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This Probably Counts as a Macroaggression
Christina Hoff Sommers is probably the sharpest writer and thinker on modern feminism that we have on our side of the fight — which means that she must be resisted and declared an Enemy of the People.
When Sommers went to speak to a group of Republican and Libertarian students at Oberlin College last month, a coalition of fragile porcelain dolls concerned students posted — I am not making this up — “A Love Letter to Ourselves” (probably a serviceable title for any document produced by this cohort), calling Sommers a “rape denialist” because she has questioned the assertion that one in five women on college campuses have been sexually assaulted (Yes, it did include trigger warnings).
There is an argument about Pamela Geller’s cartoon contest, favored by Bill O’Reilly as well as by many garden variety liberal pundits, that goes like this:
I’ve made a concerted effort of late to avoid falling into the trap of believing that the current generation of young people is any more problematic than young people of the past. History is replete with examples of elders lamenting the inferiority of their progeny. If every generation were truly more worthless than the last, society would have come crashing down long ago. Determined to break me of this best practice are the editors of Georgetown University’s school paper, The Hoya.
