The Huffington Post is promoting a man who tells women what they should think.
Telling women to consider dressing modestly and wait until marriage for sex translates into telling them to “slowly” back “themselves back into the kitchen, preferably after first getting knocked up by their husbands.” At least that’s what editorial director Noah Michelson wrote Thursday.
Michelson argued that columnist Mona Charen, who promoted her new book “Sex Matters: How Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense” on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Tuesday, needs to change her sexist views. A woman should not even ask the question “Did women’s full equality require a sexual revolution that would dismantle traditions of modesty, courtship and fidelity?” Even thinking about this is sexist, according to a Michelson, a man.
Apparently mansplaining is totally OK if the woman is for traditional values.
He argued that Charen saying that “all reasonable people, myself included, believe women are the full legal, moral, ethical, equals of men” is basically the same as her “banging pots and pans while openly pledging her allegiance to patriarchy” while trying to “convince women that she’s on their side.”
Then Michelson alluded to the all too familiar The Handmaid’s Tale, a show that everyone on the left uses to show the future under President Trump (even though the show is based on a book written in the 1980s.) If you believe in traditional values then you are to blame for the imminent “harrowing dystopian tale about a not-so-distant future where evangelicals rule our once-fair country,” he suggested.
To avoid this future, Americans“need to attune ourselves to even the subtlest of dog whistles and slickest of campaigns advocating for the disciplining and domination of women” which includes women who believe in traditional values. Because if citizens don’t it, “allows it [subjugation of women] to take root, grow and eventually flourish.”
Women not being safe or equal in this country has nothing to do with their refusal to “be modest or to contort themselves into an outdated idea of what a marriage or family should look like.” No, “we have a long way to go in terms of full liberation and equality for women,” he said, citing an almost non-existent pay gap and limited access to abortion. One day Americans might see illegal abortions in America if “good people sit by idly and allow their silence to co-sign perilous ideas that soon become perilous laws and have perilous consequences.”
But don’t worry, Michelson said, “it’s up to us to make sure they don’t lead us sleepwalking towards the Republic of Gilead,” the world of the Handmaid’s Tale.
When will feminists go after this man for talking about something he’s “not allowed to?” Never. He’s on their side.
