As Twitchy reported this morning, attorney Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women’s Forum spoke at the senate gun-grabbing hearing. Speaking out and thinking for oneself? That doesn’t suit, according to Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin and other “feminists,” including members of the media. Not surprising, coming from a woman who heads a group that thinks vagina costumes are empowering.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/296675292565622784
Zing! For the women? Only if she is the “right kind” of woman, natch.
who the hell is this woman at Senate hearing who says she represents millions of women who want assault weapons??? craziness #guncontrol
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) January 30, 2013
OK, getting tired of Gayle Trotter's sexist argument about how weak and angry and scared women are. #guncontrol
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) January 30, 2013
Oh, honey. As we reported, the audience laughed and scoffed at Trotter. That is “heckling,” right media? It continued on Twitter. Take a look at the heckling from your colleagues, if you want to talk sexist, Ms. Wilkie of The Huffington Post.
https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/296675769399263233
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/296671696251916289
Gayle Trotter, speaker of all women, apparently: "Of course" women would follow laws if we banned high-capacity gun magazines.
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) January 30, 2013
Gayle Totter must have really been moved by Jodie Foster's Panic Room
— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 30, 2013
Gayle Trotter in sum: Moms need big scary assault weapons because, unlike you, Sen. Whitehouse, we are very small!
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) January 30, 2013
Whichever Senator invited Gayle Trotter to this hearing, the Daily Show producers have a fruit basket for you.
— George Zornick (@gzornick) January 30, 2013
Recommended
Meet Gayle Trotter, the Palin-Esque Activist Telling the Senate That Ladies Need Firearms http://t.co/PppHKJbf
— Jezebel (@Jezebel) January 30, 2013
@word_34 @Jezebe your "scientific" diagnosis of Gayle Trotter as crazy wingnut? You don't agree with her? Stop name calling.Say u disagree
— Suzie (@pinksliptv) January 30, 2013
Nope, name calling and hateful attacks are easier. New tone!
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/296696817343660032
And the attacks predictably began.
I just lost brain cells without the benefit of alcohol by skimming the hysterically undereducated rantings of that Marcote lady.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 30, 2013
Ah, yes. The always inane Amanda Marcotte. She weighed in and her fellow travelers, of course, egged her on.
@AmandaMarcotte Gayle Trotter doesn't speak for the majority of women nor does she speak for anyone who thinks. She is one crazy person.
— Lucinda Brouwer (@BrouwerLucinda) January 30, 2013
The hate aimed at Trotter continued.
So Gayle Trotter seems like a cunt.
— I find your lack of faith disturbing (@Jigsaw_george) January 30, 2013
Gayle Trotter is a crazy bitch!
— cjtown (@ladyc10) January 30, 2013
Stay classy! And, of course, out came more shrieks of crazy and stupid. Silly woman! How dare you think for yourself and seek to protect yourself? You must be cuckoo pants or a dummy. Know your place and make some liberal men a sammich!
https://twitter.com/HFD091/status/296655195721568256
https://twitter.com/sociopsychopath/status/296685229836480512
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/296675125221273600
https://twitter.com/celestemc/status/296672032022749184
This Gayle Trotter woman is certifiably batshit crazy. She makes LaPierre look reasonable.
— Dustin Calliari (@dcalliari) January 30, 2013
Gayle Trotter is an idiot. She is as crazy as LaPierre!! #guncontrol
— Norma Valentini (@NormaValentini) January 30, 2013
Gayle Trotter is Michele-Bachmann-kind-of-crazy. #guncontrol
— Tami (@Redhead_Tam) January 30, 2013
Where did they find Gayle Trotter? She's batshit crazy on the level of @MicheleBachmann #guncontrol
— Oreo (@OreoDCW) January 30, 2013
Who is Gayle Trotter, and why is she stupid? #guncontrol
— Carla Bond ? (@carlabond) January 30, 2013
https://twitter.com/libbyliblib/status/296671309226704897
CNN contributor Dana Loesch injects some much-needed sanity and some lady smarts.
VIa FBI, 10% of the 2.1m cases where firearms are used in defense annually are women defending from abuse, rape, etc.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 30, 2013
But hey, women are dumb and can't operate guns as well as men say feminists.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 30, 2013
Pick a narrative. Either women are weaklings who can't operate guns therefore shouldn't carry or they're strong enough for combat.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 30, 2013
Bingo! Now that is coming a long way, baby.
Update: And here comes a sexist parody account.
Well this was inevitable: RT @NotGayleTrotter: Equal violence for all!
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) January 30, 2013
Inevitable? Because she totally had it coming, right?
https://twitter.com/NotGayleTrotter/status/296720906263347200
The Twitter bio reads: “Guns, guns, and more guns turn me on… and large men.”
Related: