Chicks ain't nothin' but bitches

Big, strong Norm at onegoodmove has provided a link to a story that's got little ol' me all a'twitter.

It's about a MISS Ruth Maholtra. She's a 22 year old student at Georgia Tech University, ardently conservative, and, judging from her many documented cases of rabble-rousing, I think she's a little bit addicted to the thrill of creating controversy.

In her latest audacious display of very undainty aggression, she's fighting against her school's policy of protecting homosexuals from hate speech.

Speaking as a proud Libertarian, I agree that laws protecting ANYONE - gays, blacks, women, dumb-fuck Christians - from hate speech are ridiculous. Human beings are, by nature, hateful, judgemental creatures, and any attempts to legislate that out of us is bound to fail.

It does nothing but create a warped sense of entitlement from those being protected, and hostility and resentment from those who are stifled. Forced sensitivity has not worked thus far. And it never will.

But the interesting thing I've discovered in my brief research of MISS Malhotra, is that she's a living, breathing stereotype of the contemporary young conservative; very religious, pro-Bush, anti-abortion, advocate of traditional families, etc. In short, she, like the rest of her clean-cut cohorts, are hippies in reverse. The times, they are a-changin', indeed.

I fully accept the ebb and flow of the social pendulum. That whatever popular mind-set was once on top, will eventually be trampled upon, only to rise up again one day. But what I just can't understand about these New Lady Conservatives (Official Motto: You're going backward, baby!) is their vein-bulging, reactionary hatred of the women's lib movement. These dames just despise the bra-burners of the 60's and 70's.

It strikes me as odd because, essentially, all the major players of the era, Greer, Steinem, et al, and the movement itself have strategically been marginalized. They play almost no role in the public discourse any longer, apart from being the target of scorn and derision and blamed for almost everything that's wrong in contemporary society.

Here is what MISS Maholtra has to say about Betty Friedan:

Friedan, rooted in radical activism, provoked her generation of women with anti-male sentiment, denigrating the traditional role of women and redefining the structure and composition of the American family. Freidan’s initiative spawned numerous national organizations, which continually distort facts to generate support and seek to establish a gender-neutral society without any respect to intrinsic biological and social differences. On campuses the ripple effect is obvious, as young women question the validity of traditional values and unwittingly opt for the attractive escapism offered by the feminists.

Clearly, Betty was a cunt. And, evidently, a powerful one if she's still rippling in the world of academia.

But MISS Maholtra needs enemies to rail against. And I guess that gays, atheists, Howard Dean, and people who drink and/or do the Hustle at wedding receptions just aren't enough.

So this egregious little whippersnapper will spit in the face of the very thing that most certainly helped provide her with many of the opportunities she enjoys this very day. Who cares that it was, at it's heart, sincere, but, like everything else, including her current utopian vision, ultimately imperfect?

Though I don't know for a fact, I tend to doubt Miss Maholtra is married. I imagine she, like many of her kind, is far too busy defending traditional feminine values from constant attacks to actually participate in them herself. Ironically, another freedom she enjoys thanks to the very women she derides. If this were 1955, she'd be pitied and dismissed.

And there's also something else:

"Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."

Rush Limbaugh said that. And in a final bit of irony, I've seen Miss Maholtra's picture. Oh, she definitely owes feminists a debt of gratitude.