USA: Feministisches Kuscheln gegen kontroverse Debatte

Auch andernorts blüht die infantile Tendenz des Feminismus von heute – so sehr, dass selbst der feministisch geprägten New York Times allmählich das Verständnis dafür fehlt:

Katherine Byron, a senior at Brown University and a member of its Sexual Assault Task Force, considers it her duty to make Brown a safe place for rape victims, free from anything that might prompt memories of trauma.

So when she heard last fall that a student group had organized a debate about campus sexual assault between Jessica Valenti, the founder of feministing.com, and Wendy McElroy, a libertarian, and that Ms. McElroy was likely to criticize the term "rape culture," Ms. Byron was alarmed. "Bringing in a speaker like that could serve to invalidate people’s experiences," she told me. It could be "damaging."

Zwei Feministinnen diskutieren also miteinander, aber eine von ihnen hält den Begriff Rape Culture für alarmistisch. Daraufhin beginnt folgendes:

Student volunteers put up posters advertising that a “safe space” would be available for anyone who found the debate too upsetting. The safe space, Ms. Byron explained, was intended to give people who might find comments "troubling" or "triggering," a place to recuperate. The room was equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies, as well as students and staff members trained to deal with trauma. Emma Hall, a junior, rape survivor and "sexual assault peer educator" who helped set up the room and worked in it during the debate, estimates that a couple of dozen people used it. At one point she went to the lecture hall — it was packed — but after a while, she had to return to the safe space. "I was feeling bombarded by a lot of viewpoints that really go against my dearly and closely held beliefs," Ms. Hall said.

Auch dieser Artikel ist offenkundig keine Satire. Die Meinung, dass Männer keine Vergewaltigungskultur gegenüber Frauen hegen, wirkt auf Feministinnen traumatisierend, und sie schützen sich dagegen mit Bilderbüchern und Seifenblasen, mit Keksen und Kissen, mit Spielknete, beruhigender Musik und Fotos von herumtollenden Hündchen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erscheint es absolut nachvollziehbar, dass FeministInnen – auch denen in den Medien – die wachsende Männerbewegung so vorkommt, als würden Dschinghis Khan und seine Mongolen hier vergewaltigend und brandschatzend einfallen. Starke Frauen und Feminismus vertragen sich nicht miteinander. Wir haben es mit der intellektuellen und emotionalen Reife von Fünfjährigen zu tun.