From the "you can't make this stuff up" department: Hillary White, a writer for the right-wing news site LifeSiteNews, suggests that the Costa Concordia tragedy was caused by--wait for it--feminism! (h/t to PFAW's Right Wing Watch)
What kind of man sneaks away under cover of darkness from his own sinking ship, leaving nearly 4200 passengers and crew to fend for themselves? What kind men knock aside old ladies, little girls and young mothers to get to lifeboats first? Why, modern men, sexually emancipated men who have been raised on the tenets of feminism and our “contemporary” mores.
What can an expression like “women and children first” mean to modern men who have been taught all their lives that women are nothing more precious than sexual playthings, and children nothing more than a disposable burden?
Let's make one thing clear--Francesco Schettino deserves to have the library thrown at him for leaving his passengers to fend for themselves, despite repeated orders to get back on board. But for anyone to even try to make political mileage out of this tragedy is beyond the pale. And yet, that's exactly what White is doing here.
She claims that Schettino and the members of his crew bullied their way off the ship ahead of passengers because they have been taught over the years to see women as mere objects and playthings. Um, Hillary? How do you explain the male passengers who died because the crew wouldn't let them evacuate first?
In White's view, the tragedy is a searing indictment of Western culture. Well, there's an indictment here all right--an indictment of the religious right's complete lack of proportion.
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