#1 2009-11-26 10:44:44
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November 24, 2009
The Wilding of Sarah Palin
By Robin of Berkeley
When I was in college, I read a book that changed my life. It was Susan Brownmiller's tome, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which explained rape as an act of power instead of just lust. What I found particularly chilling was the chapter on war -- how rape is used to terrorize a population and destroy the enemy's spirit.
While edifying, the book magnified the vulnerability I already felt as a female. Fear of rape became a constant dread, and I sought a solution that would help shield me from danger.
The answer: seek safe harbor within the Democratic Party. I even became an activist for feminist causes, including violence against women. Liberalism would protect me from the big, bad conservatives who wished me harm.
Like for most feminists, it was a no-brainer for me to become a Democrat. Liberal men, not conservatives, were the ones devoted to women's issues. They marched at my side in support of abortion rights. They were enthusiastic about women succeeding in the workplace.
As time went on, I had many experiences that should have made me rethink my certainty. But I remained nestled in cognitive dissonance -- therapy jargon for not wanting to see what I didn't want to see.
One clue: the miscreants who were brutalizing me didn't exactly look Reagan-esque. In middle and high schools, they were minority kids enraged about forced busing. On the streets of New York City and Berkeley, they were derelicts and hoodlums.
Another red flag: while liberal men did indeed hold up those picket signs, they didn't do anything else to protect me. In fact, their social programs enabled bad behavior and bred chaos in urban America. And when I was accosted by thugs, those leftist men were missing in action.
What else should have tipped me off? Perhaps the fact that so many men in ultra-left Berkeley are sleazebags. Rarely a week goes by that I don't hear stories from my young female clients about middle-aged men preying on them. With the rationale of moral relativism, these creeps feel they can do anything they please.
What finally woke me up were the utterances of "bitch," "witch," and "monster" toward Hillary Clinton and her supporters early last year. I was shocked into reality: the trash-talk wasn't coming from conservatives, but from male and female liberals.
I finally beheld what my eyes had refused to see: that leftists are Mr. and Ms. Misogyny. Neither the males nor the females care a whit about women.
Women are continually sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. If under radical Islam women are enshrouded and stoned and beheaded, so be it.
My other epiphanies: those ponytailed guys were marching for abortion rights not because they cherished women's reproductive freedom, but to keep women available for free and easy sex.
And the eagerness for women to make good money? If women work hard, leftist men don't have to.
Then along came Sarah, and the attacks became particularly heinous. And I realized something even more chilling about the Left. Leftists not only sacrifice and disrespect women, but it's far worse: many are perpetuators.
The Left's behavior towards Palin is not politics as usual. By their laser-focus on her body and her sexuality, leftists are defiling her.
They are wilding her. And they do this with the full knowledge and complicity of the White House.
The Left has declared war on Palin because she threatens their existence. Liberals need women dependent and scared so that women, like blacks, will vote Democrat.
A strong, self-sufficient woman, Palin eschews liberal protection. Drop her off in the Alaskan bush and she'll survive just fine, thank you very much. Palin doesn't need or want anything from liberals -- not hate crimes legislation that coddles her, and not abortion, which she abhors.
Palin is a woman of deep and abiding faith. She takes no marching orders from messiah-like wannabes like Obama.
And so the Left must try to destroy her. And they are doing this in the most malicious of ways: by symbolically raping her.
Just like a perpetuator, they dehumanize her by objectifying her body. They undress her with their eyes.
They turn her into a piece of ass.
Liberals do this by calling her a c__t, ogling her legs, demeaning her with names like "slutty flight attendant" and "Trailer Park Barbie," and exposing her flesh on the cover of Newsweek.
And from Atlantic Magazine's Andrew Sullivan "Sarah Palin's vagina is the font of all evil in the galaxy."
Nothing is off-limits, not actress Sandra Bernhard's wish that Palin be gang-raped or the sexualization of Palin's daughters.
As every woman knows, leering looks, lurid words, and veiled threats are intended to evoke terror. Sexual violence is a form of terrorism.
The American Left has a long history of defiling people to control and break them. The hard core '60s leftists were masters of guerrilla warfare, like the Symbionese Liberation Army repeatedly raping Patty Hearst. Huey P. Newton sent a male Black Panther to the hospital, bloodied and damaged from a punishment of sodomy.
The extreme Left still consider themselves warriors, righteous soldiers for their Marxist cause. With Palin, they use sexual violence as part of their military arsenal.
Palin is not the only intended victim. As Against Our Will described, the brutality is also aimed at men. By forcing men to witness Palin's violation, the Left tries to emasculate conservative men and render them powerless.
The wilding of any woman is reprehensible. But defiling a mother of five with a babe in her arms, and a grandmother to boot, is particularly obscene. It is, of course, Palin's unapologetic motherhood that fuels the leftist fire.
Because as a mother and a fertile woman, Palin is as close to the sacred as a person gets. She is not just politically pro-life. Her whole being emanates life, which is a stark contrast to the darkness of the Left, the life-despoilers.
These "progressives" are so alienated from the sacred that they perceive nothing as sacred. And they will destroy anyone whose goodness shines a mirror on their pathology. The spiritually barren must annihilate the vital and the fertile.
It has been almost two years since I woke up and broke up with liberalism. During these many months, I've discovered that everything I believed was wrong.
