November 11, 2014
Rose McGowan
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As usual with these “controversies,” McGowan’s remarks were “offensive,” not because they were false, but because they were uncomfortably true.
Which is why I used the word “should” way up there: surprisingly, I”m not picking up much “burn the witch” buzz about her.
At NYMag.com, gay journalist Tim Murphy allowed, albeit ungrammatically, that “Rose McGowan’s Half-Right.”
Acknowledging that the “crude crack” (pun intended?) about “the vagina, pregnancy, or other intimacies of female biology” is a classic element of gay humor, Murphy is reduced to playing the limp “not-all” card in his community’s defense, making the pointless point that: “I don”t think every gay man is a misogynist.”
The increasingly schoolmarmish Gawker couldn”t come up with anything else to complain about, either: “[T]he way to be heard and enact change isn”t by shouting generalizations addressed to a group that you aren”t part of.”
Permit me another nostalgic reverie: Remember when “generalizations” were just “how normal people talked”? Thank God lefties weren”t around to hand out that rhetorical traffic ticket in the old days, correcting Paul Revere as he rode by: “No, NO! Some of the British are coming …”
From what I can make out by peeling away the prog-speak, Rose McGowan’s biggest sin was airing the movement’s dirty rainbow flag in public. Or, more accurately, she washed the thing on “hot,” the colors ran”and she didn”t care.
They can try renaming it “intersectionality,” but the left’s coalition of contradictory communities”socially conservative blacks, hedonistic gays, white hard hats”endured much longer than it had any right to. Are we finally witnessing its inevitable implosion?
Meanwhile, McGowan should remember the timeless words uttered by one of the last great movie “faces“”before she was slaughtered by dirty commie hippies, that is:
“I wouldn”t pay any attention to that. You know how bitchy fags can be.”
