Feminist Hands Drip Woman Blood

To the illogical feminists we again turn:

For once, just for once, I wanted to try to have a discussion about a woman getting raped and murdered that DIDN’T devolve into an extended rehash of the same goddamn argument we always seem to have whenever a rape and/or murder of a woman is discussed: Namely, we start out on topic, then someone has to come in and blame the victim (she was drunk! doesn’t she know there were consequences! she was dressed like a hoochie! she was a stripper! she must be lying! what was she doing alone at night? what was she doing trusting a man?) and we’re off to the races.

And inevitably, in all the talk about what the victim did or didn’t do and whether the natural consequence of having a few too many and making some poor parking decisions is to be abducted, raped, murdered and your body left in a dumpster, someone disappears.

And that person is the rapist/murderer.

What our benighted little feminist fails to understand is that by excluding the woman from responsibility, she is forced to accept the behavior of men. If women cannot be expected to change their behavior, we are left pleading that men do not rape and murder. Yet as Camille Paglia notes, "Ethical men have always opposed rape"; the same can be said for murder. My copy of Meditations is not presently with me, but Marcus Aurelius chides himself for expecting wicked men to act otherwise, for, he notes, they will always act in ways their nature compels them to act. In other words, rapists tend to rape and murderers tend to murder.

Now it is entirely possible that the mass of men, being mal-educated as they are in the public schools, have little grasp on morality. But it takes an especially naive person to believe that all rape and murder would cease--if only we would tell the rapists and murderers the harm which they are doing. And yet this is the suggestion, whether she knows it or not, of Zuzu over at Feministe.

The reality is this. Wicked men will always do wicked things; they have done so throughout history. The fact that the 20th century was the worlds bloodiest should disabuse anyone of the notion that we are making real progress in removing wickedness from the hearts of men.

Women, then, must take responsibility for their lives as best they can. In a fallen world, it is impossible to prevent all rape and murder from taking place, but there are a few things they can do to minimize the risk of falling prey to a man gone bad.

1) Travel in groups. A lone woman is a target in ways that a group of women are not. Additionally, if one can find a man--or men--one can trust, he--they--should tag along. Acting thusly severely mitigates the potentiality for victimization.

2) Avoid drunkenness. Alcohol lowers inhibitions and impairs judgment. Decisions we make while under the influence often seem profoundly idiotic when pondered the next morning. Drinking is fine--I would say wonderful--but if a woman is going to imbibe substantially, she needs to have someone watching out for her. Elsewise, she may find an unscrupulous man is willing to do just this; and she may be too powerless, or simply to apathetic, to resist.

3) Don't go home with a man you just met unless you have no qualms doing anything and everything his devious might suggest. Certainly a woman has the right to refuse to do things she would not like to do, but when she is removed from the public eye, she is powerless to enforce this refusal. So-called date rape is unfortunate, but it is almost always preventable, which makes it all the more tragic.

4) Strongly consider arming yourself. Amazon exceptions aside, almost all men are stronger than almost all women. But a firearm is a reliable equalizer. Nothing reinforces a "no" like several inches of steel. Of course, to ensure that packing heat does the job it is intended to do, one must be sober enough and confident enough to see the job through, to the bloody end if need be. For the former, self-discipline will suffice, and for the latter, classes can be taken.

Feminism once had a noble vision. Men and women were to be equals. Yet biology has discouraged this, as men are still substantially stronger than women. Feminism's inability to come to terms with this obvious fact has doomed it to failure. Denying that women are to take any responsibility for their actions, they instead implore men not to take advantage of the situations in which women have so placed them.

How many more women must be raped and murdered before strong women--the very type the movement was to create--stand up and refuse to be dictated to by men--the very thing which the movement was set out to abolish? The absolute irony would be humorous were it not so tragic. The status quo is painfully inadequate for preventing rape and murder. One hopes feminism gets its act together--and fast.