First, it viciously ridiculed a serious problem women around the world, particularly in patriarchal cultures, face.
Hogwash.
Steyn viciously ridiculed one of your sacred cows, multiculturalism. I can't think of anything more worthy of ridicule than the following statements:
Rather, the professor insisted, "Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes" because their manner of dress would be regarded by Muslim men as inappropriate. "Norwegian women must realize that we live in a multicultural society and adapt themselves to it."
Steyn is standing up for the rights of Western women not to have to kowtow to Muslim men in our own world.
The Norwegian professor is using the old male line, "she asked for it." That's one of the standard defenses in a rape case, "She led me on. She was dressed like a slut. Therefore, I did to her what one does to sluts."
Steyn then connects this argument with the other blame-the-victim argument we hear so much these days, on this thread even, "Americans need to examine the root causes of why they were attacked."
Every time I hear this, I think of a photo I have downloaded on my computer, a woman holding a small infant out of a window in one of the burning Twin Towers, so it can breath. I'll post a link to it later today so you can see what I see.
I suggest that you need to get your irony meter checked, it seems to be defective. |
