By Robin of Berkeley
November 24, 2009
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_wilding_of_sarah_palin.html
When I was in college, I read a book that changed my life. It was Susan Brownmiller's tome, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which explained rape as an act of power instead of just lust. What I found particularly chilling was the chapter on war -- how rape is used to terrorize a population and destroy the enemy's spirit.
While edifying, the book magnified the vulnerability I already felt as a female. Fear of rape became a constant dread, and I sought a solution that would help shield me from danger.
The answer: seek safe harbor within the Democratic Party. I even became an activist for feminist causes, including violence against women. Liberalism would protect me from the big, bad conservatives who wished me harm.
Like for most feminists, it was a no-brainer for me to become a Democrat. Liberal men, not conservatives, were the ones devoted to women's issues. They marched at my side in support of abortion rights. They were enthusiastic about women succeeding in the workplace.
As time went on, I had many experiences that should have made me rethink my certainty. But I remained nestled in cognitive dissonance -- therapy jargon for not wanting to see what I didn't want to see.
One clue: the miscreants who were brutalizing me didn't exactly look Reagan-esque. In middle and high schools, they were minority kids enraged about forced busing. On the streets of New York City and Berkeley, they were derelicts and hoodlums.
Another red flag: while liberal men did indeed hold up those picket signs, they didn't do anything else to protect me. In fact, their social programs enabled bad behavior and bred chaos in urban America. And when I was accosted by thugs, those leftist men were missing in action.
What else should have tipped me off? Perhaps the fact that so many men in ultra-left Berkeley are sleazebags. Rarely a week goes by that I don't hear stories from my young female clients about middle-aged men preying on them. With the rationale of moral relativism, these creeps feel they can do anything they please.
What finally woke me up were the utterances of "b*tch," "witch," and "monster" toward Hillary Clinton and her supporters early last year. I was shocked into reality: the trash-talk wasn't coming from conservatives, but from male and female liberals.
I finally beheld what my eyes had refused to see: that leftists are Mr. and Ms. Misogyny. Neither the males nor the females care a whit about women.
Women are continually sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. If under radical Islam women are enshrouded and stoned and beheaded, so be it.
My other epiphanies: those ponytailed guys were marching for abortion rights not because they cherished women's reproductive freedom, but to keep women available for free and easy sex.
And the eagerness for women to make good money? If women work hard, leftist men don't have to.
Then along came Sarah, and the attacks became particularly heinous. And I realized something even more chilling about the Left. Leftists not only sacrifice and disrespect women, but it's far worse: many are perpetuators.
The Left's behavior towards Palin is not politics as usual. By their laser-focus on her body and her sexuality, leftists are defiling her.
They are wilding her. And they do this with the full knowledge and complicity of the White House.
The Left has declared war on Palin because she threatens their existence. Liberals need women dependent and scared so that women, like blacks, will vote Democrat.
A strong, self-sufficient woman, Palin eschews liberal protection. Drop her off in the Alaskan bush and she'll survive just fine, thank you very much. Palin doesn't need or want anything from liberals -- not hate crimes legislation that coddles her, and not abortion, which she abhors.
Palin is a woman of deep and abiding faith. She takes no marching orders from messiah-like wannabes like Obama.
And so the Left must try to destroy her. And they are doing this in the most malicious of ways: by symbolically raping her.
Just like a perpetuator, they dehumanize her by objectifying her body. They undress her with their eyes.
They turn her into a piece of ass.
Liberals do this by calling her a c__t, ogling her legs, demeaning her with names like "sexy flight attendant" and "Trailer Park Barbie," and exposing her flesh on the cover of Newsweek.
And from Atlantic Magazine's Andrew Sullivan: "Sarah Palin's vagina is the font of all evil in the galaxy."
Nothing is off-limits, not actress Sandra Bernhard's wish that Palin be gang-raped or the sexualization of Palin's daughters.
As every woman knows, leering looks, lurid words, and veiled threats are intended to evoke terror. Sexual violence is a form of terrorism.
The American Left has a long history of defiling people to control and break them. The hard core '60s leftists were masters of guerrilla warfare, like the Symbionese Liberation Army repeatedly raping Patty Hearst. Huey P. Newton sent a male Black Panther to the hospital, bloodied and damaged from a punishment of sodomy.
The extreme Left still consider themselves warriors, righteous soldiers for their Marxist cause. With Palin, they use sexual violence as part of their military arsenal.
Palin is not the only intended victim. As Against Our Will described, the brutality is also aimed at men. By forcing men to witness Palin's violation, the Left tries to emasculate conservative men and render them powerless.
The wilding of any woman is reprehensible. But defiling a mother of five with a babe in her arms, and a grandmother to boot, is particularly obscene. It is, of course, Palin's unapologetic motherhood that fuels the leftist fire.
