Nancy Morgan on the “Feminist Meltdown”

Call me a glutton for punishment but, at times, when I have nothing to do I scour the web with my handy dandy stumble upon browser for “conservative politics” pages. Subsequently, as I read, I tear their fallacies apart. If the article/blog/what have you is disturbing or intellectually inept enough it may find its way to my blog. In the wee hours of this morning I had the pleasure of finding this gem:
http://rightbias.com/News/052107melt.aspx
I find this woman’s utter lack of comprehension of feminist ideologies amusing at its best, frightening at its worst. I found myself laughing, mostly, with the exception of just a few sentences. I know I shouldn’t let it get to me, but the things that come out of conservatives’ mouths sometimes just floors me. One particular sentence which lit a fire under my ass is, of course, “By going along with the fiction that men and women are equal…”
*sigh* I defy you to prove to me that men and women are not equal beings. Yet I can produce evidence of countless ways in which men and women are equal. Ms. Morgan goes on to say that equality has caused lower standards in our firehouses, police departments and military, yet she fails to provide any evidence of this.
Ms. Morgan exhibits all the traits of the classic anti-feminist, making her a perfect example. I find it most funny however, that she does not possess the most common trait of the anti-feminist: she is not male. What is so funny to me is that the very thing she speaks out against is the very same thing that has given her the power to speak out. Without feminism, it would have been blasphemous for her to get a head for politics.
From the very start of her post she exhibits one of the most common and at the same time most fallacious tactics of anti-feminists. She begins her post by talking about the horrors of misogyny that take place in other countries and about how American feminists are busy fighting for things like gay marriage instead of combating what she considers to be the real malignancies to women. This is a classic distraction/straw man technique. She fails to address the fact that feminists fight all kinds of intolerance and inequality, including the violence in other countries, as well as the violence here at home. Feminists fight for equal rights, big or small.
And the things she considers to be insignificant and/or immoral are far from unimportant. She mentions the lobbying to change the definition of marriage to include lesbian, gay, and transgendered relationships. Violence in other countries does not taking away from the fact that discrimination against the so-called “abnormal” sexuality in this country is appalling.
“Meanwhile, their American sisters are busy lobbying for hate crime penalties for anyone who dares to hurt the feelings of a gay or transgendered person.” There are two things wrong with that sentence. The fight for hate crime legislation is a necessary and important one. Also there seems to be some confusion as to the meaning of the term “crime”. Moving down a paragraph I am greeted with possibly the craziest misinterpretation of the pro-choice movement I have ever seen: “This would make legal the practise of killing a baby in the mother's birth canal.” The delusions of that sentence are so laughable it’s not even worth commentary.
Ms. Morgan goes on to suggest that the glass ceiling theory is delusional and empowerment through works like “The Vagina Monologues” is a painful reminder to women who have suffered vaginal abuse. She then states that women’s studies and queer studies courses “teach that men are bad, Christianity is outdated, and traditional values are merely a social construct designed to keep women down.” One out of three isn’t bad. Her final attempt at straw man tactics harps one of my personal favorite feminist fights. She claims that our attempt to change society’s views of masculinity is an attempt to “make shameful any vestige of manliness”. She even goes so far as to say that it is a common practice of feminists to “dope up” boys “to keep them from displaying male traits”. Delusional people are so funny to me!
As I said before, she then ends her attempt at the straw man technique in favor of outright feminist hate. Ms. Morgan begins to talk about how feminists are entirely responsible for things like the decline of the traditional family structure, insinuating as anti-feminists often do that anything but a nuclear family is inherently immoral. She engages in the usual slut-shaming, of course, for what would an anti-feminist post be without a remark on the morality of women being confined to their sexuality.
As I said at the beginning of this post I found this article hilarious with the exception of a few sentences. The other two sentences are ones in which Morgan actually implies that a woman does not have the right to her own body. I find this, not shocking as with the idea that men and women are not equal beings as before, but sickeningly disturbing. She says that “[Men] are compelled to keep up with the latest politically correct semantics or risk legal action. Think Duke Lacrosse.” and “Just as you're both ready to engage in that first kiss, he pulls back and asks your permission… Another neutered male - thank you, feminists.” It is disgusting to think that she actually believes that if a woman is raped she is just being too pc, and that the simple act of respecting a woman’s personal space automatically means that a man is sans testicles.
Overall, this is the article of a delusional, hypocritical and disturbingly socially backwards woman who is apparently in desperate need of a dictionary since she can’t even define the simple word “feminist” correctly.