Conservative personality Ben Shapiro responded to Obama’s recent op-ed in Glamour magazine with a column of his own.
“Barack Obama, said Barack Obama, is a true feminist,” stated Shapiro, before detailing exactly how “this sort of unearned moral righteousness induces nausea.”
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama (Getty Images)
Shapiro knocked Obama for asserting America needs to change “the attitude that teaches men to feel threatened by the presence and success of women” without offering “any solutions to these supposedly widespread problems.” (VIDEO: Ben Shapiro Takes Sally Kohn To Sexism School)
He just throws out the notion that he understands women’s problems. To borrow some feminist language, that’s an extraordinarily patriarchal attitude — to condescend to tell women that you understand their problems and therefore need not present solutions. As the subtext goes, all women really want is someone who can feel along with them.
But it’s worse than that. According to Obama, “We need to keep changing the attitude that punishes women for their sexuality and rewards men for theirs.” But why should anyone be rewarded for their sexuality? Do we reward people for other bodily functions and choices? Do we reward people for their eating habits? How about their bowel movements? The only sort of sexuality that society should celebrate is the kind that takes place responsibly within the bounds of marriage, given that if sexuality produces children, we want children to be born into solid, two-parent families, with their parents present. Society should be — at best — neutral about other sorts of sexuality. It seems bizarre that feminism should ask for promiscuity to be treated as virtue for women just because bad people have done so for men.
This stuff isn’t feminism. It’s just politically correct virtue-signaling.
You can read Shapiro’s entire column at Daily Wire.