Posted on 03/08/2017 1:30:43 PM PST by drewh
Before International Women's Day, when anti-Trump protesters planned to strike for "A Day Without A Woman," actress Cate Blanchett said that her moral compass is "in my vagina."
"It's all about, as you move forward in life, what's your moral compass — where does kindness and humanity sit in a really brutal world?" Blanchett, best known for her role as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, said on "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert.
Colbert asked her, "What is your moral compass? Where does kindness and humanity sit in a brutal world?"
"It's in my vagina," Blanchett quipped, as the audience broke out in laughter and applause. The actress then pretended to leave the set, as if she'd said all there was to say.
Blanchett's statement was intended as a joke, but it arguably reveals the mentality of much of the "women's movement" against President Donald Trump. Protesters involved in "A Day Without a Woman," organized by the same people behind the "Women's March" after Trump's inauguration, seem driven by a less-than-rational anger at the sitting president.
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The event's website described the event as standing up against the forces of "fear, greed and hatred." As International Women's Day began, Trump himself tweeted his respect and honor for women, which might seem surprising to those protesting him as the ultimate misogynistic bogeyman.
But there is an explanation for this sub-rational marshaling of protesters, and it comes in Blanchett's own words. At the "Women's March," hundreds of women — and men! — dressed in vagina costumes, and there was a campaign to knit "pussyhats" beforehand. In a world where "The Vagina Monologues" are considered "empowering," this might not come as a surprise so much as a national cultural embarrassment.
There are feminists who identify with a certain part of their anatomy, and they do indeed act as though that is their "moral compass."
Indeed, the Huffington Post's Rebecca Shapiro called the vagina-moral compass declaration "another reason to love Cate Blanchett."
But what does this declaration say about feminism, the anti-Trump marches, and American society in general? What does it tell America's boys, who lack that most sacred of conscientious body parts? What do these protests tell the children whose schools have been cancelled because teachers care more about a political statement than they do about educating children? What do these messages tell employers who see their workers demanding leave for an ostensibly moral cause?
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While some see a triumph for women, others see degradation. PJ Media's Susan L.M. Goldberg explained how the "Women's March" "reinforced every negative stereotype about women ever." Debra Heine noted that the "Day Without A Woman" should really be called "A Day Without Left-Wing Women Who Vote Democrat And Want Bigger Government Controlling Everyone's Lives."
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Precisely. She is basing her morality on sexual urgings. Is there any other way to take the comment that a woman’s moral compass in between her legs?
...and her GM angle is 180 degrees from sanity.
Well, it has to be somewhere because it’s certainly not in your brain, you under-talented, over-paid narcissist.
Still waiting for the National Day Without Men when the entire country will be shut down.
Just sayin'....
A lot of Women have lost their moral compass.
What I know about people is that how one acts is how one will be treated. By decent society anyway.
Being female I can sometimes relate to being discriminated against, more so in the distant past but women ( mainly feminist liberal progressives) of today in my opinion have lost their minds.
Today as it stands if women didn’t have certain parts to their anatomy they would probably have a bounty on their heads. I AM JOKING!
I agree with Trump. Some women are just nasty. My mother called it being nasty-gutted.
So flame away all.
Then does your “moral compass” smell like a day old tuna sandwich? Just asking.. I mean you brought it up....
Her morals are determined by something that can’t tell a sophisticated silicone electronic device from a d*ck.
Hearing something like that would change the polarity pointing it due South.
Just upping her hollywood brownie points..
It does explain why nobody has seen it......
right next to her brain.... in the rear compartment....
where is her cell phone...??? and ez pass...???
No wonder she’s lost.
I am lost and alone in my snowflake life. Can I use her compass to guide me to nirvana?? ;)
Where does she keep her loose change?
Spoken like a true whore.
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