The Real Misogynists

Odd that theological complementarians are called misogynists when this stuff it going on everyday without comment from the political left, the Christian left, or supposed "women's" groups. 

An article appeared earlier this week at Frontpage detailing the unconscionable sexual degradation of conservative women.  The most recent egregious case was that of commentator S.E. Cupp depicted in Hustler as needing to be "shut up" by having a particular object photoshopped suggestively into her mouth.  It is one article of many that could be cited.  In it former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Former Florida Congresswoman Katherine Harris and current Wisconsin lieutenant governor Rebecca Kleefisch have all been attacked using vivid sexual imagery and conservitive commentators like Laura Ingram, Michelle Malkin and Elizabeth Hasselbeck have been subjected to rape language. (more)

One example, without repeating too much of the unrepeatable, was Playboy Magazine's Guy Cimbalo who apparently wrote (I don't read Playboy, so sorry if I haven't fact checked this) "...there is a way to reach across the aisle without letting principles fall by the wayside. We speak, naturally, of the hate f**k."  Cimbalo went on to describe various ways he'd like to sexually abuse a number of prominent conservative women, apparently as a political act.  

That's Playboy, but it is the tip of the iceberg.  Bill Maher keeps doing his TV show despite his often crass and obscene suggestive commentary to ridicule those he disagrees with.  He did use the "c" word to refer to Palin, and still has faced only a fraction of the backlash Rush Limbaugh faced for his singular use of a derogatory word directed at a female activist.   MSNBC's Joe Schultz called Laura Ingraham a "right wing slut", all of which passes without a comment from the political and religious left.  Social justice indeed.

In the recall election targeting Republican Governor Scott Walker, in which lieutenant governor Rebecca Kleefisch became a target, Walker's challenger, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett accuses Walker of waging a war on women, while a rapper who calls himself by the name "Prophetic" performed at one of his events.  Prophetic's lyrics include the poetic phrase "bitches who ride me" but the left fails to detect a contradiction.

Granted Rush Limbaugh should not have used the "s" word to speak of student activist Sandra Fluke, but at least in his case, there was the context of Fluke essentially proclaiming that not only was she a sexually active single woman but insisting that someone else pay for her contraception as a necessity of life.   None of such context can be appealed to as justification for depicting a conservative political commentator with a phallus in her mouth to "shut her up".  

Justice and fairness and open debate are not the issue here, quite obviously.  Neither is misogyny the issue.  The issue is winning at politics at all costs.   The father of community organizing, and perhaps the most corrosive influence on left wing politics in the last 100 years, Saul Alinsky taught "in war the end justifies almost any means."    His comment was both an observation and an endorsement of a strategy.  Ridicule and intimidation are effective, so use them.  The issue is never the issue, all that matters is obtaining and keeping power.  If it takes the verbal rape of women to silence the opposition, then that is what many are willing to do.

Fortunately, conservative women like Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham,  Sarah Palin, and others are not easily intimidated.  Their courage in not backing away from their convictions allows us to see the sickening hypocrisy of many on the left with a great deal of clarity.