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Amanda Marcotte: So Dangerously Crazy, Even Conor Friedersdorf Fears Her Now

Posted on | April 4, 2013 | 18 Comments

Amanda Marcotte: So humorless, it’s hilarious

No public controversy involving sex is complete until feminist scold Amanda Marcotte makes a fool of herself, and she’s continually striving for ever-lower nadirs of stupidity.

So, a high-school boy in Los Angeles recorded a YouTube video asking famous model/actress Kate Upton to be his prom date. Upton at first indicated on the Today show that she might accept the invitation, but then politely declined. End of story? No, because Amanda Marcotte had not yet made a fool of herself.

Just in case you’ve forgotten, Marcotte was one of two feminist bloggers (along with the hate-filled Melissa McEwan) who was hired by the John Edward presidential campaign in 2007, inspiring the memorable headline, “Vote for Edwards, Godbag Christofascists!”

As PJMedia’s Bryan Preston points out, “Marcotte is so entertainingly nuts that we once made a movie about her.”

How did Marcotte react to the Kate Upton prom-date story? By interpreting it through a prism of sexual violence:

The lesson learned: You may be a rich and famous model, but any random man can, just by making a video, force you to do a little song and dance about how delightful his attentions are.
Instead of applauding Davidson for this, adults should be appalled. All that’s been taught here to young men is that they are entitled to women’s attention simply because they ask for it. . . . This entitlement we teach men crops up all the time for women, and it’s rarely as cute as a silly comedy video: When a man demands that you stop on the street to entertain his proposal of going back to his place and then follows you for blocks because you pretended not to hear him. When a rape victim is told that if she didn’t want to have sex, she shouldn’t have gone to the rapist’s hotel room. When a woman files for a restraining order because she’s afraid her abusive husband means it when he says that if he can’t have her, no one can. . . .
[M]en who are violent feel justified because they believe that women owe them their attention, their bodies, and their love. By joining in the collective pressure on Upton to give her attention . . . to a young man just because he wants it, we’re contributing to the overall culture of male entitlement.

Could we unpack the bizarre and tendentious assumptions packed so tightly into Marcotte’s pointy head? Yes, we could.

Do we really need to bother doing so? No, we don’t.

Because Ace of Spades notices that Marcotte’s argument is so preposterous even Conor Friedersdorf objects to it.

Friedersdorf’s usual gig is denouncing any successful or influential conservative spokesman — Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, et al. — but he took time out from his assigned duties at The Atlantic to expose Marcotte’s crypto-Marxist idiocy:

Her ideology causes her to write as if she doesn’t understand what is plain to most observers: Kate Upton is far more privileged, powerful, culturally savvy, and capable of fully exercising her autonomy than the vast majority of straight white males in America, and certainly more than a dateless, non-celebrity 18-year-old high school student on YouTube.

Now that Marcotte has jumped the Friedersdorf shark, so to speak, it’s probably safe to objectify Kate Upton again:

She’s obviously a helpless victim of the patriarchy, isn’t she?

 


Category: Celebrities, Feminism, Rule 5

Comments

18 Responses to “Amanda Marcotte: So Dangerously Crazy, Even Conor Friedersdorf Fears Her Now”

  1. JeffQuinton
    April 4th, 2013 @ 3:26 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Amanda Marcotte: So Dangerously Crazy, Even Conor Friedersdorf Fears Her Now http://t.co/B9ZPTz2Fpx #TCOT

  2. Gerard Vanderleun
    April 4th, 2013 @ 4:49 pm

    Somebody needs to punch Amanda’s dance card with a nail gun.

  3. Phineas T. Barnum
    April 4th, 2013 @ 4:50 pm

    Please put the Rule 5 picture at the top next time.

  4. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 4th, 2013 @ 5:36 pm

    Here is my Tale of Two Amandas post, updated, with an appropriate Rule 5 link for Phineas T. Barnum.

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    April 4th, 2013 @ 5:40 pm

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  6. Wombat_socho
    April 4th, 2013 @ 6:12 pm

    I don’t think she dances, which may be part of her problem, IYKWIMAITYD.

  7. Josh_Painter
    April 4th, 2013 @ 6:23 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Amanda Marcotte: So Dangerously Crazy, Even Conor Friedersdorf Fears Her Now http://t.co/B9ZPTz2Fpx #TCOT

  8. n4cerinc
    April 4th, 2013 @ 6:26 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Amanda Marcotte: So Dangerously Crazy, Even Conor Friedersdorf Fears Her Now http://t.co/B9ZPTz2Fpx #TCOT

  9. Matthew W
    April 4th, 2013 @ 8:16 pm

    Do you get the feeling that Amanda Marcotte is seriously lacking in overnight gentlemanly activity?

    Maybe that would put her mind right.

  10. Modern Comments
    April 4th, 2013 @ 9:22 pm

    Shorter Marcotte:

    Flowers? Sexual violence!
    Chocolate? Sexual violence!
    Compliment? Sexual violence!
    A date? Sexual violence!
    A joke? Sexual violence!

    If someone asked her what color the sky is, she’d probably scream, “Sexual violence!” too…

  11. Adjoran
    April 4th, 2013 @ 10:47 pm

    Well, her prospects are probably limited to the hearing impaired – a few minutes of listening to her would send the horniest horn-dog looking for a monastery to join.

  12. Adjoran
    April 4th, 2013 @ 10:49 pm

    I thought the Amanda shot was poignant.

    She looks like she’s thinking about her Daddy. Again.

  13. Adjoran
    April 4th, 2013 @ 10:53 pm

    Maybe if she tried speed dating? At least she wouldn’t be talking very much, which should significantly improve her prospects.

  14. Dana
    April 4th, 2013 @ 11:43 pm

    So, when Marine Corporal Kelsey de Santis asked Justin Timberlake to the Marine Corps Ball, did Miss Marcotte protest that as well? After all, didn’t Corporal de Santis do exactly the same thing, forcing Mr Timberlake to do a little song and dance about how delightful her attention was?

  15. Dana
    April 4th, 2013 @ 11:44 pm

    Miss Marcotte has been living with a gentleman by the name of Marc Faletti for many years.

  16. Eric Ashley
    April 5th, 2013 @ 1:22 am

    Our condolences to Mr. Faletti then. Better to live in the corner of a house than in a wide house with a loud woman.

  17. SDN
    April 5th, 2013 @ 7:25 am

    Why are the words “omega male” running thru my head?

    Not enough Viagra in the Creation….

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