why IS it ok for Maher to say hideous things about women

[kaitcat]

53. The analogy doesn't hold.

But okay, I'll take another, more pragmatic angle -- I can set myself up for being called an angry feminist for protesting every flaw in men who can help me. If I do this, I give credence to the femiNAZI label that Rush paints on me. Yeah, that's a hard one. I can cut off my own nose to spite my face and demand strict purity of a comedian on a network that prides itself on objectifying the female form in some of the most sexist ways imaginable and demand my flawed male ally denounce that sexism because it's sexism and thus take away his voice altogether.

You fight the fights that make you stronger, that mean something when you win them, not fight the ones where you hit your head upside a brick wall and all you come away with at the end is a bloody forehead.