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.
Brilliant...love it.
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What a great post!
Her part about liberals name-calling Hillary (I guess Obama supporters) disappointing her made me feel left out. Us conservatives also have a few choice words for Hillary and what she stands for.
The word "wilding" really evokes potent imagery. I'm sure none of us will forget the relentless savage attacks on the women in Central Park. And this image of "wilding", as a metaphor, in relation to Sarah Palin, fits so perfectly. The Left has been relentless in their attacks on her. Using everything they can think of to attack her -- calling her names (slutty flight attendant), her Down Syndrome baby (is the child really hers), her wayward daughter (jokes about being knocked-up), her way of speaking ("you betcha"), Levi Johnson (who is now the "go-to" authority on Sarah Palin), etc etc -- it really IS a wilding, in the way they go after her, relentlessly, day after day, using any and all means to attack her, to try and take her down.
I don't know where she gets the strength to deal with it all. All I know is, she is still standing.
I think this was the most poignant statement from Robin's article. We have to neutralize this emasculation.
What we have to realize is that the legacy Ronald Reagan gave to us is his example. Sarah is one person who is standing on his shoulders. We must all join her there.
Ronald Reagan has all the strength we will ever need.
All over the US there are strong women like Sarah who do not run when their family is attacked. People like that tend to put a crimp in the leftist vision for America, and are considered to be more dangerous than anyone on FBI's most wanted list.
I whole-heartedly agree.
Now all the woman needs to do is turn to GOD and surrender to CHRIST for eternal salvation.
The new American civil war is not "us" against the police or the army. It is "us" against the Liberal Elite who mock us, diminish us and, then, tax the hell out of us to support their social utopia while they wallow in the world's wealth and privilege. We are becoming their serfs. They are becoming our Marie Antoinette!
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Point well taken...."We were all so much older then, we're younger than that now...." Dylan.
Yes, and to a less malevolent extent it is a practice of some on the Right in regard to Sarah Palin.
Wow that was the best post I have read in a long time.
This should be on the front page of the NYT !!
Wow that was the best post I have read in a long time.
This should be on the front page of the NYT !!
Wow that was the best post I have read in a long time.
This should be on the front page of the NYT !!
I hope when the revolution comes, we don't go as overboard and punishing everyone as happened then. Let's make sure only guilty are punished.
Thanks Slyfox. A great article. I’ve read a few others from Robin of Berkeley and they are also very good. I’d recommend them to others, including the one where she describes the events which forced her to reject her liberal past.
Well, maybe some people like myself never saw it. It’s OK if there is a duplicate now and then...if it’s a great article such as this one it SHOULD bear repeating so as many people as possible can see it.
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