Stay classy, conservatives: the hashtag #LiberalTipsToAvoidRape spent much of this week trending on Twitter.
Some choice excerpts:
And a special WTF for Fox News’s Dana Perino, who apparently couldn’t come up with a better #ff than the creator of the hashtag, @SooperMexican:
(Mother Jones has a good description of the hashtag’s origins here.)
“Memo to all the dudes who, in the comments to this post [http://www.wrongingrights.com/2013/01/what-if-we-responded-to-sexual-assault-by-limiting-mens-freedom-like-we-limit-womens.html], confidently claimed that misogyny is a thing of the past…”
Not remembering the conversation to have taken that path, I went back and reviewed the comments, then searched for “misogyny”. There were 5 occurrences, none of them associated with any support for that concept. As usual, you’ve allowed a good generalisation to get in the way of the truth. Still, we dudes have come to expect that from a chick like you.