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Posted on 02/24/2014 7:19:00 PM PST by ReformationFan
Hey, gals, want to avoid being raped? Put away that Lady Smith 38. No need for pepper spray. Self-defense classes? Not necessary. The solution is simple. The best defense against rape is to just cast away your "deeply troubling" Christianity and become a secularist slut.
So goes the advice of one Katie McDonough, Salon.com assistant editor, fertile fount of millennial wisdom and – well – and whatever else.
In an article published at Salon Feb. 20 titled, "The right's warped 'purity' culture: 4 ways evangelical views of sex took over America," Ms. McDonough provides an unvarnished glimpse into the profligate mind of the postmodern "progressive." (Yes, you read that right. Purity is warped and biblical sexual morality has taken over America.)
In what amounts to little more than an anti-Christian hit piece on Patrick Henry College – or "God's Harvard" as the evidently prone-position-prone journo pejoratively pokes – Ms. McDonough says that it's time for American women to reject all those biblically imposed "gender complementarian" norms and do away with our "toxic purity culture" once and for all. (Because, just look around. That dang ol' toxic purity is everywhere. What America really needs is more debauchery.)
It gets better.
Christianity causes rape, McDonough asserts, warning us that we suffer a "convergence of rape culture (whatever that is) and evangelical culture."
Get that? In this woman's "progressive" mind, when the lady says, "I'm saving myself for marriage," the bad guy hears, "Come and get it!" Still, Ms. McDonough does have this much right: It can't be rape if you're giving it away like peanuts on the plane.
She goes on: "While it may be tempting to draw a red line around Christian fundamentalist views on gender and sexuality to distinguish them from supposedly evolved 'secular' culture, there is considerable, uncomfortable overlap between the two." (The cognitive dissonance: It hurts!)
So, if I'm understanding her right – and, admittedly, Ms. McDonough's screed is borderline coherent – what she's essentially claiming is that, when it comes to sex, both secular America and Christian America are really just one big ball of puritanical prudery.
In fairness, I suppose she could actually believe this. It's all relative with the relativist. For the "anything goes"-type, Miley Cyrus may well be indistinguishable from the Virgin Mary. When you're colorblind, everything looks kinda gray.
She continues: "Evangelical Christianity makes visible – through purity pledges and doctrine assigning women the role of man's 'helpmate' – the norms and expectations about female virginity and subservience that so often remain hidden in the secular world." (Ooh. Loves me some man-hate.)
So, get it? Purity and virginity bad. Impurity and promiscuity good. I'll give Ms. McDonough this: She calls it like she sees it.
She goes on to make the same tired "war on women" claim we've heard so much of lately, warning the would-be chaste that biblical sexual morality is really "only about reproduction and male entitlement."
She then mocks columnist Susan Patton as "a joke" for "arguing in mainstream publications that women who have sex outside of marriage are setting themselves up for disaster and heartbreak." (Yeah, and?) This is in response to Patton's observation in a recent Wall Street Journal column that, "The grandmotherly message of yesterday is still true today: Men won't buy the cow if the milk is free." To which, with indignation, McDonough sneers: "This is purity culture passed off as 'common-sense' wisdom, which was published in a 'serious' and secular paper. In 2014." (So now "secular" is synonymous with slutty?)
McDonough's advice? Girls, give away that milk now, ya hear! (To which the frisky-frat-boy "bro-choice" choir sings: "Amen!" Hey, "pro-choice" gals, you do know that most "pro-choice" guys only support your so-called "abortion rights" so that you'll put out, right?)
Secular-"progressives" like McDonough have been working to deconstruct traditional sexual morality for generations. And today – more than at any point in history – they're having success in spades. Despite her wincey whines to the contrary, Ms. McDonough knows this to be true.
And so do you.
The goal is to impose – under penalty of law – the left's own moral relativist, sexual anarchist worldview. Hence, we see a flood of unelected liberal judges, for instance, arbitrarily ramming counterfeit "gay marriage" down the throats of millions of Americans, complete with the threat that Christians either join the delusion – and pretend that sin-centered "same-sex marriage" is real and right – or suffer the consequences.
Another example is Obamacare's despotic HHS abortion mandate that unconstitutionally requires Christian organizations to cast aside millennia-old church doctrine and get with the postmodern, pro-abort program.
The list goes on.
All of which makes McDonough's central declaration her most ludicrous: "[O]ne point remains clear," she proclaims. "Conservatives want to enshrine religiously defined norms about sexuality into law."
No, Ms. McDonough. The only people "enshrining sexuality" into law are "progressive" social engineers like Barack Obama, Justice Anthony Kennedy and the rest of you godless lefties – hell-bent on taking the screws to America.
Now that is "rape culture."
Their we go Grace!
Use the Alisnky tactics against them. :)
Adam’s apple is way to big for a “her.”
Maybe a dose of the clap would straighten out the author.
This is why I wish STDs would work faster.
” Sandra Fluke’s boyfriend (huge assumption on my part) is secretly dreading it; “
She actually DOES, (or did, back when that tempest broke out;) , a guy from a very rich New England socialist family. You never heard about that, did you, hmm? Of course not....Eight months later, the Kenyan was re-elected. Follow the money....
Give it time; in time women might be required to prove a highly active sexual past to be able to get a job once the really crazy feminazis get control of our culture.
yup
Mandated to “volunteer” for community service” at the local “Kennel”??
Really sad, isn’t it? Because they have no values, they don’t want anyone else to have values/virtue either.
Misery loves company.
Thing is, that sometimes I think (please don’t flame me) that women who are assaulted feel like they can never be good women again. Sometimes conservatives hype virginity to the point where there might be an underlying message that somehow if you are raped, you are ‘ruined’ and now a kind of tainted goods. So they aren’t virgins, ‘good girls,’ but are in fact trash. So they give up on themselves and fall into sexual promiscuity.
I remember a minister went to Elizabeth Smart and told her while she was getting treatment that she was still ‘pure in the eyes of the Lord’ and I think that is how she managed to put the pain behind her and avoid stigmatizing herself (or being stigmatized by other people however unwittingly).
The one thing I do know is that I am sick and tired of damaged women doing harm to other women by trying to drag them into their life where they are working their issues they have in a way that just sexualizes them even more. They want other women to join their sick little world. They develop a sick fascination with the sexuality and seem to WANT to see rape/assault/molestation everywhere they can find it.
Likely, or frathouse.
It’s a horrific thought. All these damaged women working their issues out on the rest of society and men who had nothing to do with their problems in life.
Similar to losers who throw their lives away and go figure, end up ruining the lives of others who didn’t waste their time.
Misery also likes to destroy.
In her world women who are not initiated into sex on a bathroom floor by a teenage boy who could give a crap if she enjoyed anything are missing out.
These same woman short-sightedly miss out on being passed around like a box of candy in collage (by boys with the same attitude as first boy) and avoid the pleasure of monthly (weekly?) checkups at the "free clinic" for things that she probably can't spell.
No, these "purity obsessed" women end up having sex for the first time in a nice room with a man who loves them very much. And they don't have to worry about unpleasant diseases and if they get pregnant their lover will rejoice in that they will be adding a child to their family.
When you think about it for a moment it is no wonder she is unhappy with her choices.
Sorry, but Gomorrah is in our rear-view mirror.
True.
If I could, I would have society really reach out to people who go through stuff like this instead of expecting them to ‘get over it’ and then carry on as if nothing happened.
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