Some thoughts from Ace:
I think it’s pretty stupid to demagogue people over statements like this, honestly. I know where Sanders go this from: He got it from Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden, supposedly a book containing all of women’s private fantasies (she says she surveyed women), and rape was indeed a major part of the female sexual imagination, she was surprised to find. (Psychologically, it has been explained to me that women feel guilty about sex, but still enjoy sex; the fantasy of being under someone else’s sexual control allows the woman, in fantasy, to enjoy sex, because she’s not making any of the decisions that she would otherwise feel guilty about.)
I don’t know if I buy any of that; I’m just remarking that this isn’t the first time I’ve heard this.
I do know that if I wrote that paragraph not in response to Bernie Sanders, there’s a pretty good chance that the left would demagogue me and Speechcraft Trial me as a Thought Rapist.
And that’s why we must do the same to Bernie Sanders, and make him defend these So Problematic You Guys words.
The left has drawn us all into its insecure, neurotic, grasping, wanting, stupid, paranoid darkness. They have effectively criminalized it to say anything other than “Women are just terrific” and “everything is awesome!”
They are broken, warped people inflicting their psychic tumult on the rest of society.
Yes, tit for tat is exactly the right strategy. Except maybe we need to (in someone’s words) punch back twice as hard. But they won’t stop this Alinskyite BS until it causes them sufficient pain.
The Other Side will not only defend Senator Sanders but will cite his paper to prove that, since all men are rapists, there is no such thing as a false rape accusation.
Bernie’s high water mark as a consequential figure in American politics was as the 60th vote for Obamacare and even that is a distinction he shares with 59 others. To the extent his fantasies have political relevance they are the economic – not sexual – ones.
Off topic but with regard to punching back twice as hard:
“Former U.S. Marine and anti-Islam supporter organize a “Freedom of Speech” rally and a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest outside the Islamic Community Center in Phoenix, May 29, 2015 ”
And the organizers said that people should exercise their second amendment rights.
There were an equal number of counter-protesters, but there was (as far as I know) no violence. The police kept them apart. Many of the counter-protestors were concerned local citizens.
Brave guys to organize a rally like that right in front of the mosque that the one of the two terrorists (who launched the attack on the Muhammed Cartoon gathering and were killed) used.
Bullies will most often back down when someone stands up to them.