Because as a mother and a fertile woman, Palin is as close to the sacred as a person gets. She is not just politically pro-life. Her whole being emanates life, which is a stark contrast to the darkness of the Left, the life-despoilers.
These "progressives" are so alienated from the sacred that they perceive nothing as sacred. And they will destroy anyone whose goodness shines a mirror on their pathology. The spiritually barren must annihilate the vital and the fertile.
It has been almost two years since I woke up and broke up with liberalism. During these many months, I've discovered that everything I believed was wrong.
But the biggest shock of all has been realizing that the Democratic Party is hardly an oasis for women. Now that it has been infiltrated by the hard Left, it's a dangerous place for women, children, and other living things.
In the wilding of Sarah Palin, the Left shows its true colors. Rather than shield the vulnerable, leftists will mow down any man, woman, or child who gets in their way. Instead of a movement of hope and change, it is a cauldron of hate.
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
In these dark times, with spiritually bankrupt people at the helm, thank God we have bright lights like Sarah Palin to illuminate the darkness.
A frequent AT contributor, Robin is a psychotherapist and a recovering liberal in Berkeley.
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I wasn't going to post this blog, (having recently posted another of Robin's in 4.0,) but after a few of the reactions, I couldn't help but think that they exemplified the point Robin makes here. Perhaps some of you feel similarly.
1This should also be on 4.0, right next to SKG's post.
2The fanatical haters have always been on the radical left. Let me correct that since the civil rights act of 1968, when rampant racism abounded. Since 1968, the hatred has been on the left, and the MSM chose to ignore or excuse it, while magnifying alleged affronts on the right.
3Ele, I'm really glad you posted this article. Robin has put into words, what I was feeling in the pit of my stomach, when I first started hearing some of the shocking and beyond hateful words towards Palin. Honestly, I'm still shocked at how she was treated and is still being treated. I find it deplorable and the lowest of the low. If, you disagree with her then fine...but to outright say such cruel and vicious things is just sick and wrong. (I'm all for free speech, but those who say such threatening and despicable things...that shouldn't be said to any human being, imo, I have lost all respect for because, it really has opened my eyes to the hate that exists on the Left. The Republican party cares about ALL people (it's one of the reasons I'm a Republican)...and the Left has become a bastion of hate, keeping people down, separating us from one another, and even kicking Christians in the teeth...while embracing oppression and control to those they say, they are "helping"...now, they're trying to oppress and control all of us.) Btw., who in their right mind would ever wish someone to be gang raped. That thought has never even entered my mind, and I would NEVER wish it on my worst enemy. Anyone who says such things is completely soulless, imo.
4I am not one of Palin's big fans but I would never have ill wishes towards her, or any other woman who has accomplished so much.
People that thumb their nose at a beauty queen have no idea how much gumption and determination must be had to shoot for that goal. It "seems" superficial, so it therefore must be "easy" but I can say without pause that this sort of competition brings out the real character in people... and sometimes it is anything but pretty.
One thing that upset me during the political campaign was that Palin was torn apart, her entire life laid open for buzzards to pick at while the media left Michele and her two darlings alone. I viewed it as reverse racism.
Why was Michele and the Obama children "hands off?" Of course it was reverse racism. If the media, or anyone for that matter, had been viewed as overly critical that racial card would have been tossed down immediately without pause.
If the same things which were said, accusations and pointed critical observations with/without any merit----but in Michele Obama's direction rather than Palin's----the world would have been in an uproar...and it would have been labeled as racist.
When is racial hatred any less painful than bigoted attacks at women? Why shouldn't Palin be proud of her accomplishments? In reality she had more experience under her belt than Obama had in politics....yet that was rarely spoken of.
When accomplishments are then viewed as obstacles, one must begin to question who is making them so perverted and twisted.
Liberals cannot have it both ways. One cannot ignore the "specifics" in favor of "generalities" and the specifics are beginning to trip them up.
Yeah...specifics like making sure friends were given nice well-paying jobs in exchange for devotion and contributions. How about big raises for essentially destroying healthcare for the poor?
Michele Obama did BOTH of those things prior to Barak's run for office---yet is was kept very quiet. WHY? Because they still are doing this today, and convincing American's to foot the bill or be seen as "UnAmerican" .... just as the attack still continues on Palin.
Gosh...I suppose Anita Dunn was right. Obama really does control all the media.
5Anyone who underestimates the abilities of Sarah Palin do so at their own risk. No one handed her the governorship of Alaska, she took on the establishment of her own party, and beat them. The Palin interviews that made her look foolish were not the entire interview, but edited to put her in the worse light possible. She could very well turn out to be a female Reagan, the other 'amicable dunce", of the establishment.
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