Rush Limbaugh’s Defense For His Justification Of Rape Makes Matters Worse

When Rush Limbaugh took to the air to vindicate every rapist who ever claimed that the woman “really wanted it,” he found himself the subject of widespread revulsion and ridicule – again. His comment that “No means yes, if you know how to spot it,” gives permission to assault women after they’ve explicitly asked to be left alone. According to Limbaugh, those with advance perception skills know what women actually want and to deny these male mind-readers satisfaction “takes all the romance out of everything.”

Rush Limbaugh

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was one of thousands of critics blasting Limbaugh for his boorish advocacy of violence against women. As a part of their campaign to publicize Limbaugh’s comments, they sent emails to supporters that included a petition to persuade advertisers to shun Limbaugh. It also included a request for donations, as do all DCCC emails. Not surprisingly, this produced a response from the Limbaugh camp complaining that he had been taken out of context and that…

“The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee emails about Rush Limbaugh are an intentional lie, using 10 words carefully selected from his full comments to imply the opposite of what he actually said.”

Nowhere in the response did Limbaugh’s spokesman indicate what the alleged lie was. Nor did he bother to put Limbaugh’s remarks in what he considered to be the proper context. And as to whether a full reading of Limbaugh’s remarks would reveal that he was saying the opposite of what was implied, well, you can listen to 346 words and decide for yourself:

The actual context of these statements was with regard to a policy at Ohio State University aimed at reducing the incidence of sexual assault and date rape. Limbaugh was criticizing the policy and arguing that consent is not a prerequisite for sexual activity. He further mocked it by claiming that it would only lead to frivolous lawsuits. What’s more, Limbaugh believes that it’s absurd to expect men to be respectful of women because their compulsion for sex overpowers their capacity for rational decision making.

“I don’t know how men can be held to that Ohio State agreement, policy, anyway, because everybody knows in sex men don’t think with their brains. Not the one in their heads, anyway. It’s just so silly.”

So in his argument that women are so dumb that they can be ignored when they express their wishes, Limbaugh actually asserts that men are too dumb to make responsible decisions. This tells us something about Limbaugh’s experiences with women and his own ability to conduct himself civilly. He is advancing a concept of gender relations that is more aligned with our prehistoric ancestors than with modern society.

Given his perverse view of sexuality and the welfare of women, it explains why he is on his fourth wife and has had to acquire massive quantities of Viagra on the black market.

Shameless self-promotion…
Get Fox Nation vs. Reality. Available now at Amazon.

Advertisement:

4 thoughts on “Rush Limbaugh’s Defense For His Justification Of Rape Makes Matters Worse

  1. When oh when is Rush Limpballs going to get his comeuppance?

    He’s such a putrid excuse for a human being; must have been abused as a child; his mother probably hates him…

  2. I would think that the people who are most offended at what this pathetic person says aren’t listeners of his anyway. Boycotting his sponsors could be effective but people tend to lose interest with that if the sponsors are products or services that they like and if they don’t generally buy those products then it’s not really a boycott. Trying to find some legal means of suing him or having him removed from the air because he’s encouraging violence against women would be nice but probably not easily done. I hope that a large number of his current audience will abandon him based on his most recent comments but that doesn’t seem likely either. He appeals to a certain segment of society that believes what he’s preaching. They’re the people who think women and minorities and liberals are less than . . . not as good as . . . not equal to the good ‘ol white, Christian heterosexual men that follow Rush. Using the excuse de jour, it’s how they were raised and they turned out just fine. I have no idea why or how he has any women who haven’t been lobotomized in his fan base but there do seem to be some. Maybe it’s how they were raised, by obnoxious, controlling fathers who sold them into marriage to obnoxious, controlling husbands. I just wish that something could be done to get this guy off the air. Rant over.

  3. The Young Turks covered this. They mentioned that Rush “forgot” to mention “Consent is a knowing and voluntary verbal or non-verbal agreement between parties to participate in each and every sexual act” (emphasis mine) and “Consent can be withdrawn at any point, as long as he or she clearly informs the other party that he or she is withdrawing”, so no written contract is necessary. (Quotes from “Student Conduct” handbook.)

Comments are closed.