Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) Proves She Is a Special Kind of Stupid™

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It was not my plan to write about Elizabeth Plank today because, until about 2 p.m., I’d never even heard of this particular idiot, but then a commenter left this comment on an earlier post:

Someone’s still buttmad over the possibility of a woman possibly avoiding rape and insisting that constant and inescapable victimhood is empowering. Because, feminism.
Oh. It’s Liz Plank. So that’s why it’s cray cray.

Well, who is this cray-cray person?

Elizabeth Plank
Viral Content & Social Justice Editor at PolicyMic. Masters degree from the London School of Economics. Behavioral science consultant by training and feminist crusader by passion.

Uh, “Social Justice Editor”? Social justice is a mirage, as Friedrich Hayek observed, and we might therefore assume that Liz Plank‘s job is to advocate for unworkable schemes of utopian impossibility.

Nice work, if you can get it.

Liz Plank is “buttmad” about something that was published 12 days ago by Emily Yoffe at Slate, pointing out the role that alcohol plays in the date-rape phenomenon plaguing colleges and universities. Yoffe said that, for sexually predatory men, “the rise of female binge drinking has made campuses a prey-rich environment.”

This would seem to be merely a common-sense observation, which Yoffe elaborates by reference to research on the phenomenon, but feminists went nuts, screeching that Yoffe was engaged in misogynistic victim-blaming and slut-shaming and enabling “rape culture.”

Just when you thought the resulting screech-fest had played itself out — see my two cents, “The Drunk Sluts Rights Movement” —  Plank responds by complaining that telling women not to get drunk “would be sensible advice if it didn’t reinforce the very structures that make sexual assault not only possible, but probable.”

You see that word “structures”? That’s jargon.

It’s a sort of code, an intellectual signifier, a way of saying, “Hey, I paid attention in my undergrad Critical Theory seminar.”

Jargon is a method of avoiding plain truth, and the minute people start talking that way, I figure them to be pretentious idiots who arrogantly assume they can baffle us with fancy bullshit.

Liz Plank reminds me of a certain TV personality in A Hard Day’s Night, about whom George Harrison says: “She’s a drag. A well known drag. We turn the sound down on her and say rude things.”

 

64 comments

  1. Is Liz Plank a binge-drinking alcoholic? Or, like so many feminists, a product of sexual abuse who seeks atonement through substitutionary sacrifice of the latest young girls to the Democrat Rape Machine?

  2. I think she just wants to be a TV talking-head pundit, and has decided that being a feminist is her ticket to TV appearances, book contracts, lecture fees, etc. A younger, skinnier Naomi Wolf.

  3. Don’t they teach boolean logic in school anymore? For real men, gentlemen, there have always been rules about such things. You don’t hit a woman. You don’t force a woman. You don’t take advantage of a woman who’s indisposed from drugs or alcohol. But this is a NOT ONLY BUT ALSO construction: Not only do you teach men rules and fair conduct, you teach women not to be sitting ducks for people who don’t play by rules. I DON’T GET IT. How does “don’t drink until you have no control over yourself or your environment” translate to making you fair game? It’s the unfairness you have to look out for. Bad guys don’t play fair.

  4. The problem is that idiots cannot apparently tell the difference between:

    “If you make yourself a target for bad people then you are to blame, not the bad people,”

    …and…

    “If you don’t make yourself a target for bad people then you are less likely to be a victim of a bad person.”

    It’s similar to their inability to tell the difference between “keeping your plan” and “not keeping your plan.”

  5. What I despise is the “War on Human Nature” aspect of their ideology. You throw together a bunch of teenagers — 18- and 19-year-old college kids — get them all wasted on booze, and sex is certain to happen. Inevitably, the next morning, some of the females will wake up with a sense of overpowering shame and remorse about actions they only vaguely remember. If you indoctrinate these students with a lot of rhetoric about “date rape,” then some of this morning-after remorse will be converted into rape accusations. Just as predictably, these accusations will not lend themselves to criminal prosecution — a classic “he said/she said” situation, with the added complication that both the accused and accuser were both hopelessly drunk at the time of the alleged crime.

    Now, is it “slut-shaming” or “victim-blaming” or “rape culture” to point out these obvious facts? Does anyone become a “rape apologist” for simply explaining the nature of the problem?

    We are being invited into an Orwellian universe, and excuse me for not accepting the invitation.

  6. “reify”?

    Sorry, even ignoring everything else, I don’t take advice from anyone that slaughters the English language wholesale.

  7. I think it would be correct to be outraged if “rape culture” were actually reified. Fortunately we’re nowhere near that.

