There used to be a time when rape was universally condemned.......... And then Trump won in 2016.
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/03/why-the-left-wont-condemn-the-october-7-rapes
Astoundingly, not even those celebratory videos have been enough to draw condemnation from the left. The same young, progressive college women who need trigger warnings for classics now find themselves unable to denounce one of the greatest instances of mass rape in recent history. The same liberals and progressives who filled their Facebook and Instagram pages with #MeToo now stand in solidarity with the rapists of Hamas.
What can possibly account for the willingness to justify the October 7 rapes and the continued torture of hostages? Why, now, is rape seen as a tool of lawful “resistance”?
The first answer is that anti-Semitism always trumps everything else. Our front yard signs may boast that “Hate Has No Home Here,” but the one hate that always has a home is hatred of Jews. God’s chosen people have always been, and seemingly always will be, reviled by those not chosen.
But there is an additional explanation for why the left has found it so hard to condemn these attacks. Whether or not they realize it, the feminist logic of the past seventy years has been laid bare and exposed.
When women insist that they are no different from men, and that casual sex with no expectation of intimacy or procreation is an absolute good, then sex and womanhood are demystified and devalued. The feminism of hook-ups and abortion rights maintains that sex is meaningless, just another form of pleasurable exercise, no more significant than Zumba class.
Meanwhile, our institutions of higher learning encourage women to be “sex-positive” and to experiment. Annual Sex Weeks are de rigueur on college campuses. Last year, SHEATH (Sexual Health Education & Advocacy throughout Harvard College) sponsored such illuminating classes as “Knot Your Average Workshop: Intro to BDSM and Kink,” “Harness Your Desire: A Strap-On Workshop,” “The More the Merrier: Exploring Non-Monogamy,” and “Come Hammered, Get Nailed: Safe Sex Under the Influence.”
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/03/why-the-left-wont-condemn-the-october-7-rapes
Astoundingly, not even those celebratory videos have been enough to draw condemnation from the left. The same young, progressive college women who need trigger warnings for classics now find themselves unable to denounce one of the greatest instances of mass rape in recent history. The same liberals and progressives who filled their Facebook and Instagram pages with #MeToo now stand in solidarity with the rapists of Hamas.
What can possibly account for the willingness to justify the October 7 rapes and the continued torture of hostages? Why, now, is rape seen as a tool of lawful “resistance”?
The first answer is that anti-Semitism always trumps everything else. Our front yard signs may boast that “Hate Has No Home Here,” but the one hate that always has a home is hatred of Jews. God’s chosen people have always been, and seemingly always will be, reviled by those not chosen.
But there is an additional explanation for why the left has found it so hard to condemn these attacks. Whether or not they realize it, the feminist logic of the past seventy years has been laid bare and exposed.
When women insist that they are no different from men, and that casual sex with no expectation of intimacy or procreation is an absolute good, then sex and womanhood are demystified and devalued. The feminism of hook-ups and abortion rights maintains that sex is meaningless, just another form of pleasurable exercise, no more significant than Zumba class.
Meanwhile, our institutions of higher learning encourage women to be “sex-positive” and to experiment. Annual Sex Weeks are de rigueur on college campuses. Last year, SHEATH (Sexual Health Education & Advocacy throughout Harvard College) sponsored such illuminating classes as “Knot Your Average Workshop: Intro to BDSM and Kink,” “Harness Your Desire: A Strap-On Workshop,” “The More the Merrier: Exploring Non-Monogamy,” and “Come Hammered, Get Nailed: Safe Sex Under the Influence.”
