This all happened last week, but I'm just catching up to it now:
Apparently Playboy put
an article by Guy Cimbalo on its website titled "So Right It's Wrong: Ten Conservative Women I’d Like to Hate-F*ck," which was removed 24 hours later. I wasn't able to read it, but
Jezebel caught the list and addressed the utter horrific nature of the piece.
Feministe also responded based on the Jezebel piece. The list included Michelle Malkin, Megyn Kelly, Mary Katherine Ham, Amanda Carpenter, Elisabeth Hasselback, Dana Perino, Laura Ingraham, Pamela Geller, Michele Bachman, and Peggy Noonan.
While I've made it clear I'm
no fan of
Michele Bachman, it's always been that I've disagreed with her politics.
If we defend liberal women from sexist attacks, we sure as hell better defend conservative women from sexist attacks. Like Sarah Palin, like Ann Coulter, we can't let any woman be attacked.
Elizabeth Hassleback responded on The View:
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My point is Cimbaolo is calling it hate f*cking while these women probably wouldn't want to have sex with him at all (especially after the article came out). Since their consent is, at best a tenuous yes, at worst a flat out no, I'm going to guess that they're not consenting to this supposed consensual act. And that's rape.
True, this is all my thoughts on the subject, but the article and claim of hate f*cking was all Cimbalo's thoughts on the subject, so I call it a draw there.
but I think the point is that saying you want to have sex with person x isn't the same as actually having sex with person x. Otherwise many movie stars would be raped all the time. So yes, actually having sex with them would be rape, you're right. I think the odds of any of those women consenting are tiny. but that's not what the article did.
I dislike it and feel disrespected when guys say how "they'd totally do me". It's inappropriate, offensive, and meant to be dismissive of me as a person-and all of those are totally valid critiques of the playboy article-but I'd never, particularly near someone who has experienced sexual assault, pretend that it was the same as rape. It doesn't even begin to compare to their experiences.
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