Thursday, December 04, 2008

Letter to a handcuffed feminist

This little piece is about a right-wing speaker whose speeches at college campuses have been the subject of protests.

You don't have to know why (I understand he's a pro-lifer). It's just funny.

I finally confronted the protestor at Agnes Scott pointing out that she hadn’t listened to or understood the speech. So she approached me after the speech asking for an apology for offending her. The speech, by the way, was about how feminists have started to use one imaginary constitutional right – the right to be un-offended – to keep people from trying to restrict another imaginary constitutional right – the right to murder innocent children. We never had an actual discussion about her problems with the content of my speech or any of her solutions. But she managed to get everyone in the room to focus their attention upon her. Like you, that was really her only objective.