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."
Surprisingly to most people, the NT makes no distinctions between male and female when it comes to sexual behavior.
Evangelists were the first to be concerned with sexual purity? Nobody before them ever gave it a thought?
You said “pure”! Bad! Naughty, naughty, naughty!
Very true, and thanks for pointing that out.
Thign is, I think this is what the backlash against feminism is all about.
This is no longer about a career and making an independent living. This has become a war on women in a sick diabolical way.
Instead of working their issues out in the office of a therapist, they are just plain taking it out on as many innocents as they possibly can. They want women who have good lives, bright futures to throw it all away.
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven” has never been more applicable than to these women.
My own mother was one of these women. She reveled in being on welfare and ‘fighting’ for the mentally ill and spent all her time making sure I ‘knew too much’ (we can leave it at that) and she was fixated on sexual abuse.
Needless to say, this is why I’m career oriented and mainstreamed well. I think being career oriented saved me from repeating her life’s mistakes.
“can’t seem to find a way to put it behind them, try to drag other women into their craziness in order to validate themselves”
Exactly; they do it to validate their rutting around. Look at how porno pop ‘singers’ used feminism to validate their whorish antics on stage. Look at how feminists are trying to legitimize Miley and Christina Aguilera. Miley is the latest one trying to use her porn image as a feminist statement.
Apparently the dipweeds at the NT don’t realize that by being abstinent you avoid a horrendous amount of troubles and baggage.
If Travis Alexander had been genuinely abstinent, I don’t think Jodi Arias would have been a huge part of his life and he would be still alive.
Don’t we all? It’s by God’s grace we have not.
>> Christianity causes rape, McDonough asserts
And laws cause murder; otherwise, it would just be killin’... ya’ know... like abortion.
Wait, is she saying that women when raped should just go with it and be a slut and enjoy it? I’m so confused by this sick freak I don’t understand.
“These people do not deserve to be shut-up by us acting on behalf of the government. Instead they should be openly mocked and we as good sensible citizens need to stop feeling so damned guilty about mocking their inane and vacuous ideas.”
Amen.
“Maybe a dose of the clap would straighten out the author.”
That may be the underlying explanation: untreated syphillis that has gone to the brain.
Sounds like Katie McDonough is a nightmare of a woman. I could see initially gullible young men tripping over themselves to lose her after a few hours together. I think she’s attempting to resolve her past mistakes and miseries by spreading them as wide as possible so she has sympathetic company.
It’s this stupid kind of attitude brought about AIDs.
So, let me get this straight: In previous wars (even the pre-Christian ones!), the first thing conquering soldiers would do was go into the villages, where they would rape and pillage - even (gasp!) in those pure Native American tribes!
Why oh why would they do that? To perpetuate the winning DNA, of course. Perhaps if Ms. McDonough had been a member of the losing side in one of these villages, she could have rallied her fellow womyn to just give it away like peanuts - that way it wouldn't have been rape?
Laz might appreciate that.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. (Psalms 2:1-4)
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. (Psalms 2:10-12)
#24 “Feminism was created so as to give unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”
These dangerous goofs toss around words like they have no meaning. What is a “rape culture”?
The best definition for rape is that it is violence in which sex is the weapon. So does she really think that Christians endorse a culture of violence in which sex is the weapon?
I don’t know Christians who do that or believe that. Which religions do?
That is an Undeniable Truth of Life.
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