Sadly, yes.
PolicyMic executive social editor and proud feminist Elizabeth Plank was pleased as punch with Gloria Allred’s take on Elliot Rodger and mental illness on today’s “Ronan Farrow Daily”:
https://twitter.com/feministabulous/status/471339609176436736
Got that? She loves it! (You can view the video for yourself here.)
Transcript:
Allred: What I want to say is that part of mental illness is male chauvinism. Male chauvinism has been demonstrated, has been said by the American Psychiatric Association to be a certifiable mental illness.
Farrow: It’s a mental condition.
Allred: Yes, and it is dangerous to women’s health and I’ve said that [for] years, because male chauvinism is all about an artificial stereotype of women and men. It’s about power over women. It’s about control over women. It’s about treating women as sexual objects. And all of that appeared to be present in the perpetrator of these horrific crimes.
Just like Plank, Farrow thought Allred was right on the money:
Farrow: And describing it as a mental health condition really does seem apt here.
Smart take, huh?
https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/471340065579601920
B: That is the most ridiculous statement I’ve heard this week. Mental health problem? @feministabulous @GloriaAllred
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) May 27, 2014
@feministabulous @GloriaAllred @RonanDaily This isn't an intelligent statement.
— AstrO (@Mi_Astronauta) May 27, 2014
That’s a polite way to put it. Dana Loesch was a little more blunt:
Idiotic. https://t.co/H02Sp4oZGC
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 27, 2014
Seriously.
Everyone wants to classify everything as a "mental health issue" so it absolves people of responsibility for their own actions.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/Roger247/status/471343005061103616
Pretty much, if you go by Allred’s brand of logic.
We can talk about mental health all day but when we start labeling evil or behavioral choice as "mental," what's the point?
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 27, 2014
Being a misogynistic douchebag doesn’t make you mentally ill. It makes you a misogynistic douchebag. And suggesting that male chauvinism is a form of mental illness diminishes the seriousness of actual mental illnesses.
Every action a man takes that you disagree with is suddenly a mental health issue? Give me a break. @feministabulous @GloriaAllred
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) May 27, 2014
Let’s turn the focus away from actual mental illness and put the label on something we don’t like so people will focus on THAT. – feminists
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) May 27, 2014
Word of advice to Plank and all so-called “feminists”:
Okay. A: If you want people to take you and your cause seriously, make sure @GloriaAllred does not enter into the equation @feministabulous
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) May 27, 2014
Yep.
https://twitter.com/CFLancop/status/471351933307867136
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with an additional tweet.
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