Interesting to know that the first time the upper echelon of the Democratic party hear about Kos, he’s trashing half the party and running a blog that encourages massive amounts of woman-hating talk.

You send these kids to Aruba, to a situation where they can drink all day, get laid if they have any wit about them, and be adults for the first time. They’re not kids and they’re not in Epcot Center.

Nor is the media going to say that. They are not going to blame the parents for not being honest, or demanding their kids not drink. Because Natalee Holloway only had limited tools to deal with the adult situation she placed herself in. By drinking, she lowered those odds, but it is likely that her parents, school and chaperones did little to increase her awareness or decisionmaking.”

I (finally) was able to read this thing all the way to the end; I couldn’t before because I got so annoyed at the early parts.

So he’s not just blaming the girl for being (probably) kidnapped and (probably) raped and (probably) killed, he’s also blaming her parents? What about the guy(s) who did it? Jeez, I wouldn’t have guessed Kos was supposed to be liberal by reading this post.

Anyhow, mainstream politics (and, to a large extent, any organized political org) doesn’t give a shit about anything but power. Whatever it takes. Kos is certainly for nothing but having the Dems win. Garrghthpghelm! If you want to push feminist politics, I don’t believe that voting Dem anytime soon will do you any good a’tall. But that’s just me.

“Yeah, and it’s not like the anti-Vietnam folks told the civil rights folks “hey, there’s a war on, we can’t focus on your petty problems right now.”? At least, not that I recall.”

No, but if I remember Robin Morgan’s “Goodbye to All That” correctly, they did say that to *feminists* at the time. Some things never change.

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/06/adults-in-adult-situation.html

This really chaps my hide. I was sexually assaulted by someone I knew well, or at least thought I did. I doubt anyone would suggest that I never, ever befriend a man lest I get raped, but invariably the first thing people want to talk about when a woman is raped is what she did wrong to bring this on herself.

Of course, I know that this is true (well, intellectually — I’m not so sure about emotionally) but to find oneself fighting battles that ought to have been long over with folks that you thought were your allies is very disheartening. It would be like blacks finding themselves battling with the aclu over whether jim crow laws were bad.

He’s extraordinarily thin-skinned about any criticism to his blogging; it’s a rare day when he doesn’t pull out the “start your own blog” thing. He couldn’t, of course, do that with you, so he disengaged because otherwise all he has is bluster. There’s very little he will concede ground on once he makes up his mind. Some of the commenters are worse (and some are much better, which is one reason I bother reading them).

I read him mostly for the food and the local stuff; maybe it’s time to find other sources for that.

Well, there’s the knowledge that you’ve greatly reduced the chances that the women you care for will be raped, maimed, blinded, killed, rendered infertile, jailed or impoverished.

Guess that’s not good enough for some guys, however. Empathy is always a one-way street in a sexist world. It’s always women who have to shoulder the burden of understanding the other all by ourselves.

Same old, same old…