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mfcorey1

(10,997 posts)
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 10:30 PM Jun 2013

WSJ's Taranto: "Female Sexual Freedom" Has Led To A "War On Men"




MARY KISSEL (host): President Obama is fond of talking about the war on women, but what about the war on men? We've got Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto here to talk about an especially perverse example of this war. James, who is Lieutenant General Susan Helms and how is she a victim of a war on men?

JAMES TARANTO: Well Susan Helms was a female pioneer, she was the first American military servicewoman in space. She graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1980, became an astronaut in 1990, flew on the space shuttle six times, four times as a crewman and twice as a passenger en route to the international space station, where by the way she set, along with a male astronaut, the record for longest space walk. She was working on a docking device known as a pressurized mating adaptor. And they were out in space for 8 hours and 56 minutes.

KISSEL: I see. But your op-ed in the paper today says that she's somehow a victim in a war on men? How is that?

TARANTO: That's right. Well, this goes back to the effort to combat, the political campaign against sexual assault in the military. And this seems to be turning into an effort to criminalize male sexuality, much as we see with sexual conduct codes on campus. And so what happened was, the general exercised her authority to grant clemency to an officer under her command, a man named Captain Matthew Herrera, who had been convicted of aggravated sexual assault, in a case in which the factual underpinnings were quite thin. The general wrote a long memo explaining why she made this decision and it's very convincing, and Senator Claire McCaskill has put a permanent hold on the general's nomination. She was nominated by President Obama to serve as vice commander of the Air Force Space Command. Claire McCaskill says she's not going to let her through, because she wants to callattention to this problem of sexual assault in the military.

KISSEL: So the women are always victims, regardless of the facts?

http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/06/18/wsjs-taranto-female-sexual-freedom-has-led-to-a/194507
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WSJ's Taranto: "Female Sexual Freedom" Has Led To A "War On Men" (Original Post) mfcorey1 Jun 2013 OP
Tranto is mad because... Archae Jun 2013 #1
does this utter crap actually surprise anyone? niyad Jun 2013 #2
Disgusting! Just Saying Jun 2013 #3

Archae

(46,260 posts)
1. Tranto is mad because...
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 10:33 PM
Jun 2013

With his attitude and ugly chinless face, he couldn't get laid even if he paid for it.

Just Saying

(1,799 posts)
3. Disgusting!
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 10:43 PM
Jun 2013

What's amazing is that this idiot actually exemplifies the war on women and rape culture.

Getting drunk and getting in a car is NOT consent.

Walking into a bedroom is NOT consent.

Text messages prove, what exactly? Certainly he's not suggesting texting or even a relationship implies consent?

Blech!


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