What Feminists won't do.

The shooting in PA is a bit topic of discussion for feminists, however there is a line that even they won’t cross. They come up with catch phrases like ‘culture of violence’ and call pistols ‘weapons of mass destruction.’ But the truth is not even feminists are willing to say women should defend themselves. Not even they are willing to say ‘it’s ok for a woman to use deadly force’.

They, of course, are upset at the shooting in PA. Who wouldn’t be? Here is a situation were a mentally unstable man walked into a gym and deliberately targeted women. He fired 52 rounds, injured 9 women and killed 3. This is a horrible tragic thing. However, what amazes me is that these self professed feminist got upset when I suggested women should be armed. I got told “Guns are NOT the answer,” I’m sorry but that depends on the question. When the question is: How do we stop a psychologically broken man from unloading a couple of guns in to a room full of women (or anyone else for that matter), guns are the answer. 52 rounds means at one point he had to either reload or pull another gun. This takes a lot longer then you would think. Enough time for someone with a clear head to go for a bag that had a gun in it. (It was an aerobics class so not even I think they should have had a gun on their person) One woman having a gun in that room could have saved all or even one of the women who got shot.

But the attitude that women should never engage in violence, even for self-defense is so ingrained in our culture that despite comments like this: “This is terrorism, terrorism motivated solely by hate of a class of people, plain and simple. Terrorism motivated by a sense of entitlement.” If you say, get a gun and defend yourself, you get this: “Um, what the hell. The fact is, very few women will ever own a gun in their life. I think the statistics are something like half of men, 15% of women. Why is the onus always on WOMEN to "protect themselves," but never on men to fucking knock it off? Why should WOMEN have to do things they don't want to do, [I also find it amusing that a feminists naturally assumes girls don’t like guns] like own an item of mass destruction, to protect themselves against shit that the very culture of force and violence surrounding guns actually helps perpetuate.” I know very few women own guns. That’s part of the problem! If more women owned guns, they would have another option to defend themselves. But, while feminist see guns as a part of male privilege, they are not willing to take that privilege for themselves.

When did pacifism become a feminist value? People who walk into a building like that intending to shoot people are not going to respond to ‘Knock it off!” However, you put a few rounds at center mass, they’ll stop shooting people. Is it right that these things happen and women are specifically target? No, no more then its right when anyone else is targeted. If we, as women, will not defend ourselves from deadly force with deadly force, who will?

I always had the opinion that modern feminism was not healthy for women, too much of a victim mentality. But I never thought, they’d be actively dangerous. I never expected a feminist to say she’d rather get shot then pick up a gun and defend herself. To trot out the clichéd saying, ‘I’d rather be judged by twelve, then carried by six’. Which makes me very much NOT feminist.