There’s a new four-letter word.
It starts with an “r” and rhymes with “grape”.
Colorado Rep. Joe Salazar (D) suggested that women are too paranoid to responsibly carry a gun
But…bbbut…WAR ON WOMEN!
…a failed attempt to make the point that allowing college students to carry concealed weapons on campus won’t actually help prevent sexual assaults.
Thank God! I thought he was just making an exceptionally sexist statement. It was just a failed attempt to explain away concealed carry.
According to Tara Culp-Ressler:
[t]he Larimer County Republican Women set out to prove that women need more than just whistles to protect them from rape. But they chose to do so by mocking sexual violence itself, compiling a fake ‘rape defense kit’ with a whistle and a pen and labeling it ‘In Case of Rape, Robbery, or Assault OPEN IMMEDIATELY.’
Well played, Larimer County Republican Women.
Of course, the fact that Salazar implied that women may be too emotional to recognize whether or not someone is actually threatening them is offensive, and reinforces the deeply-entrenched attitude that women can’t always be trusted because they sometimes falsely ‘cry rape.’
Of course it’s offensive! Which is why we want to get this disclaimer out of the way as quickly and painlessly as possible.
But making light of the sexual violence that remains incredibly prevalent on college campuses — an estimated one in four women will be sexually assaulted while they are in college, and university officials have been notorious participants in perpetuating rape culture — is an offensive counter to the Democratic lawmaker’s original comments.
First of all, ‘making light’ of sexual violence is offensive?
SHUT IT DOWN, SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS ORGANIZATIONS.
Second, the only university officials who are notorious participants in “perpetuating rape culture” (one of those subcultures the kids are into that I totally don’t get) are the ones that rape students.
And third, the counter is “offensive”. Well, we might as well just pick up our ball and go home now.
Saying that women can’t be trusted with a gun because they’re too emotional to handle one is patently offensive.
Lampooning the ridiculousness of that statement by showing the only tools left a woman can use to defend herself since a gun is now out of the question is patently hilarious.
Getting offended over the second far more than the first is patently stupid.
Class dismissed.
