shut as long as the favors keep rolling in.

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