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Sandra Fluke’s War On Reality
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 11:10am | posted by Kevin Boyd
Media darling and left-wing feminist activist Sandra Fluke is yet again in the news. She gave an interview to some CNN program called “Starting Point” that nobody watches, just like the rest of the programming on CNN but I digress. Ms. Fluke had some choice words for Republicans.
“I talk to women across the country, they really do feel like this is a shift,” said Sandra Fluke.
Sandra Fluke, who rose to national prominence when she was attacked by Rush Limbaugh following her testimony in favor of increased contraception access, said Wednesday that many women personally feel “they’re under attack” from GOP policies.
“When you look at the facts, quantitatively, there have been a record number of bills in the House to limit reproductive health. … Women feel that. I talk to women across the country, they really do feel like this is a shift, and not in their favor,” Fluke said on CNN’s “Starting Point.”
So once again in the mind of Sandra Fluke and other left-wing feminists, women are nothing more than vaginas and uteruses. The only issues that women care about are abortion and birth control in their minds. Something tells me that not necessarily true. Women, just like men, I’m sure care more about whether or not they will have a job in the failed Obama economy for starters. This whole “war on women” is a distraction from the real issues invented by the Democrat Party and their allies in the media and the feminist movement.
Finally, it’s an insult to say that you must support abortion in order to be pro-woman. That’s just simply not true. There are many pro-life feminists out there. Supporting women’s equality and women’s rights is a lot more than just supporting abortion or dressing up as a giant vagina.
Of course it wouldn’t be a Sandra Fluke interview without her whining about the criticisms about her.
The former Georgetown Law student said it was “fair” to say critics were waging a war on her personally.
“Certainly you’ve been under attack, so it’s certainly fair to say there has been a war on you from some people,” asked CNN host Soledad O’Brien.
“That’s probably fair,” responded Fluke.
Fluke is slated to speak Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Previewing her speech, Fluke said she would look to draw the distinction between President Obama’s record on women’s issues and that of his Republican opponents, presidential nominee Mitt Romney and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.
“Talk about what kind of policies for women Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan have stood for, and what the president has stood for on issues like fair pay, access to reproductive healthcare, violence on women,” Fluke said.
Sandra Fluke is no longer just an average person advocating an issue. She’s now an operative of the Democrat Party and someone in the public eye. She really needs to quit whining about what people say about her. This is politics, people say nasty things about their opponents all the time. Ms. Fluke either needs to learn to let the attacks roll off of her or get out of the public eye.
Besides, I thought feminism was about gender equality. Part of that gender equality is being able to take criticism and yes, even personal attacks.
We need more real feminism that pushes for strong, independent women instead of the government dependence that the Sandra Fluke’s of the world promote.
Your argument notwithstanding, you cannot deny the fact that the GOP, especially at the state level, has put forward an unprecedented number of bills designed to restrict the right of women to control their own bodies. This ranges from the “personhood” amendments that would effectively outlaw not just abortion, but also In-Vitro Fertilization to the idiotic bill in Virginia that would have required women seeking an abortion to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound.
It’s true that these aren’t the only issues that women care about, but they don’t exactly endear them to Republicans who seem more concerned with culture war issues than fixing the economy.
Then, Republicans wonder why there’s a gender gap.
Ms. Fluke,
I saw your speech on tv at the DNC convention. Impressed is a word that doesn’t completely describe the power you projected. In a word I was AWED, really!
Those poor men on the panel you were trying to address are not feeling any shame now…tsk, tsk, tsk.
If anyone showed them how smart and correct you were, you did it.
Thanks,
LEE
Mr. Boyd, with every one of these posts I’m left wondering, why are you writing for United Liberty and not RedState or some other conservative blog? These misogynistic rants are far more in keeping with the sensibilities of Erickson and other conservative blowhards than anyone in the liberty movement.
As far as Fluke is concerned, the Republican assault on women’s reproductive rights is hardly a “distraction.” It’s a major issue and a completely unwarranted, unwelcome intrusion of government into women’s health. If you support government attempts to control what people do with their own bodies, why are you associating yourself with libertarians?
I already explained the economics of free birth control in detail in an earlier post of yours in this series. If you think the government would be better served not paying for $0.03 worth of birth control in favor of any of the $35,000 a year it would cost to incarcerate that unwanted child, the $120,000 free education that child receives, or the massive amounts of state and federal welfare payments the child and its mother would be entitled to, math is not your strong suit.
Note to author:
Feminism is about equality, power imbalances and the freedom of choice. Not just gender equality. And gender equality does NOT involve taking ‘personal attacks’ that one must ‘get used to’. Intelligent and indeed intellectual arguments do not need to become ‘personal attacks’.
Big sigh.
The truth is that there is no “War on Women,” but here is a very real War on Men in this country. Almost all government programs transfer wealth from men to women (this includes Social Security and Medicare, as NOW admitted in their attacks on Paul Ryan). The government spends on women’s health, but not on men’s health. The Obama administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter deprives college students (mostly male) accused of sexual assault of due process rights and basically deems them guilty even if their accuser is lying (as left-wing feminazis will claim, women “never lie about rape” and 20% of women will supposedly be “raped” in their lifetime, if you use an absurdly broad definition of “rape”). Women benefit from “affirmative action” programs that are nothing more than legally-sanctioned discrimination against men. There’s also the farce known as family law. These laws routinely reward women for divorcing their husbands, even for no fault of his own and even if his wife cheated on him (look up the case of the McCourts, who used to own the Los Angeles Dodgers; she cheated on him with his limo driver, took most of his money, effectively left the Dodgers unable to compete financially for 2 years and forced him to sell his team and he was the one that made almost all the money!). Staying single is no protection either for men, because a man who has a 1 night stand with a woman can end up handing over a large portion of his income to her for 18 years (how is this not another form of welfare?). At a cultural level, anti-male bigotry is truly rampant in our society, as anybody who watches TV knows very well.
The leftist feminazis don’t care one bit about equality, which becomes clear when you confront them regarding discrimination and/or bigotry against men. It is equally outrageous that there are some libertarians who will actually say that we are “more free” today because of unilateral divorce (apparently, they are ignorant of what goes on in family court; I believe it was David Boaz from Cato that said this a year or 2 ago). There are some self-described “feminists” who have done great work exposing the anti-male agenda of the leftist feminazis, but I don’t consider them to actually be “feminists” anymore than libertarians are “liberals” because the most prominent people who use that label stand for basically the opposite of what the “individualist feminists” stand for (just as the “liberals” believe in the opposite of what “classical liberals” believe). Why not adopt a new name for that movement, free of any association with the Sandra Flukes of the world.
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