Hey gals want to avoid being raped? Put away that Lady Smith 38. No need for pepper spray. Self-defense classes? Not necessary. The solution is simple. The best defense against rape is to just cast away your deeply troubling" Christianity and become a secularist slut.
So goes the advice of one Katie McDonough Salon.com assistant editor fertile fount of millennial wisdom and well and whatever else.
In an article published at Salon Feb. 20 titled The rights warped purity culture: 4 ways evangelical views of sex took over America" Ms. McDonough provides an unvarnished glimpse into the profligate mind of the postmodern progressive." (Yes you read that right. Purity is warped and biblical sexual morality has taken over America.)
In what amounts to little more than an anti-Christian hit piece on Patrick Henry College or Gods Harvard" as the evidently prone-position-prone journo pejoratively pokes Ms. McDonough says that its time for American women to reject all those biblically imposed gender complementarian" norms and do away with our toxic purity culture" once and for all. (Because just look around. That dang ol toxic purity is everywhere. What America really needs is more debauchery.)
It gets better.
Christianity causes rape McDonough asserts warning us that we suffer a convergence of rape culture (whatever that is) and evangelical culture."
Get that? In this womans progressive" mind when the lady says Im saving myself for marriage" the bad guy hears Come and get it!" Still Ms. McDonough does have this much right: It cant be rape if youre giving it away like peanuts on the plane.
She goes on: While it may be tempting to draw a red line around Christian fundamentalist views on gender and sexuality to distinguish them from supposedly evolved secular culture there is considerable uncomfortable overlap between the two." (The cognitive dissonance: It hurts!)
So if Im understanding her right and admittedly Ms. McDonoughs screed is borderline coherent what shes essentially claiming is that when it comes to sex both secular America and Christian America are really just one big ball of puritanical prudery.
In fairness I suppose she could actually believe this. Its all relative with the relativist. For the anything goes"-type Miley Cyrus may well be indistinguishable from the Virgin Mary. When youre colorblind everything looks kinda gray.
She continues: Evangelical Christianity makes visible through purity pledges and doctrine assigning women the role of mans helpmate the norms and expectations about female virginity and subservience that so often remain hidden in the secular world." (Ooh. Loves me some man-hate.)
So get it? Purity and virginity bad. Impurity and promiscuity good. Ill give Ms. McDonough this: She calls it like she sees it.
She goes on to make the same tired war on women" claim weve heard so much of lately warning the would-be chaste that biblical sexual morality is really only about reproduction and male entitlement."
She then mocks columnist Susan Patton as a joke" for arguing in mainstream publications that women who have sex outside of marriage are setting themselves up for disaster and heartbreak." (Yeah and?) This is in response to Pattons observation in a recent Wall Street Journal column that The grandmotherly message of yesterday is still true today: Men wont buy the cow if the milk is free." To which with indignation McDonough sneers: This is purity culture passed off as common-sense wisdom which was published in a serious and secular paper. In 2014." (So now secular" is synonymous with slutty?)
McDonoughs advice? Girls give away that milk now ya hear! (To which the frisky-frat-boy bro-choice" choir sings: Amen!" Hey pro-choice" gals you do know that most pro-choice" guys only support your so-called abortion rights" so that youll put out right?)
Secular-"progressives" like McDonough have been working to deconstruct traditional sexual morality for generations. And today more than at any point in history theyre having success in spades. Despite her wincey whines to the contrary Ms. McDonough knows this to be true.
And so do you.
The goal is to impose under penalty of law the lefts own moral relativist sexual anarchist worldview. Hence we see a flood of unelected liberal judges for instance arbitrarily ramming counterfeit gay marriage" down the throats of millions of Americans complete with the threat that Christians either join the delusion and pretend that sin-centered same-sex marriage" is real and right or suffer the consequences.
Another example is Obamacares despotic HHS abortion mandate that unconstitutionally requires Christian organizations to cast aside millennia-old church doctrine and get with the postmodern pro-abort program.
The list goes on.
All of which makes McDonoughs central declaration her most ludicrous: One point remains clear" she proclaims. Conservatives want to enshrine religiously defined norms about sexuality into law."
No Ms. McDonough. The only people enshrining sexuality" into law are progressive" social engineers like Barack Obama Justice Anthony Kennedy and the rest of you godless lefties hell-bent on taking the screws to America.
Now that is rape culture."
