Spot on, Sev and Dana. Being a liberal means never being accountable for your actions – or their consequences.

The problem for the left is that they wanted the accusations to be true; it would prove how wicked we evil white men (especially with money) really are.

But think about what that means: to have wanted the accusations to be true, they had to also have wanted Crystal Mangum to have been brutally raped. I’m guessing that they never realized that, liberals not exactly being famous for thinking things through, but for their wishes (can we accept their continual bleating, including after we found out about the DNA evidence, as evidence of wishes?) to have been borne out, they had to have wanted Miss Mangum to have been an actual rape victim.

Nobody on the left really cared for “the accuser” in the first place. She was a single mother, whose choice to be a single mother meant that she was living in poverty; it doesn’t fit the liberated feminist ideal for a woman to choose to be a single mother in poverty, because they see only the Murphy Brown ideal — forgetting that Murphy Brown was a fictional character.

Crystal Mangum demonstrates the falsity of the liberal, feminist ideal. She was sexually liberated, which so many of our liberal female blogesses celebrate, and not tied down to any man, but it meant that she was rearing a child without a father and in squalor. She was a heroine when she was forced to support herself as a stripper; it became a bit seedier when everybody figured out that she was a prostitute.¹

The feminism espoused by our friends on the left yields such results. Oh, not in every case, certainly, and they always have the secular sacrament of abortion to tidy up any unfortunate ‘problems’ that may crop up, on their way to being Liberated Career Women.

But for every Liberated Career Woman, making partner in a prestigious law firm, or CEO of a major company, for every smartly dressed successful in business woman out there, how many Crystal Mangums are there out there, women working at Seven/Eleven for $7.00 an hour, women working in laundromats and grocery stores, in video rental stores, in shopping malls or in [horrors!] WalMart? How many, like Miss Mangum, wound up resorting to selling the only thing they really had, themselves?

The feminism of Pandagon is founded on illusion. The women in that mindset can be anything they wish, powerful, unmarried if they choose, live well with or without a man, and with or without children, while forgetting that the world their ideological forebears created was one in which one person’s income was no longer sufficient, in many cases, to support a family, or even onesself.

The proud, successful career woman of the Pandagonistae did not get where she is alone, of course. She has built on what her ideological predecessors created. But the world that was created was a world in which women were simply expected to work outside the home — and that changed the dynamics of the labor supply to the extent that it now usually takes two adult earners to support a family. The feminist ideal of the Pandagonistae is of the top ten percent — and that’s a woman standing on the backs of her sisters who make far less.

Why should such successful feminists, already standing on the backs of those less fortunate, who are less fortunate due to the very things they advocate, care if it required than Miss Mangum actually have been raped to achieve simply another political objective?
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¹ – To my knowledge, it has never been publicly acknowledged that Miss Mangum is a prostitute. But the DNA tests indicated the presence of “genetic material” in her body and on her clothes from five different men, none of whom were on the Duke lacrosse team. Most people are able to add 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1, in a period of time shorter than bathing or changing her underwear, and draw their own conclusions.

Apologies? Them?? Come on, ST…be serious. These are liberals you’re talking about. These are people who are transparently self-righteous, totally persuaded they’re far smarter than the rest of us simple folk, and only tenuously connected to reality. If the facts show them to be wrong, in their minds that could only mean the whole truth isn’t known yet. Admitting they’re wrong – on anything – simply isn’t in their programming.

Liberals are like Wile E. Coyote. They’re convinced they’re super-geniuses, even while every one of their ideas, plans, and causes blows up in their faces.