Writer Heather Wilhelm has a great new column in RealClearPolitics today regarding the tendency for the loudest of modern feminists to reduce women to fragile victims incapable of defending themselves.
The key paragraphs:
I’ve written about this before, and if feminism is going to be reclaimed, it needs to return to its roots of empowering women rather than infantilizing them.
Rather than complaining about the phrase “too much information” or the word “bossy,” rather than finding sexism in the most mundane of places or requiring “trigger warnings” because God forbid you read something unpleasant, feminists need to once again tell women that they are stronger than their fainting couch-owning ancestors.
The wave of men being accused of sexual assault in college has brought with it a wave of men who were accused of sexual assault merely getting expelled from college to prey on non-college women. Now, granted, a lot of the hearings that led to their expulsion lacked any semblance of due process, but if we take the feminist approach and claim these men are all rapists – shouldn’t they be in jail?
Perhaps not fighting to get them in jail is easier on the accuser, but what about all the other women who might be attacked by his supposed monster? Don’t feminists care about them?
