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Lightning Rod of Left-Wing Hatred

In a head-scratching forum post, Democratic Underground user CitizenPatriot shares a blog post by Sarah Jones criticizing Sarah Palin’s defense of women in the David Letterman/Slutty Flight Attendant fiasco.

In another unambiguous example of Palin Derangement Syndrome, Jones tries to reason that since Sarah Palin has not performed well enough in key (feminist?) crime/sexuality statistics, she just CAN’T be a REAL feminist.

Palin is calling all feminists to arms. OK. Well, Palin as feminist is hard to swallow, but she suggests we let her record speak for her. So, let’s take a peek.

Hmmm:

Alaska’s reported rate of rape per capita is 2.6 times the national average.

Anchorage has the ninth highest sexual assault rate of any city in the United States, and Fairbanks is ranked first, at 4.7 times the national average.

Alaska’s child abuse rate is six times higher than the national average.

The state continues to rank first or second nationally in the number of chlamydia cases, a ranking it has held since 2000. In 2006, the last year data was available from the Center for Disease control, Alaska ranked 25th in rates of gonorrhea and 28th in syphilis.

The Alaska birthrate among women ages 15-19 in 2006 was 44.3 per 1,000 teens, up 19 percent from 2005.

Palin is calling all feminists to arms. OK. Well, Palin as feminist is hard to swallow, but she suggests we let her record speak for her. So, let’s take a peek.

Hmmm:

Alaska’s reported rate of rape per capita is 2.6 times the national average.

Anchorage has the ninth highest sexual assault rate of any city in the United States, and Fairbanks is ranked first, at 4.7 times the national average.

Alaska’s child abuse rate is six times higher than the national average.

The state continues to rank first or second nationally in the number of chlamydia cases, a ranking it has held since 2000. In 2006, the last year data was available from the Center for Disease control, Alaska ranked 25th in rates of gonorrhea and 28th in syphilis.

The Alaska birthrate among women ages 15-19 in 2006 was 44.3 per 1,000 teens, up 19 percent from 2005

There are so many factors that affect crime rates it’s automatically disingenuous to fault any state’s governor for poor rates without a thorough explanation. By such hideously twisted logic, one could say Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick isn’t black because 45% of murder victims are black but only 5% of the state’s population is black. How absurd is that? It is the same with the Jones’ flimsy assertions about Palin.

It’s fascinating how the many on the left attribute god-like power to those they simultaneously hate and miscomprehend. Something about Sarah Palin really cuts them deep to their core.

Amazing post by mayfly at Feministing.

This post was inspired by an obnoxious beat down I got recently at another blog when I dared to refer to myself as a rape victim. Apparently there was nothing wrong with my post except for my “offensive” use of the word victim when referring to myself.  

The woman is extremely brave.

3:46PM UPDATE: Just for clarification, I was NOT raped. The purpose of this post is to highlight the courage of poster “mayfly” over at Feministing. I encourage everyone to read carefully before coming to conclusions.