Meghan O’Rourke in Slate today [1], makes what has become the traditional Feminist argument against tradition… It’s all Madison Ave, it’s a sign the woman is property… a badge of slavery and whatever else… All the standard lines the socialist left uses.
This is the same crowd that’s been loudly arguing against the military establishment in general, and in particular are actions in the Middle East of late. Granted, they argue from the standpoint of the aforementioned Frankfurt school [2], but that’s another linkage.
But it strikes me that the linkage that they utterly miss, is that said military establishment must be doing its job correctly, if brain dead people like O’Rourke have the luxury to sit around arguing about minutiae like diamond rings on engaged women. They’d be running for their lives, otherwise. Or arguing about what eye shadow goes with a particular color of Burka.
(Shake of the head)
Update: Reax from Jonah Goldberg [3]