Here we are at the end of September and I nearly let the whole month go by without writing a single blog entry. I believe I would have let that happen had I not stumbled upon a headline today on my facebook feed entitled "Women Who Have Abortions Should be Hanged."
Yes, you read that correctly Kevin Williamson actually said this. He followed up saying that Doctors who perform abortions should also be hanged. I am aware that there are nut jobs in this world. I am aware that there are levels of extremism and this guy is probably at the most extreme level you can get however, these statements do not change the fact that this person is deplorable. So much so it makes me sick. The comment stemmed from an article where Williamson wrote in response to Lena Dunhams Here Are the Five Reasons Why I Vote. The Lena Dunham article was part of Planned Parenthood sponsored Women are Watching campaign. Lena Dunham is the creator and actress in the TV show Girls. Mr Williamson was apparently so incensed with this article that he responded with an article entitled Five Reasons Why You're too Dumb to Vote which I won't link to because it makes me want to puke. Google it if you think you can stand it. The display of right wing white male narcissism is unbearable. This ARTICLE quotes it at length and describes how that author turned to twitter to respond to comments about his piece and it is through Twitter that Mr Williamson comes out saying that not only does he think abortion is murder but that it is homicide and women who have abortions should be hanged littlegreenfootballs.com.
This is the same person who has said some of the most offensive and inaccurate statements in the history of saying stupid things:
1. “Can’t wait to launch my Palestine boycott. As soon as they start making something, it’s on.”
2. “Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.”
3. “The fictitious rape epidemic is necessary to support the fiction of “rape culture,” by which feminists mean anything other than an actual rape culture … ‘Rape culture’ simply means speech or thought that feminists disapprove of and wish to suppress.”
4. “Regardless of the question of whether he has had his genitals amputated, Cox is not a woman, but an effigy of a woman.”
5. “Of course the law is against Cliven Bundy. … The law was against Mohandas Gandhi, too”
6. “The guy looks remarkably like Snoop Dogg … He glances slyly from side to side, making sure his audience is taking all this in, before raising his palms to his clavicles, elbows akimbo, in the universal gesture of primate territorial challenge.”
The article containing this list written by Elias Isquith of SALON can be found HERE
Yes, the man is clearly psychotic but that doesn't mean that he is alone in his dangerous and horrific views. He wants to hang the 33% of women in this country who have had and will have abortions. It's so pro-life it nearly kills you.
