Forget the Starbucks cup, feminists are demanding the national consensus freak out about Bloomingdale’s Christmas ad that they’re claiming is “pro-rape.”
The feminists at Elephant Journal put it subtly when they asked, “Are you f*cking kidding me? ”
Bloomingdale’s received enough letters from women with blue hair that they issued an apology for the ad featuring a man looking longingly at a woman who’s laughing in the other direction.
“In reflection of recent feedback, the copy we used in our recent catalog was inappropriate and in poor taste. Bloomingdale’s sincerely apologizes for this error in judgment,” said a Bloomingdale’s spokesperson said in a statement.
That wasn’t enough for the permanent victims class.
“You don’t have to be a feminist or an activist or a scholar to know what rape culture is in a time like this. It’s simple—rape culture is the culture where this ad gets made,” wrote Christine White. “Rape culture is where Bloomingdale’s gets away without a real apology and where those writing headlines don’t know how to be clear.”
“This is rape culture—using spiking a drink, while the woman isn’t looking, as something that helps promote a business,” she continued. “Rape culture is the culture I live in, and that’s terrifying, because I’m female and a sister, daughter, mother and aunt in world where 1 in 5 females will experience sexual assault, just while at college. It’s a world where 1 in 4 of us females will be sexually assaulted during our lives. This world. This culture. That’s it—that’s how simple a concept rape culture is.”
Even though none of those statistics are true, 1-in-5 women will not experience a sexual assault on campus according to The Justice Department. In fact, 15-year-old men are more likely to experience sexual assault than 40-year-old women according to a study by Penn State professor Richard B. Felson and East Carolina University Professor Patrick R. Cundiff.
Facts be damned, the feminist myth about rape culture must continue…
“It’s astounding and there are a ton of us who don’t think it’s even a tiny bit funny, seductive, smart or charming—and who are royally pissed off,” she continued. “We know the real picture behind that picture.”
By the statistics White uses, it’s obvious that she doesn’t.
So besides an apology or Bloomingdale’s yanking the ad, what do feminists like White want? A world that no one even thinks about putting something that they can interpret as offensive to their feelings or made up statistics.
“I need to believe one day an ad like this one won’t even be thought of as a good idea—by anyone. Not a single soul,” White concluded.
