Background: From time to time I ponder why there is such a divide between the feminist movement and the men’s and fathers’ movement. I wish this divide didn’t exist, or at least that it were smaller. Yet sometimes I read things which make me believe that the divide will never be breached. One example is Why We Don’t See Eye to Eye (Part I), a recent one is Why We Don’t See Eye to Eye (Part II)–Feminist Bloggers on the Duke Case.
In the latter, I discussed the views of feminist blogger “Violet Socks” of the mid-level feminist blog www.reclusiveleftist.com concerning the Duke case. “Socks” believes that the Duke case means “The message is clear: You can terrorize some woman all you want, call her a nigger and threaten to shove a broomstick up her and knock her around and probably rape her, and…win…Any questions about why every single athletic team in this country now has carte blanche to rape and torture any woman they get their nasty goddamn hands on?”
Apparently some of my readers went over to www.reclusiveleftist.com to debate the Duke issue. Socks responds by labeling the referring site–mine, apparently–a “male supremacist site,” and writes a blog post called “Attention men’s ‘rights’ activists, white ‘rights’ activists, neo-Nazis, skinheads, Ku Klux Klan members, etc.” Socks writes:
“Fuck off. Go away. Do not post here. If you do, your comment will be deleted.
“The intertube is a big place and there are plenty of websites where you can indulge your fetid delusions about how the nigras/Jews/bitches have ruined the world and robbed you of your destiny. Not here.
“FUCK OFF.”
I’ve seen numerous feminist bloggers react to criticism from men’s activists in more or less this way, including Amanda Marcotte, Trish Wilson, and others. I can’t help but think that if these ladies were really so sure of their feminist views and the arguments which support them, they wouldn’t have such a meltdown when challenged.
“Violet Socks’” public email address is violetsocks@reclusiveleftist.com.
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