Posted on 06/06/2011 5:45:57 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
This column makes a living calling out Mika Brzezinski for her liberalism. So let's give the Morning Joe co-host credit when she dares deviate from the lefty line.
On today's Morning Joe, Mika persistently questioned Jessica Valenti, a feminist proponent of [their term] "Slut Walks," as to whether she'd want her daughter to dress like one. Valenti, happy to push others out into the streets in skimpy clothes, twice dodged Mika's question, the second time with a particularly lame line.
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These people want to be able dress in a sexually promiscuous manner and pretend no one is supposed to notice.
LOL, dressing like a slut in a crowd of 300 people with TV cameras film the event is not exactly the situation the cop’s excellent advice was aimed at.
Except the cops advice wasn’t excellent, it was stupid victim blaming BS that completely ignores rape stats that show no matter what the dress it happens pretty evenly. That’s their point, the cop is a moron and his advice is crap.
Everything the organized Left does has an ulterior motive!
The advice was self evidently correct. He probably erred in saying something that is totally obvious to any person in this society.
You missed my point and my sarcasm.
Actually the advice is self evidently WRONG. If the advice was correct muslim countries would be the safest ones for women in the world, which we all know they aren’t. Where the cop erred was in being a moron.
Well here’s some of the text from the signs, straight from google:
how I dress is not an invitation
believe it or not my short skirt has nothing to do with you
haters gonna hate
I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt is it my fault too
I’m not asking for it until I do
my ass is not an excuse for assault
the skirt is no excuse for rape
Yeah sorry that’s not leftist, that’s just true. If you think it’s a conservative value to disagree with those signs I think you need to reconsider.
Nobody argues it is an excuse. It is simply a sad fact of life that dressing provocatively may provoke some small fraction of the population into a violent act.
No, YOU are arguing that it’s an excuse. And no it is NOT a fact of life that provocative dress makes anybody rapes. Again look at the muslim countries, places where women are most likely to be raped and they all wear giant shapeless bags. The behavior scientist figured out 40 years ago that rape is about control not sex and that what “sets off” rapists isn’t provocative dress or behavior but being in a situation where they think they can get away with it. Time for you to catch up, you’re spouting bad 50s dogma that has been shown to be wrong for a very very long time, bad dogma that excuses bad behavior and blames the victim.
From the March:
By the way, The cop in question never said that people who dress slutty are asking for it."
Those weren’t cherry picking at all, what I listed was the visible signs on the first page of image results for a search on “slut walk”. I’m still not seeing a leftist agenda in the signs you’re posting, some of them are dumb, but not all dumb stuff is liberal, people can be dumb in apolitical ways.
I have explicitly said the opposite several times.
And no it is NOT a fact of life that provocative dress makes anybody rapes.
I NEVER said it anything or anyone MAKES someone rape.
How many conservatives do you think took part in the demonstrations?
You say you aren’t arguing it’s an excuse, then you say provocative dress provokes some men to violence, which is an excuse, so in fact you ARE arguing it’s an excuse.
You said it provokes, as in incite, as in make. Doesn’t matter which word you chose they are all WRONG, provocative dress does not make/ incite/ provoke rape, EVER, it’s quite simply a lie to say it does. A lie that excuses the act.
Conservatives tend to have jobs, we don’t participate in many weekday demonstrations. But a broken clock is right twice a day, sometimes leftists get it right. Like when they point out that a dumbass that says slutty clothes cause rape is a dumbass excusing an inexcusable act. Doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum you’re on, that cop said a dumb thing, a very offensive dumb thing.
And I think you are simply wrong. Let’s leave it at that.
And reality has shown that you are simply wrong. doesn’t matter what you think, or even what I think.
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