I've been gone a few days swamped at work and this is what I come back to? [View all]

[Nuclear Unicorn]

Of course I heard about the Limbaugh controversy and I was sickened by his nasty, vicious attack. He's a pig and I had looked forward to finding a little solidarity. Yet, when I come here I see the worst excuses for why politically-approved messengers are to be given a free pass on degrading women based on the terms of their gender.

Apparently, I'm not allowed to be upset that someone used the c-word. It isn't the sexist, deragatory, demeaning, dehumanizing language that matters. Oh no. He gets a pass.

Why?

Because he's less famous? Because he has a smaller audience? Because he's on a pay service? When the hell did my humanity become subject to whether or not you have to pay to see the person whose only consideration of me extends no further than my genitalia?

Because he donated a million dollars? Just how much are your principles worth?

And Heaven forbid that such things be pointed out because anyone who does gets a pile-on of "You're sticking-up for Limbaugh!" or "You're trying to use the he-did-it-too fallacy!"

I'm sorry, are the people making this argument not able to do two things at once? Are you really so tiny-minded you can't demand an end to sexism from everyone -- equally -- period? I am a woman. It is who I am. I'm proud to be a woman. I am not to be dismissed and belittled because of it. To those who refuse to acknowledge this -- you're no better than the moralist bastards who rail about "family values" while screwing around on their wives. Stop apologizing for the chronically misogynist jerk. On the contrary, you should be the first one to condemn it because supposedly you know better whereas Limbaugh is too dead inside to sense when he's being an ass.

And don't presume to tell me when I can and cannot be offended. I'm my own person -- GET IT!

I don't need your permission to tell me when or how I'm allowed to speak my mind. I don't need you to filter what I'm allowed to read, watch, listen to or how I'm supposed to digest it. Those who are resorting to such tactics are as big a bunch of pigs as Limbaugh and his kind.

The real hypocrisy for the sexism apologists will be evident when some RW talk show host less famous than Maher goes off on a very public progressive female personality. It's not if, it's when. You're setting youselves up. You'll be quick to discard these crappy little excuses hoping to get one more RWer off the air but the only thing you'll accomplish will be to display your hypocrisy bigger and brighter than a Broadway marquee. The only thing you will have accomplished is to set back the fight against treating women like pieces of furniture.

This isn't a fight between Left and Right, because neither side is moving or being moved. This is a fight for The Middle; and yes, they hate sexist pigs like Limbaugh, but they also hate hypocrites who use sexism as a cheap political stunt.

I'm going back to work -- at least that means something.