Feminist decries war on women

The Stanford Daily ^ | 15 April 2005 | Ronald Chan

[republicofdavis]

You've really found some fruitcakes today!

[Owl558]

Well guys, she's on to us. I know I'm short on my wife-beating quota this month.

[/sarcasm off]

[freedumb2003]

Carol Li, a second-year law student who had studied under MacKinnon at the University of Chicago where MacKinnon served as a visiting professor, praised her as an iconic figure in feminist legal theory man-bashing.

[G32]

[John Valentine]

Interesting to perennial Sophomores majoring in "Women's Studies" or "Critical Studies". To anyone else this woman is a staggering bore.

[spinestein]

[MacKinnon acknowledged that her speech was intended to provoke thought]



In the same way that a bird craps on your windshield in order to provoke you into washing your car?

[John Valentine]

Interesting to perennial Sophomores majoring in "Women's Studies" or "Critical Studies". To anyone else this woman is a staggering bore.

[Lorianne]

Yes, I have.
It must be hypocrisy week on the Left.

[traderrob6]

I having a hard time typing on the keyboard with my finger down my throat.

[Lorianne]

Nice, nice, kitty.

[softwarecreator]

Feminist decries war on women

Softwarecreator decries war on men.

Film at 11.

Can't we all just get along?

[spinestein]

[Her speech was very loaded and thought-provoking]



In the same way that a toddler's dydees are?

[spinestein]

[She stressed, however, that the war on women is by no means a metaphor.]




Darn. I was wrong twice.

[Spok]

"championed the prohibition of pornography"

I've never understood thei feminist contradiction-does a woman own her own her own body, to do with as she pleases, or not?

[softwarecreator]

In the same way that a toddler's dydees are?

LOL!

Damn, I wish I would of thought that one up.

[Billthedrill]

Incidents similar to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are occurring every day in the United States and around the world...

Vintage McKinnon. Words have only the meaning she intends them to have, else this claim would be hooted off the stage for the nonsensical hyperbole that it most certainly is. Does she mean that women are being killed by men in flaming buildings that have been hit by hijacked jetliners? No, she means "similar." Well, how similar?

It turns out to be not very. The "war" she is describing is largely a collection of her own prejudices hammered out in hallowed cliches that have become canon in Gender Studies departments and tragicomedy in the minds of those thinking men and women unfortunate enough to encounter them in the field. It is a 9/11 that is not a 9/11 that describes a war that is not a war...and this tripe is taken seriously?

It does, however, function as a justification for a very real war that she intends to conduct to counter the imaginary one. This is, and has been, dangerous and destructive doctrine. Intelligent adults can laugh at it - when it works its way into primary and secondary education the children cannot. McKinnon has every intention of conducting her war on boys, not on men, and there are disturbing signs of success.

[spinestein]

[Just like terrorist attacks, acts of violence against women are carefully planned, targeted at civilians and driven by ideology. Gang rape, pornography and other acts that humiliate and repress women are methodically organized; the targeted victims are essentially all civilians; and the misogynist attitude is as ideological as Islamic fundamentalism, MacKinnon contended. “The number of people who died at [the terrorists’] hands is the same as the number of women who die at men’s hands-every year,” she said. “9/11 happens in this very country every year.” ]




She gets SO CLOSE to understanding but doesn't QUITE reach it before she veers away.

[softwarecreator]

Well guys, she's on to us. I know I'm short on my wife-beating quota this month.

LOL!

[Pharmboy]

I HAVE the answer: ARM WOMEN WITH GLOCK 40S. They will take care of themselves.

"God made man and woman. Sam Colt made them equal."