Retired Dallas attorney Karen Wilson wrote that she was “a survivor of multiple #MeToo experiences over my 66 years, including a violent rape.”
She claimed she “loathed hypocrisy” but that it was paramount to get Trump out of office this year, even if it meant voting for a deeply flawed candidate like Biden who might have violently forced himself on an unwilling woman.
“We cannot survive as a democratic society with Mr. Trump in office for four more years,” she stated. “The need to get him out of office overrules every scruple we may have. I will live with my hypocrisy and believe that tens of millions of Americans will feel the same.”
Attorney and retired philosophy/women’s studies professor Linda Hirshman went even further in an opinion piece she wrote for the failing
Blue York Crimes today. Hirshman, a "progressive feminist", wrote that she believed Tara Reade’s rape allegation against Joe Biden – but planned on voting for him anyway:
Suck it up and make the utilitarian bargain.
All major
FEMO-RAT Party figures have indicated they’re not budging on the presumptive nominee, and the transaction costs of replacing him would be suicidal. Barring some miracle, it’s going to be Mr. Biden.
So what is the greatest good or the greatest harm? Mr. Biden, and the
RATS he may carry with him into government, are likely to do more good for women and the nation than his competition, the worst president in the history of the Republic. Compared with the good Mr. Biden can do, the cost of dismissing Tara Reade — and, worse, weakening the voices of future survivors — is worth it. And don’t call me an amoral realist. Utilitarianism is not a moral abdication; it is a moral stance.
“Suck it up” probably wasn’t the best choice of words here for the esteemed, Ms. Hirshman, for reasons that should be obvious to everyone.
Sadly, Wilson and Hirshman aren’t the only liberal women willing to turn their backs on everything real feminists fought hard for decades ago. Blue-check feminist Kate Gardiner is another:
This is my sentiment as well – Biden has to win.
I Believe Tara Reade. I’m Voting for Joe Biden Anyway.
https://t.co/hp2S5DPcCu
— Kate Gardiner (@KateGardiner) May 6, 2020
Self-important hotshot liberal feminist attorney Lisa Bloom made the same admission a few days ago.
https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/05/06/feminists-reveal-their-even-if-bidens-a-rapist-ill-vote-for-him-anyway-strategy-and-its-ugly/