Imagine There's No Rape Culture — It's Easy If You Try!

I've spent most of the day fascinated by the residuals from the progressive feminists' #MooreandMe hysteria on Twitter — you know, with stuff like, "Imagine there's no rape culture - it's easy if you try!" I had a couple of exchanges, especially with Elinor Greenberg, who avoided substance and instead attacked my "male privilege. She repeatedly linked to a hilarious blog called "Finally, Feminism 101." It's all been pretty amazing. The news cycle's been pretty mild, however, and I think Sady Doyle's 15 minutes are about up. She does go off on Michelle Bernard, in any case, at the MSNBC clip below, as a "KNOWN RAPE VICTIM SHAMER." Ms. Sady's comments are unreal particularly since Ms. Bernard hits all the right talking points, even calling for Michael Moore to get his money back. But Bernard's an "evil" conservative, so toeing the #RapeCulture line like a good progressive apparatchik doesn't get her off the hook: "That lady's an anti-feminist asshole. MSNBC? Still just assholes." Folks can listen to the clip, but Ms. Bernard's hardly an "asshole." She's decidedly not progressive, so that's pretty much it. Indeed, John Hayward has a piece up tonight that summarizes much of what I've been blogging about these past few days, "A Bunch of Hooey From Michael Moore: Politics Determine Guilt for the Totalitarian":

The latest demonstration of sexual assault politics comes from cinema propagandist Michael Moore, who is a big fan of accused rapist and WikiLeaks saboteur Julian Assange. In an interview with Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, after posting bail for his hacker hero, Moore dismissed the charges against Assange as “a bunch of hooey” about “a broken condom” ....

Moore’s callous dismissal of the Assange accusers recalls the contortions of the Hollywood Left to excuse Roman Polanski, who actually admitted his guilt, obliging his defenders to re-define either the nature or severity of his actions. This led Whoopi Goldberg to give us the famous “rape-rape” concept, as distinguished from the kinda-sorta no-harm-no-foul plain vanilla “rape.” Rape-rape is apparently a crime liberal icons cannot be guilty of.

Feminist blogger Sady Doyle went nuclear after Moore’s appearance on the Olbermann show, and created a Twitter hashtag, #MooreandMe, to batter him into submission ....

Congratulations are due to Doyle for twisting this loathsome man’s arm behind his back, but that doesn’t change what he said in the first place, or why he said it. The details of the allegations against Assange are widely spread across the Internet, where Michael Moore spends a great deal of his time. He deliberately discarded those details, and spoke of hooey and condoms, because the truth would interfere with his rapturous adoration of the WikiLeaks messiah. He only recanted because a prominent and energetic liberal forced him to. He never would have listened to such criticism from a class or political enemy, and if Assange had assaulted a couple of Young Republicans, he wouldn’t have listened to Doyle either.

Perhaps she will spare a moment to reflect how many of her “progressive” friends are no different than Michael Moore, who is a living caricature of a fundamental, and very ugly, truth. Totalitarians demand a monopoly on the distribution of guilt, and truth. Anyone who claims you should “never, ever believe the official story” is demanding a level of faith thinking people never invest in any individual, especially a proven liar like Moore. You’ll notice the biggest liars are the ones who demand that level of faith most stridently.

There's more at the link, but I just love that Sady Doyle smackdown.

PREVIOUSLY:

* "#MooreandMe Feminists Claim Scalp of Moe Tkacik."

* "Naomi Wolf vs. Jaclyn Friedman on Democracy Now!"

* "Michael Moore Rehabilitated."

* "Michael Moore Repudiates 'Hooey' Rape Comments During Rachel Maddow Show Trial — BUMPED AND UPDATED!"