'Feminasty' Columnist in WaPo: Democrats Should Stay Even If They Sexually Assaulted Women
Instead, they all called for a Senate ethics investigation against Franken, a do-nothing measure meant to save his career (hell, even Franken called for an investigation against himself). And now, some feminists are rushing to Franken’s defense, the exact same way they rushed to Bill Clinton’s defense in 1998. Back then, uber-feminist Nina Burleigh said that she’d be happy to give Clinton oral sex to keep abortion legal. Now, feminists say they’d be willing to watch Franken grab the breasts of unsuspecting unconscious women so long as he does the same.
Exhibit A: self-proclaimed radical feminist Kate Harding, co-editor of “Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America,” and co-host of the podcast Feminasty, which sounds like a pleasant listen. She has an op-ed in today’s Washington Post in which she declares, “I’m a feminist. I study rape culture. And I don’t want Al Franken to resign.”
Why not, pray tell? Well, because she’s a partisan hack:
Instead, they all called for a Senate ethics investigation against Franken, a do-nothing measure meant to save his career (hell, even Franken called for an investigation against himself). And now, some feminists are rushing to Franken’s defense, the exact same way they rushed to Bill Clinton’s defense in 1998. Back then, uber-feminist Nina Burleigh said that she’d be happy to give Clinton oral sex to keep abortion legal. Now, feminists say they’d be willing to watch Franken grab the breasts of unsuspecting unconscious women so long as he does the same.
Exhibit A: self-proclaimed radical feminist Kate Harding, co-editor of “Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America,” and co-host of the podcast Feminasty, which sounds like a pleasant listen. She has an op-ed in today’s Washington Post in which she declares, “I’m a feminist. I study rape culture. And I don’t want Al Franken to resign.”
Why not, pray tell? Well, because she’s a partisan hack:
Cynics on both the right and left will presume I am passing by this particular steam tray on 2017’s smorgasbord of feminist outrage because Franken is a Democrat, and so am I. (I was even his proud constituent for two years.) In the most superficial sense, this is true. But it’s meaningless to say it’s because I am a Democrat without asking why I am a Democrat. If you understand what it means to be a Democrat today — that is, why it makes sense to vote blue over red in this highly polarized political environment — you can understand why it might not make the most sense to demand Franken’s resignation, effective immediately.
