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Jessica Valenti: Candidate for the 'Slaughterhouse'?

By Robert Stacy McCain on 4.27.09 @ 9:07AM

One of the delightful recent additons to the print version of The American Spectator is the "Slaughterhouse" feature, wherein some newly-published liberal book is eviscerated. If no one has called dibs on it yet, J.P., I confess to pondering with sadistic glee the prospect of shoving through our meatgrinder The Purity Myth, by that spectacular specimen of feminist lunacy, Jessica Valenti. She appeared on NBC's "Today" show last week, and MSNBC excerpts Valenti's introduction:

There is a moral panic in America over young women's sexuality -- and it's entirely misplaced. Girls "going wild" aren't damaging a generation of women, the myth of sexual purity is. . . . It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

Note well Valenti's dishonest use of the first-person plural possessive, "our daughters." She is childless and has, to my knowledge, never declared any interest in, or intention of, bearing children. It is instead your daughters whom she wishes to indoctrinate with her ideology. Since that ideology cannot be described as feminism -- it has nothing to do with the political, legal or economic rights of women -- I hereby dub it "whorism."

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MattSwartz| 4.27.09 @ 9:43AM

No, they're all Jessica's daughters, too, really. Not in a biological sense, but by virtue of the deeper, more socially informed responsibility that graduates from elite colleges exercise on behalf of the rest of us.

/Ivy league'd

Martine| 4.27.09 @ 11:49AM

She's an idiot. Go look at her web site.

Red Phillips| 4.27.09 @ 2:10PM

Hey RSM, I just read that uber neocon keyboard warrior Charles Johnson (Little Green Phonycons) has threatened to "expose" you. Whew, I bet you are shaking in your boots. This clown defended the DHS/SPLC slur job. Does any serious conservative take that blowhard seriously?

Katie| 4.27.09 @ 10:51PM

Well, I hope and pray you don't have any daughters, let alone any children. Your wonderful word "whorism" I think sums up everything that is wrong with men today, and perfectly illustrates Valenti's point. Thanks for doing her job for her.

Ruby| 4.29.09 @ 12:24AM

First of all, Jessica went to a state school, not an ivy league school. Second of all, where in that quote does she in any possible way promote promiscuity? It's there clear as day--she just wants women to be judged on their merits, ethics, and personalities--NOT on what they do with their vaginas, whether they shroud it in a promise of virginity or have one-night stands every weekend. She doesn't care--as long as they're safe and self-aware.