Before Ohio moves on from the Marc Dann scandal, we should all reflect on one lesson it taught us: While Dann is certainly a creep, the woman he had an adulterous affair with is just as certainly not a victim.
Of course, that isn’t how the usual cast of feminists and sexual-harassment racketeers see it. Shortly after the scandal broke, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz weighed in with a column titled “There’s No Equal Footing in Sex with the Boss.” As she wrote, “Jessica Utovich is virtually half Dann’s age, has a smidgen of his higher education, earned about a third of his income and was employed at his mercy.” This was supposed to explain why Utovich was incapable of rejecting Dann’s sexual advances.
No one has disputed that Utovich’s affair with Dann was consensual. Nor is she a child who was being exploited by an older man. She is a 28-year-old adult who had a job in the Ohio Attorney General’s office. And yet, because of a “lack of parity” with Dann (as Schultz put it), she is now being portrayed as his victim.
This is the catch-22 that feminists — at least the ones who complain endlessly about “sexual harassment” — have created for young, working women. On one hand, they argue that women are just as smart, capable and professional as men, and therefore deserve equal career opportunities. On the other hand, they tell us that women are so easily manipulated by men that they can’t be expected to say “no” to sex with their male bosses.
She totally gets it. My guess? She'll be more than successful in what ever endeavor she chooses. Another guess? She wasn't surrounded by a bunch of bra burnin', brickenstock wearin', babes telling her, she was a "victim" her whole life.
Imagine a football coach getting up before the season and telling his team...
"Team we've really got no chance of winning many games. All of our opponents have better equipment, more coaches, better fields, and more fans.
In addition, the officiating is all stacked against us. Not only will we have to beat our opponents on the field, we'll have to overcome officials who want to hold our team down.
The only way we're going to win a game this year is if the officials help us out on the field because we can't do it on our own."
Just how successful would this coach actually be?
Yet, these are the continual lessons from clowns like Michael Pfleger, Jeremiah Wright, Geraldine Ferraro, Gloria Steinem et al.
These people continue to reinforce the notion that (name your victim group here) cannot succeed without the help of the very people they're being held down by; white, straight, males. Who really ends up with the power in that dynamic? It's not the white guys stealing the power from (name your victim group) but the victim group ceding their own power. And the victim pimps will always be there to reinforce how you've been kept down.
I always fall back to a West Wing episode where one of the female characters blasted one of the men on an issue many feminists groups were backing.
Roughly quoting
He I would think you would love this bill, you're a feminist.
Her Did it ever occur to you that this bill communicates that women can only have what men are willing to let them have? Did it ever occur to you that we don't need a man's help to be successful? Did it ever occur to you that every time we achieve something, it will be interpreted as women only achieving because "men" let us achieve. Take your bill and shove it.
This whole democratic primary has been a great lesson in who can be the weakest victim. All the while it's those damn white, gun clingin' yea hoo men in sticksville who will hold the cards for electing the next president.
The irony is oh, so, sweet.
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