Hey gals want to avoid being raped? Put away that Lady Smith 38. No need for pepper spray. Self-defense classes? Not necessary. The solution is simple. The best defense against rape is to just cast away your deeply troubling" Christianity and become a secularist slut.
So goes the advice of one Katie McDonough Salon.com assistant editor fertile fount of millennial wisdom and well and whatever else.
In an article published at Salon Feb. 20 titled The rights warped purity culture: 4 ways evangelical views of sex took over America" Ms. McDonough provides an unvarnished glimpse into the profligate mind of the postmodern progressive." (Yes you read that right. Purity is warped and biblical sexual morality has taken over America.)
In what amounts to little more than an anti-Christian hit piece on Patrick Henry College or Gods Harvard" as the evidently prone-position-prone journo pejoratively pokes Ms. McDonough says that its time for American women to reject all those biblically imposed gender complementarian" norms and do away with our toxic purity culture" once and for all. (Because just look around. That dang ol toxic purity is everywhere. What America really needs is more debauchery.)
It gets better.
Christianity causes rape McDonough asserts warning us that we suffer a convergence of rape culture (whatever that is) and evangelical culture."
Get that? In this womans progressive" mind when the lady says Im saving myself for marriage" the bad guy hears Come and get it!" Still Ms. McDonough does have this much right: It cant be rape if youre giving it away like peanuts on the plane.
She goes on: While it may be tempting to draw a red line around Christian fundamentalist views on gender and sexuality to distinguish them from supposedly evolved secular culture there is considerable uncomfortable overlap between the two." (The cognitive dissonance: It hurts!)
So if Im understanding her right and admittedly Ms. McDonoughs screed is borderline coherent what shes essentially claiming is that when it comes to sex both secular America and Christian America are really just one big ball of puritanical prudery.
In fairness I suppose she could actually believe this. Its all relative with the relativist. For the anything goes"-type Miley Cyrus may well be indistinguishable from the Virgin Mary. When youre colorblind everything looks kinda gray.
She continues: Evangelical Christianity makes visible through purity pledges and doctrine assigning women the role of mans helpmate the norms and expectations about female virginity and subservience that so often remain hidden in the secular world." (Ooh. Loves me some man-hate.)
So get it? Purity and virginity bad. Impurity and promiscuity good. Ill give Ms. McDonough this: She calls it like she sees it.
She goes on to make the same tired war on women" claim weve heard so much of lately warning the would-be chaste that biblical sexual morality is really only about reproduction and male entitlement."
She then mocks columnist Susan Patton as a joke" for arguing in mainstream publications that women who have sex outside of marriage are setting themselves up for disaster and heartbreak." (Yeah and?) This is in response to Pattons observation in a recent Wall Street Journal column that The grandmotherly message of yesterday is still true today: Men wont buy the cow if the milk is free." To which with indignation McDonough sneers: This is purity culture passed off as common-sense wisdom which was published in a serious and secular paper. In 2014." (So now secular" is synonymous with slutty?)
McDonoughs advice? Girls give away that milk now ya hear! (To which the frisky-frat-boy bro-choice" choir sings: Amen!" Hey pro-choice" gals you do know that most pro-choice" guys only support your so-called abortion rights" so that youll put out right?)
Secular-"progressives" like McDonough have been working to deconstruct traditional sexual morality for generations. And today more than at any point in history theyre having success in spades. Despite her wincey whines to the contrary Ms. McDonough knows this to be true.
And so do you.
The goal is to impose under penalty of law the lefts own moral relativist sexual anarchist worldview. Hence we see a flood of unelected liberal judges for instance arbitrarily ramming counterfeit gay marriage" down the throats of millions of Americans complete with the threat that Christians either join the delusion and pretend that sin-centered same-sex marriage" is real and right or suffer the consequences.
Another example is Obamacares despotic HHS abortion mandate that unconstitutionally requires Christian organizations to cast aside millennia-old church doctrine and get with the postmodern pro-abort program.
The list goes on.
All of which makes McDonoughs central declaration her most ludicrous: One point remains clear" she proclaims. Conservatives want to enshrine religiously defined norms about sexuality into law."
No Ms. McDonough. The only people enshrining sexuality" into law are progressive" social engineers like Barack Obama Justice Anthony Kennedy and the rest of you godless lefties hell-bent on taking the screws to America.
Now that is rape culture."