She is right but the double standards sting. Not only that, they piss me off and make me rage-y because this is the same woman that, a mere three months ago was saying stuff like this:
I see that Julian Assange is accused of having consensual sex with two women, in one case using a condom that broke. I understand, from the alleged victims’ complaints to the media, that Assange is also accused of texting and tweeting in the taxi on the way to one of the women’s apartments while on a date, and, disgustingly enough, ‘reading stories about himself online’ in the cab.
Both alleged victims are also upset that he began dating a second woman while still being in a relationship with the first. (Of course, as a feminist, I am also pleased that the alleged victims are using feminist-inspired rhetoric and law to assuage what appears to be personal injured feelings. That’s what our brave suffragette foremothers intended!).
But then she is portrayed as the champion of women’s rights everywhere. Not just “one of us” but more so, “one above us”. And for me, she has sadly lost all credibility. Moreover, give me the likes of Sarah Palin, transparently working to undermine rights rather than a “Wolf in her sheep’s clothes” because, honestly, her hypocrisy is sickening.
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