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Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Neo-Porn Feminists - Or, how the Left destroyed feminism.

From National Review Online:
It turns out that, in the rock-paper-scissors game of liberalism, “not judging” beats out “true female equality.”

The good folks at Politically Correct Central recently ran into a problem: Their incredibly useful “don’t judge!” mantra (which they have mercilessly hammered us with for many years now) ran into an obstacle: What happens when a woman willingly engages in the porn industry? Liberals, who once decried porn (and rightly so) as a male-dominated nightmare that objectifies women and exploits even its willing participants, have suddenly tiptoed backwards in the wake of Belle Knox, a Duke University freshman who gladly stars in porn films to cover her tuition costs.

What to do? thought the puzzled liberals. Standing against the sex industry would sound too “Christian Right”; also, criticizing the woman would effectively be siding with the frat boys who outed her — and, if there is any demographic we liberals hate, it’s male Duke students. (Remember the Duke-lacrosse case?) So, they concluded, let’s not be judgy.

Thus we suddenly found ourselves clicking on bizarre headlines — and watching equally confusing TV segments — in which liberal pundits and writers suddenly were perfectly okay with an industry that is anathema to their alleged values.

But the debate over feminism — what it means, as well as who can claim the feminist label —​ had been steaming for quite some time and was bound to explode sooner or later. You see, along the way, feminism became an inconvenience for the Left. Case in point: Some of its favorite celebs, who could always be counted on to publicly slam the Right or Western values, were all too happy to behave in sex-object ways that would make even the worst Mad Men misogynist say, “Tone it down.” Madonna and Miley Cyrus come to mind.

Thus, feminism’s definition needed to be twisted, contorted, and —​ basically — changed. And change it did: It became so elastic that the rubber band finally snapped and no one knows what the heck feminism means any longer.
Feminism and liberalism has never been able to defend themselves intellectually. The argument have been shallow and vapid. Watch any debate on any political TV show, as soon as the liberal starts losing, they resort to demagoguing and name calling. Something like Godwin's Law must be enforced during these debates, to truly show how intellectually inept defenders of liberalism are.

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