Posted on 11/24/2009 3:10:21 PM PST by Slyfox
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 sheild 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.
When Sarah is the candidate for the Republicans, it will be hard to attract young women to the left and their platform.
SO? Worth repeating. Sheeshhh
Fairness and civility have been hallmarks of the Conservative philosophy. For me, that's done.
From this point, I care NOTHING about the feelings of any Leftist. Anybody can call an Obama supporter any name they want, and I will not censure him. Anybody wants to discriminate against an Obama supporter, I will not object. I declare them outside my protection in all ways.
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The leftists have grossly underestimated the American people. The backlash against totalitarian marxist government will be hugh, and series.
I think you might be right. According to the left, Sarah is bad because she supports the conservative platform, which includes keeping women out of positions of power. This makes no sense, and women across the board should notice. Maybe they’ll see that the powerful women are coming from the right.
Praise her for seeing the light and now spreading the word, don’t bash her for once being ignorant or naive.
Well, I'm glad that Robin has discovered the truth on this one, but, to be honest, for anyone with the eyes to see and brain to think, it about as obvious as the sun coming up every morning. I have never encountered a male supporter of "abortion rights" who, when pressed, didn't admit that the reason the supported abortion was to preserve the option of paying off a woman not to bear their child and so be relieved of any long-term financial obligation. It's about sex and money with these sleazebags, nothing more. Few things on this Earth can be more despicable scum than a man who would use a woman in this way and pay her to kill her child.
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Dead on target.
As some leftist swine in the UK said, don’t you know the strong attractive women like Palin and Bachman are just a pretty face on the conservative evil, designed to fool unsuspecting people?
If the left wasn’t so dangerous they would be hilarious.
Fabulous! As a long-time conservative, I knew many of these individual facts about the left. But hearing it from someone who “came out from among them” is just amazing, because it gave me a whole new sense of connectedness between several seemingly unrelated dots. I get now the dark motivation for the method of attack on Palin, which had eluded me, operating as it did at a subliminal level. I am in debt to you, Robin of Berkeley.
Good read here.
Bookmarked -- on FR and on my browser...
FWIW, I've been on FR most of the day -- and, yet, I missed the earlier posting. Thanks for the second chance!
I particularly appreciated this genuine truth on abortion:
"...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."
It must be like coming out from being hypnotized for most of ones life ... whenever a liberal wakes up and becomes conservative.
Amazing article. We see this acted out in the news everyday. Ugly, mean, snide, demeaning, comments from lots of well known names, attacking Sarah. Maratha Stewart, David Letterman (every single show, most of their comments were laid on Bush and Reagan too, constantly. They have no grace. And can not be expected to change ever.
God bless Sarah, protect her and strengthen her, keep her safe, in Jesus name, amen.
“And the eagerness for women to make good money? If women work hard, leftist men don’t have to.”
I believe I heard Rush say this a decade ago — or read it in one of his books. Except that now it’s not just “leftist men”; nearly all men have bought into this. When men stopped taking pride in providing for their families, the homes became weaker. IMHO...
I wonder what they would say the conservative evil is.
I have to believe people will eventually grow tired of this nonsense.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Outstanding. Thanks for this post.
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