When Rape Fantasies Involve Conservative Women, Feminists Are Silent
The comments here disgust me as much as the actual Playboy article.
Fighting hate (directed by liberal men towards conservative women) with hate (directed towards liberal, feminist women) is absurd, pointless, and nobody wins. That Playboy dreck shouldn’t have been published; it might be legal for it to be published, but it broke the limits of human decency. Blaming women for not standing up and calling Playboy out is like blaming the rape victim. There ARE liberal women blogging about this, outraged There ARE conservative women blogging about this, equally (if not even more) outraged. But there are women on both sides of the fence staying silent. No one is to blame in this debacle except some writer at Playboy and the editor who gave it a pass. And now, commenters here.
I’m a feminist and a liberal. (It should be noted these are two separate entities. There are conservative feminists, such as the authors of the site Smart Girl Politics.) According to the people here I am self-centered and interested in the destruction of family and men (#7), ugly and jealous (#27), ride the coattails of men (#16), not a REAL woman as well as lacking in motherly instincts (#58), and should just shut up (#4). That’s just a few of the things directed towards feminists in the comments.
(By the way, I’m college educated, got a degree in mathematics with a minor in political science, and graduated with honors. I am married to a man who earns more than I do, is his own wonderful person, and was a self-declared feminist before I met him.)
