Wingnut Misogyny: they just can’t help themselves
3rd June 2009
by gordo
In a remarkably hateful and sexist article that appeared in Playboy Guy Cimbalo listed ten conservative women that he’d like to “hate fuck”. Folks on the left were predictably outraged, and many conservatives took time off from their own rape fantasies to condemn the indefensible.
But this is the American conservative movement we’re talking about, so it was inevitable that someone would respond by saying, “there aren’t any liberal women I’d like to hate fuck, because those bitches are just too damn ugly! Ha ha!”
We can only pity such people. They’re wingnuts, so they just can’t help it when stupidly vile things spill out of them.
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Terminally clueless Susannah Breslin thought that the article was “provocative”, and took feminists to task for demanding a retraction:
Apparently, free speech is so over when the masses rule the media: “It’s only OK if I think it’s funny. It’s only OK if it fits my politics. It’s only OK if I say it is.” I wish Playboy hadn’t pulled it. Censoring the piece doesn’t make it any less real, any less politically incorrect, any less true. Attempting to police human nature is the real joke here.
Pulling the piece doesn’t make it “less real” or “less true”? What is “real” and “true” about saying that fucking Michelle Malkin is “worse than fucking Eva Braun”? As Megan Carpentier points out, this is nothing more than a list of sexist insults.
If the government stepped in and forced Playboy to withdraw the article, then Breslin would have a point. But there’s nothing wrong with a magazine publisher coming to his senses and pulling an offensive, sophomoric article that never should have been greenlighted in the first place.
(via Pandagon)