Sydney Watson's Lawsuit Against Blaze Media Exposes Misogyny on the Right
Conservative, Inc. seems to be coming apart at the seams lately. It’s one big fight after the next. When Steven Crowder called out “Big Con” for writing contracts that appeared to take advantage of creators, everyone took cover or took a side. That noise went on for a while until Project Veritas kicked James O’Keefe out of the organization, alleging abusive behavior. We’re still trying to figure that one out. Running in the background to all of that was the story of how Eliza Bleu worked her way into the inner circles of conservative entertainment and influencers with a dubious tale of being trafficked. When questioned, she became today’s most notorious censor, striking YouTube channels and Twitter accounts that post publicly available photos and clips of her racy video vixen past.
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Conservatives have allowed this cultural poison that started on the left to infect our own spaces. We have bought into it and now believe that we hate one another and that each sex is out to destroy the other one. There is no room for debate. The science is settled on the right. Women are the devil. This is no different than the anti-male sentiment on the left that we all agree is evil.
Both sides are deeply wrong. Instead of trying to come to a rational balance on the right where we recognize that some women and some men are dangerous and evil but others aren’t, we’ve allowed the left to turn us into what they say we are. And the women on the right are forced to either agree with the blatant misogyny or at least put up with it to have a say in the conversation and a seat at the table — or face ridicule and humiliation. Already I’m hearing whisperings of “who would ever want to hire a woman as a co-host after this?” in response to Watson’s lawsuit.
There’s already a shocking lack of women in conservative entertainment spaces. Next to Laura Ingraham and Candace Owens, which other prominent females can you name whose faces you see regularly all over conservative media? Even Ann Coulter is mostly absent these days. Who has the biggest presence? Tim Pool, Steven Crowder, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, etc., and no slight on any of them. I enjoy most of them. The point is, women on the right are damn near invisible even though there are many of us out here doing a whole lot of support work for this movement.
We’re writing about these men’s documentaries and pushing their shows and helping spread their messages. And what do we get in return? Ignored if we’re lucky or shamed and humiliated if we aren’t. Just writing this opens me up to ridicule and shunning, but I’m 20 years in and I have lost my ability to care. What’s happening here is wrong. For the sake of my daughters, I will not shut up about it and I will not support any movement that fails to say women should be treated with respect in the workplace, and that doesn’t include subjecting them to drunken, hostile hosts and guests.
I wonder if Steven Crowder knew about this before he came out to tell us about the bad contracts in conservative media that were hurting young up-and-comers. It sounds like a whole lot of people knew what Schaffer was like and said nothing for a very long time. He was eventually let go from Blaze Media for another incident with another woman who says he groped her while he was drunk.
A shake-up is happening, and I’m glad because this sickness will destroy all of us. If the right wants to lose some of its strongest allies, i.e. women who agree with them politically, keep it up! I’d rather quit and spend the rest of my life gardening than defend this kind of disgusting chauvinism. Good luck being a movement supported only by angry men. The conservative media needs women. Do they know that? It doesn’t seem like it. Though they sure want us when it’s time to vote, don’t they?
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