By George Neumayr on 5.7.04 @ 12:07AM
What once was a men-are-dogs satirical cartoon in feminist magazines is now a photo on the front page of newspapers.
It sounds like a Sci-Fi movie conceived in the mind of Betty
Friedan: Misogynist Muslim males in an Iraqi prison under the
control of a female general are leashed like dogs for the amusement
of female guards during a game of carnal hijinks -- "2004: A Sexual
Space Odyssey."
What once was a men-are-dogs satirical cartoon in feminist
magazines is now a photo on the front page of newspapers. Will
Hillary Clinton, who sits on the Senate Committee on Armed Services
set to browbeat Donald Rumsfeld today, apologize for the photo of
the female guard leashing a Muslim male? Where did the female GI
ever get such an idea -- at the March for Women's Lives? Hillary
Clinton spoke at that vile event and wasn't shocked by the crude
behavior there. Why is she so shocked now?
Perhaps this female GI is in need of "understanding." What
horrible oppression led her and her cohorts to write "I am a
Rapest" (sic) on a prisoner's leg? Can't the feminists who cried at
Charlize Theron's Monster understand the rage this GI must
feel? Liberal Hollywood was so shocked at Charlize Theron's
performance as a truck-stop prostitute killing her clients it gave
her an Oscar. Shouldn't Michael Moore and company who cheered at
Thelma and Louise, who applauded Demi Moore in GI Jane,
who park their daughters in front of Xena: The Princess
Warrior cut this GI a little slack?
And why is the behavior depicted in the photos so appalling to
liberals? If the behavior had been voluntary, liberals would call
it free speech. Are they upset that the war has gone pay-per-view?
In the liberal mind, such acts form an important identity and
alternative lifestyle worthy of respect and tolerance. As the pop
culture they have bestowed upon us might say, "Don't be ignorant."
Who is to say those acts are wrong? After all, in Massachusetts
now, they are construed as courtship.
The Democrats don't want this to ever happen again? Okay, let's
discuss Bill Clinton's Don't ask, Don't tell, Don't care policy.
Could that perhaps have something to do with indiscipline in the
ranks? No, that's not a permissible thought, according to the
Democrats. We must close our eyes to the obvious lest the march of
progress in the military grind to a halt.
Nor will the Democrats permit their vision of a unisex military
to be a matter of debate. Even if the clock is broken, we must not
turn it back. The female GI who tried to turn that prison into a
pound personified Bill Clinton's unisex military perfectly: it is
difficult to tell if she is a man or a woman. (According to last
night's news reports, we know she's with child thanks to a fellow
torturer to whom she's now engaged.) The Democrats who said that
women could perform the dirty deeds of war as well any other man
are horrified that women are performing the dirty deeds of war, but
not so horrified that they would reconsider the wisdom of placing
women in the muck next to men. Again, not a permissible
thought.
But perhaps Hillary Clinton can at least explain to her fellow
members of the Armed Services Committee the pressing military
importance of unisex policing in Muslim countries. Surely the
Democrats so sensitive to the feelings of the "world" can promise
the Muslim world that they will no longer advocate making American
women the jailors of Muslim men? Or does promotion of women in the
military trump their customary multicultural sympathies?
The phoniness of the outrage in Washington, D.C. can't be
overstated. If a college president decided to house a fraternity
and sorority on the same dorm floor and shocking sexual
pranksterism broke out, then said, "This is deeply troubling. I had
no idea this would happen," parents would call him a jackass and
call for his sacking. Democrats do the equivalent of this in the
military and ask for reelection. When their experiment blows up in
their face they just blame the ensuing mess on the very
conservatives who didn't want the experiment conducted in the first
place. Then once the cameras stop rolling and the appropriate anger
has been exhausted, the Brave New World experiment resumes.
Life under liberalism is a Sci-Fi movie Stanley Kubrick couldn't
have dreamed up.
topics:
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood, Military, Iraq
