How Can Women Join the Navy Seals…
Posted on June 1st, 2011 in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
…from which they’re now excluded…
…if they can’t handle schoolboy pranks?
So asks Heather McDonald, an editor at City Journal and fellow of the Manhattan Institute.
McDonald compares one feminist’s lament that women can’t join the Navy’s elite squad with the laments of women who are suing Yale.
….one might legitimately denounce the frat pranks for lowering the tone of discourse on campus, if it were possible to lower that discourse any further. It is not. Had a group of devotees from the Yale Women’s Center photographed themselves holding signs reading WE LOVE YALE SLUTS, everyone would have understood that it was time for Sex Week at Yale (SWAY). Past events have included a demonstration session on “Pleasuring the Pussy”; a presentation by “Babeland, America’s popular purveyor of sex toys,” on “blow jobs and cunnilingus”; and a sex “discussion” by Sasha Grey, “one of the biggest names in porn and an amazing cross-over star, winner of 7 Adult Video News Awards among many other honors.” Given the full-throated public raunch demanded by students and accommodated by the administration, the sign WE LOVE YALE SLUTS isn’t much more than an actual description of the campus scene. [Blogger: Snap!] But the basic principle of feminist domination is: “If we use crude, sexualized language, it’s ‘strong women celebrating their strong bodies.’ When a hapless man uses such language, it’s ‘crippling assault and harassment.’”
Hmmm. I have to give this some thought, but I can’t automatically dismiss the argument. I have a similar reaction whenever I see a young woman walking around with “JUICY” written on the butt of her sweatpants or jogging shorts… How do some women really expect (many/some) men to respect them when they don’t seem to respect themselves?
As I say, still pondering this….so no blogger-bashing, please.
4 Responses
6/1/2024 4:20 pm
McDonald said what needed to be said and said it very well.
6/1/2024 4:37 pm
Yes, you can automatically dismiss this argument. It is not even coherent enough to rise to the level of being ridiculous. Some people (sex-positive feminist women at Yale) are offended by sexism, therefore some people (women who want to join the SEALS) - who may not be at all the same people as the first group - should be excluded from an activity in which they’ve otherwise proven themselves qualified. That’s the argument you want to ponder?
6/1/2024 4:49 pm
@mad @er
I think you need to be a bit more coherent in your post. Dismiss what argument? What “is not even (sic) coherent enough?”
Have women proven themselves qualified to be SEALS?”
6/1/2024 6:14 pm
@Anon 4:49, Richard excerpts McDonald’s article and then writes, “I can’t automatically dismiss the argument.” I tried to reconstruct that argument. If you think you can find a better argument in the excerpt or article, I invite you to reconstruct it.