But the biggest shock of all has been realizing that the Democratic Party is hardly an oasis for women. Now that it has been infiltrated by the hard Left, it's a dangerous place for women, children, and other living things.
In the wilding of Sarah Palin, the Left shows its true colors. Rather than shield the vulnerable, leftists will mow down any man, woman, or child who gets in their way. Instead of a movement of hope and change, it is a cauldron of hate.
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
In these dark times, with spiritually bankrupt people at the helm, thank God we have bright lights like Sarah Palin to illuminate the darkness.
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#2 2009-11-26 12:28:29
By Robin of Berkeley
Have "scholars" taken to naming themselves like Renaissance artists now?
So the author considers herself more a woman than a Democrat and is realizing that the Dems are no more high minded than any other mud slinging political party. At least she understands that embracing moral relativism and and the praise of self-imposed victimization is no way to feel good about yourself at the end of the day.
But it smells like attention whoring to me, especially being from Berkley. If I had read the same thing from a more moderate university, I would give it more credit, even if I agree with most of her points.
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#3 2009-11-26 12:36:28
I'd respond to this drivel, but I'm busy cooking up some Thanksgiving mischief in my cauldron of hate.
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#4 2009-11-26 13:43:42
So basically she read a book and suddenly was more scared about rape, and then met some idealistic liberals and decided that all liberals were nice people and feminists, then she realized that some of them were assholes when she heard Sarah Palin and decided that all liberals are actually assholes that enable bad behavior.
I'm reminded of a quote by the immortal David St. Hubbins:
"I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything."
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#5 2009-11-26 13:58:19
“Robin of Berkley” is so far out in loony territory it’s hard to know where to begin. I’m going to start by saying both the Left and the Right have skeletons in their closets and crazy aunts who live in the attic. Susan Brownmiller is one of the Left’s crazy aunts; she took a legitimate concern for all women, mixed in paranoia and hatred for men, and created a demented worldview to explain current events and history.
Robin makes the mistake of conflating minority thugs with liberals. Minority thugs, whether of the high school variety or the adult gang variety, don’t have a political agenda for their destructive behaviors. The Symbionese Liberation Army was nothing more than a gang run by a demented negro thug. Huey P. Newton was just another negro thug like the rest of the Black Panthers, interested in shaking people and organizations down for protection money. Both groups used a bit of leftist cant to justify their actions and bamboozle the gullible.
She can’t tell the difference between amorality, immorality, and situation ethics and conflates them all into the same thing. Both the Left and the Right have predatory individuals and organizations who will use and destroy people for their own purposes or for selfish gratification. This is a human, not an ideological failing.
Her main thesis is about the Politics of Personal Destruction as used against women. She seems to forget who brought this back into vogue. I remember Hillary being referred to as a Lesbian Witch, Cunt, and Murderous Lady Macbeth while she was the First Lady. These attacks have continued since she left the White House.
There are any number of other flaws with this essay and Robin’s worldview, but I’m going to stop here.
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#6 2009-11-26 15:49:13
blah blah blah. Did anyone actually finish reading that whole pile of tripe?
GOBBLE GOBBLE MOTHERFUCKERS!
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#8 2009-11-27 09:42:10
It's only a little forced sex, people need to get over this whole obsession with demonizing rape. Jeez I know girls who beg to have it done that way....
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#9 2009-12-01 20:27:08
Anybody know where I can find a copy of 'Go Ask Alice"? Reading that article brought nostalgic waves of warmth washing over me for the innocent carefree days of my youth, when I knew for the first time that I could truly rely on my built-in bullshit detector to protect me from obvious propaganda......
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#10 2009-12-01 20:38:16
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.
OINK OINK MOTHERFUCKERS.
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#11 2009-12-01 20:57:29
Emmeran wrote:
It's only a little forced sex, people need to get over this whole obsession with demonizing rape. Jeez I know girls who beg to have it done that way....
I would be willing to help these girls out if you are having trouble keeping up with demand.
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#12 2009-12-02 00:22:29
Bigcat wrote:
Emmeran wrote:
It's only a little forced sex, people need to get over this whole obsession with demonizing rape. Jeez I know girls who beg to have it done that way....
I would be willing to help these girls out if you are having trouble keeping up with demand.
So, besides the misogyny, tell us how you really feel about women.
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#13 2009-12-02 00:47:20
sigmoid freud wrote:
Bigcat wrote:
Emmeran wrote:
It's only a little forced sex, people need to get over this whole obsession with demonizing rape. Jeez I know girls who beg to have it done that way....
I would be willing to help these girls out if you are having trouble keeping up with demand.
So, besides the misogyny, tell us how you really feel about women.
As a man coming of age in the '80's this was actually a very difficult thing to accomodate. I've actually had women leave me for being too "nice". It took me many years to understand that straight women weren't looking for some gentle, sensitive guy; the majority were looking for a real man to reassure them of their fragile womanhood while they ventured into corporate life. I've learned to understand the women that I attract, often they are the corporate high-rollers looking for a manly man; I gave in, enjoyed it and gave them what they needed.
We all have roles to fulfill, modern sociologists be damned; we're still just men and women.
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#14 2009-12-02 06:29:27
Emmeran wrote:
I've actually had women leave me for being too "nice". It took me many years to understand that straight women weren't looking for some gentle, sensitive guy . . .
Yeah - De-Spite the fact that the majority of wo-men claim they only want a nice, sensitive, guy, they generally tend to be with the most a-busive ass-holes.
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