Posted on 05/11/2018 2:32:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
The former attorney general of the state of New York allegedly had a pattern of slapping and choking women with whom he was intimate. He also spat at them, demanded threesomes, insulted them, threatened them and called one (who had dark skin) his "brown slave," according to recent accusations. One woman claims that without warning he slammed her so hard that he broke her eardrum. Another woman says that his palm left a red welt on her face that remained visible the following day.
These and other details about Eric Schneiderman were disclosed by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer in The New Yorker. Keep that in mind the next time someone suggests that the liberal media are untethered to reality and serve only partisan purposes. Schneiderman is not only a Democrat; he was a key Trump antagonist, and a champion of the #MeToo movement.
This has left a number of feminists both furious and bewildered. It's disorienting to see people you admired and assumed to be moral betray everything they supposedly believed in -- something conservative women (and men) have experienced, too. Samantha Bee, who had often lionized Schneiderman on her show, fumed, "This is especially infuriating given his supposed woke bae-ness," she said. "Schneiderman positioned himself as a feminist crusader. He championed the #MeToo Movement. ... He helped craft an anti-choking law, even though he's now accused of choking his girlfriends."
The Huffington Post consulted a psychologist to help explain how it was possible that "male allies" could become "abusers." Katha Pollitt, who once flippantly warned, "Never trust a male feminist," is almost to the point of condemning all men now. "How simple life would be if only conservatives, or liberals ... were abusers," she wrote. "In fact, though, the only thing one can say with assurance is that they're men. Yes, I know women can be abusers, and I know some men are great, but at the moment #NotAllMen is looking more like a wish than a declarative statement."
Samantha Bee's defiant conclusion is: "You know who's a better advocate for women? Women. ... The future really is female, or at least it better be, because I am done with this." Katha Pollitt's resolve is similar: "I have no answers. But here's what I'm going to do: Vote for women. Support women. Protect women. Believe women."
In my forthcoming book (out June 26), "Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense," I push back against this feminist tendency to deride men as a class and to disparage masculinity itself as somehow pathological. In the 1970s, some second-wave feminists, such as Ti-Grace Atkinson, president of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, were so possessed by hatred for men in general that they lost sight of basic morality. Atkinson urged NOW to take up the cause of Valerie Solanas, founder of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men). Solanas shot and attempted to kill Andy Warhol.
The counterculture of the 1960s and '70s broke down social norms, and then regretted what was unleashed. Today, feminists are grappling with the long roster of supposedly "enlightened," i.e., feminist, men who've turned out to be serial abusers or worse. Samantha Bee mentioned "powerful weasels" Harvey Weinstein, Garrison Keillor and Charlie Rose. The roster also includes Louis C.K., Al Franken, John Conyers, Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, Leon Wieseltier, Bill Clinton and many more.
Why are feminists more despairing about these revelations concerning liberal men than conservative women are about equally ugly stories concerning conservative men?
The answer, I'd suggest, is that liberals tend to believe that one's politics and one's morality are the same thing. If you hold the correct views about abortion, the minimum wage, women's equality, gay marriage and guns, it means not just that you agree with me but that you are a good person. A man who champions the #MeToo movement would never hurt a woman, right?
There is some mirror imaging on the right. Some conservative women are stunned to discover that men they thought were adherents of traditional morality turn out to be louts and even rapists.
A key conservative insight is that character is a matter of behavior, not professed beliefs. Judge people by their conduct, not their branding. How do you mold decent conduct? Conscientious parents who teach right from wrong and a culture that reinforces those lessons. The feminists helped to weaken some of the mores and institutions that tended to control male lust and abuse. At the time, they thought they were fighting an unjust "double standard," but the sexual revolution damaged all standards, and we continue to sift through the fallout.
Making sense of it???? Why???
That’s like the joke about two policemen at the scene of a woman’s brutal beat down. She has broken ribs, smashed face, bodily bruises.
One cop looks at the other and says, “I wonder what she said to deserve that?”
Why is it called the "Pound Me Too" Movement?
No clicks for Mona Charen.
...Making Sense of Eric Schneiderman...
Who cares? Really?
As the story unfolds about creepo Schneiderman, we learn:
<><> businessman Trump (then a Democrat) was the go-to guy for Dems wanting campaign contributions:
<><>the money-hungry beggars squeal bigtime on their opponents, other pols, (their own sex lives), to get bigger donations.
<><> S/derman hit Donald up and got $12,500, a nice piece of change; musta been pretty good squealing.
ITEM-—Trump has tweeted S/derman squealed damaging stuff about Obama, Cuomo, maybe Chuckie, maybe other Dems.
BOOM This explains why creepozoid S/derman filed 100 lawsuits against Donald. The craven creepo used Third World tactics to intimidate Donald. The lowlife S/derman like some tinpot dictator, employed the machinery of govt to prevent Donald from exposing S/derman’s stupidity in spilling damaging info about high-ranking Dems.
NEW YORKER EXCERPT Schneiderman’s activism on behalf of feminist causes has increasingly won him praise from women’s groups. On May 1st, the New York-based National Institute for Reproductive Health (NIRH) honored him as one of three “Champions of Choice” at its annual fund-raising luncheon. Accepting the award, Schneiderman said, “If a woman cannot control her body, she is not truly equal.”
But, as a former ex Manning Barish sees it, “you cannot be a champion of women when you are hitting them and choking them in bed, and saying to them, ‘You’re a fucking whore.’ ” She says of Schneiderman’s involvement in the Weinstein investigation, “How can you put a perpetrator in charge of the country’s most important sexual-assault case?”
His brown slave, Selvaratnam describes Schneiderman as “a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” figure. “This is a man who has staked his entire career, his personal narrative, on being a champion for women publicly. But he abuses them privately. He needs to be called out.” Manning Barish notes that many of her friends attended the N.I.R.H. luncheon. “His hypocrisy is epic,” she says. “He’s fooled so many people.” Manning Barish includes herself among them.
NOTE One ex said she let his behavior go unreported b/c “he was such an important Democrat.”
If Schneiderman has a weapons permit, the women coming out of hiding with stories about his deviancy are in peril.
They need to be armed.
Trump on Eric Schneiderman in 2013 tweet: ‘Wait and see, worse than Spitzer or Weiner’.
He resigned.
Proof of guilt
Now the lawyers can go after his fortune
Men espouse feminism to get laid.
Yea, she really disappeared from TV shows. Guess the face lift didn’t take.
Yah but I have seen liberal woman. No thanks.
“Men espouse feminism to get laid.”
Real men though feign interest to get laid when we rather just eat and sleep. A very devious lot we are.lol
VOTE DEMOCRAT 2018
o You Brown Slave !
o Call me Master !
o As I slap you !
— This message brought to you
by Democrat Eric Schneiderman
Hmm. All the male abusers of women are men ...
I wonder how many abusers of women are women and/or fluid generic gender types....and I suppose most male abusers of women have a very high.image of themselves and a low viewpoint of women
All in all....not a very Christian situation....more orwellian
That’s spot on.....only fem/libs dont “get it,” as yet.
“...Making Sense of Eric Schneiderman...”
What’s to know? Just a garden variety filthy democrat politician.
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