  8. No, “reify” is a legit word, although I have no idea what Margaret Wente wrote that inspired Plank to accuse her of “using [her] voice to reify rape culture.” In fact, the phrase “rape culture” is itself problematic. Never heard that phrase until the Steubenville case made headlines, and now it seems to be all feminists ever want to talk about.

  10. I read my 18yo daughter with Asperger’s some of the one of the previous posts on this, and her reaction to these idiot women was similar to how she reacted to the Occupy type who was attempting to debate Peter Schiff last year: “Is he(she) on drugs? Can someone really be that stupid without being on drugs?”

  12. We have a rape culture? How does one go about joining?

    I personally think we should stop the reification of the feminist culture.

  13. I still don’t know what “rape culture” is, because I don’t know anyone who thinks rape is just dandy.

    Which has me starting, just a little, at the use of “reify”, which is defined as ” to regard (something abstract) as a material or concrete thing”. It’s as if she were admitting that there is no concrete “rape culture”, and that cannot be what she is accusing Margaret Wente of doing, can it?

    In other words, her tweet means nothing.

    Oh, wait! I already knew that, and so did everyone else!

    Sorry!

  14. I don’t know – all these people talking about it as there were some identifiable “rape culture”…I guess it’s already reified?

  20. How far do they go with this? Is it “vitcim-blaming” to say that it’s stupid to leave your valuables (e.g., purse, wallet) laying around ungaurded in public expecting to find them where you left them several hours later? Is promoting common sense now verboten? Do feminists teach this self-defeating utopian nonsense to their own daughters?

  21. In my experience, you get accused of victim blaming if you say anything that isn’t totally supportive and complementary to the victim. This is to be expected, since responsibility to self is a foreign concept to the liberal / feminist / marxist / sociopath.

  23. I can sympathize with that attitude to some extent, but if fem-marxists can’t even tolerate prophylactic advice, they’re going to create more victims.

  24. Sorry, Stacy. I had to share The Stupid. It’s like Jeff Foxworthy said, “You ever see someone so ugly you had to get someone else to verify it?”

    Only in this case, the ugly in question was the raging credentialed pseudo-intellectualism. I’d heard of this overeducated moron before, and I thought she’d been mentioned here once as yet another example of how fauxminists are whackadoodle.

  25. To me, it’s more about helping us learn from others’ mistakes. The victim already has an idea what they did wrong, and it’s not productive to beat it into them or rub their noses in it. But crazies acting like potential victims can’t do anything to prevent actual victimhood is actually contributing to the thing the crazies claim to be against!

  26. Some feminist showed up at my blog the other day and said that our culture encourages rape and lets men get away with it. I told her that unless she lives in Afghanistan that’s an awfully bold assertion.

  27. I saw that yesterday. I was very, very tempted to educate the poor deluded fool, but I decided it would be a wasted effort. (past the Internet expiration date)

    I especially like that she accused you of “boogeymen” when her own precious faith in “rape culture” was just that: a boogeyman, a windmill to tilt at so that she could call herself a brave, brave “agitator” for essentially doing nothing. O physician, heal thyself.

  29. The fashionable fauxminist (I refuse to call them feminists: real feminists fight for equal rights, not trying to make women into victims they can exploit for personal/political gain) excuse is something that basically translates to “B-b-but society! Still! Blames! The victim!” and attempt to evade when asked for specific examples. None of them live in prison or Afghanistan where the accusation might hold some weight, but they never mean such places.

    The belief in “rape culture” is just that; a pseudo-scientific conspiracy theory, a religious belief. It’s a way to make themselves into their self-image of “brave crusading feminist!” without doing anything actually positive or even useful for actual women. Her flowery B.S. might be a fantastic boost for her incredibly massive ego and talk show aspirations, but for women in remote parts of the world fighting just to be able to go to school? Nah, that would take some actual effort. And you can’t even get a decent latte in Burkina Faso! The horror!

  30. Obligatory Disclaimers: 1) People should not drink themselves into oblivion such that they wind up engaging in trysts with human they are too drunk to see. 2) Any man who takes advantage of a woman in such circumstances is a cad and deserves what he gets.

    That said, it’s fascinating to me that among the drunken participants in such things, it is only the women who are allowed to abrogate self-control and responsibility. I thought the fairer sex was superior to males in every way, yet apparently its members become complete idiots after a few long island teas.

  31. Side note– if you look up ‘unbe’ in the Official Scrabble Player’s Dictionary, there is a note: “This verb cannot be conjugated.”

  32. Its kinda problematic. Are women too stupid to recognize the obvious that getting fallen down drunk is likely to mean sex, or is it that they fully intended to have sex and getting falling down drunk was their alibi for their behavior?

    And my experience with drunks is practically nil, but I would think they are still responsible enough. We slam hard the DUI person, after all.

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