"I'm very much an equality - equal opportunity feminist- but I draw the line at the sort of hard line view..."
Poor Ms. Sommers, she can't seem to understand how her idealist views were not the end of the radical rope - that it dangled further down into the abysmal depths; so far, in fact, that she is appalled at the new radicalism. Another woman - more perceptive - wrote about this a few years back:
“The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "BUT I DIDN'T MEAN THIS!” ― Ayn Rand
All in all a very good presentation. However, I couldn't help but notice that as an example of REAL patriarchal abuse she repeatedly used Iran and Yemen. NEVER mentioned Saudi Arabia, the WORST offender. Huh, I thinks. Then my focus shifted to the backdrop. AEI. Oh, I get it.
"I'm very much an equality - equal opportunity feminist- but I draw the line at the sort of hard line view..."
ReplyDeletePoor Ms. Sommers, she can't seem to understand how her idealist views were not the end of the radical rope - that it dangled further down into the abysmal depths; so far, in fact, that she is appalled at the new radicalism. Another woman - more perceptive - wrote about this a few years back:
“The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "BUT I DIDN'T MEAN THIS!” ― Ayn Rand
30 girls so fragile they went into a panic attack? Because a woman questions the existence of "patriarchy?"
ReplyDeleteGive em a good spanking and send em to bed without supper.
And here I thought feminism was objecting to being seen and treated as the weaker sex.
ReplyDeleteMy chauvinism is writhing against the ties I’ve bound it…… can’t live with ‘em and can’t... DOWN chauvinism, DOWN!
All in all a very good presentation. However, I couldn't help but notice that as an example of REAL patriarchal abuse she repeatedly used Iran and Yemen. NEVER mentioned Saudi Arabia, the WORST offender. Huh, I thinks. Then my focus shifted to the backdrop. AEI. Oh, I get it.
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