Fox Pundit Says Women In The Military Should ‘Expect’ To Be Raped

[demmiblue]

Source: Think Progress

The Pentagon announced new rules last week easing the ban on women serving in combat. While conservatives like Rick Santorum are a little uneasy with the news, the announcement only formalizes military practices that were already taking place.

But Fox News contributor Liz Trotta’s commentary on the matter took the issue to a whole other level. She’s not really concerned about the “controversy” surrounding the Pentagon’s announcement. For Trotta, the issue is having “women once more, the feminist, going, wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time.” She cited a recent Pentagon report that violent sex crimes in the military have increased over the last 6 years and said women should “expect” it, decrying more levels of bureaucracy to support women who have been “raped too much“:

TROTTA: But while all of this is going on, just a few weeks ago, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta commented on a new Pentagon report on sexual abuse in the military. I think they have actually discovered there is a difference between men and women. And the sexual abuse report says that there has been, since 2006, a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults. Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact, the whole airing of this issue has never been done by Congress, it’s strictly been a question of pressure from the feminist.

And the feminists have also directed them, really, to spend a lot of money. They have sexual counselors all over the place, victims’ advocates, sexual response coordinators. … So, you have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/02/13/424239/fox-women-miliary-expect-raped/

[1ProudAtheist]

1. What

would you expect from a clown?

[liberal N proud]

2. What the

[roguevalley]

35. fuck. it is at times like this that I would like to see

roving gangs of women go and beat the crap out of people.

[Zalatix]

45. Just make sure it's not the same gangs who watched Luke & Laura

look at her, I'm sure she swooned over that crap back in the day.

[K Gardner]

3. This isn't War on Contraception.. its War on Women..

I feel a freaking rant coming on...

Santorum said last week women shouldn't serve in combat because they're too emotional, or some such b/s.

I actually interpreted what he said differently. It sounded to me like he was alleging that women serving beside men was too much temptation for sexual activity. I could be wrong. But usually, I'm not, LOL.

[appleannie1]

6. That was my first thought too

[demmiblue]

9. It sure as shite is a war on women.

This just makes me ill.

[HockeyMom]

21. He said outright women should not even be in WORKFORCE

They were meant to get married, have lots of babies, and stay home. Maybe this is the Republican plan for job creation. Women to be barefoot and pg, and MEN will take their jobs.

[tallahasseedem]

36. I have come to expect the lowest of the low from the right...

but I have to admit that I didn't see this full-blown war on women coming. Well, at least how blatant they are about it.

It's disgusting and it's time that women on the right, left, independent...anyone stand up and fight this!

[appleannie1]

4. The same as girls that wear short skirts I suppose. Apparently she does not know what rape is.

[gratuitous]

5. And not just expect to be raped, but shut up about it

Liz Trotta is a despicable human being.

[Leopolds Ghost]

7. I guess she figures that servicemen rape each other all the time.

[aquart]

8. So our men in uniform are rapists?

Is that what he wants us to believe?

[tsuki]

50. It is what they believe. So, it must be true. nt

[yellowcanine]

10. ".... people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much." WTF?

"raped too much" ?????? A little rape is okay? Words fail.

[kag]

29. That's what I picked up on, too.

What is "too much?" Wow. Just wow.

[LadyHawkAZ]

11. There's nothing quite like that ol' time victim blaming

It's sooooo much easier than fixing the actual problem.

[Canuckistanian]

12. Women "being raped too much"?

Is there a proper level of rape, in her opinion?

[catbyte]

13. Pardon my French, but what an asshole.

What's with this Republican war on women? Don't they realize that we actually vote or do they have a secret plot to repeal the 19th Amendment?


Diane
Anishinaabe and voting in MI

[niyad]

33. not so secret--some idiot "lawmaker" actually proposed repealing the 19th--last year, I think.

[Angry Dragon]

14. This woman should be axed at fox

[Lizzie Poppet]

15. "raped too much"

Because just a little bit of rape is okay, I guess...

[PatSeg]

16. "Women in the military who are now being RAPED TOO MUCH"????

Too much? There is such a thing as "enough" rape? Or acceptable amount of rape?

2012 and there definitely is a war on women. The extreme right is not disguising it behind Pro-life, anti-abortion movements anymore. It is women, it has always been women!

[Liberal Veteran]

17. At what point is it EVER okay to say that?

That is a universally insulting statement.

[joeybee12]

18. Absolutely fucking incredible...

Brain dead so-and-so.

[tosh]

19. Where do they FIND these people??

The insanity at Faux has reached an all new level.

[ZombieHorde]

20. Wow. Speaks for itself. nt

[chrisa]

22. Trotta’s head is like my wallet

empty and pointless.

[highplainsdem]

23. Liz Trotta is the evil POS who "joked" about "knocking off" Obama a few years ago.

See this old topic:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x137586

She's a psychopath.

[demmiblue]

28. Wow...

it is amazing that someone can make a comment like that and still have a television/media presence.

I know it is Fox, but...

[Mr Dixon]

24. Really

WTF tards of FOX SMH

[LiberalLoner]

25. I'm too angry about this to even post coherently.

[csziggy]

26. She must be of the generation when women who were successful slept their way to the top

Because how else would someone as clueless as this female manage to get to the position she holds?

[Taverner]

27. um excuse me but TROTTA FUCK YOU!!!!

[Matariki]

30. Hrmph. And maybe rapists in the military should "expect" to die by "friendly fire"

[LeftyMom]

31. I am reduced to speechless horror.

Perhaps moreso because that ghastly nonsense fell out of a woman's mouth.

The French Resistance dragged collaborators into the streets and shaved their heads. I don't think that's the way to deal with anti-woman women, but damned if the thought doesn't make me smile.

[Worried senior]

32. Caught a couple minutes of Morning Joe

and they were lamenting the SS and Medicare situation again, typical rep talking points about how there aren't going to be enough babies born to pay for this. People aren't having as many kids, wonder why, they can't afford them because of the reps wonderful plan for the country.

[niyad]

34. like many here, almost speechless with rage and horror. liz, you pathetic, worthless waste of skin

and oxygen--retire quietly to the obscurity you so truly deserve.

[Dirty Socialist]

37. I DON'T GET IT

I thought the spewing of misogynist bullshit was the exclusive realm of MALE assholes.

[chowder66]

40. Assholes come in all shapes

and colors and do not discriminate based on gender.

assholes are assholes. She just happens to be a supersized one.

[sakabatou]

38. I hope she has a miserable life and afterlife.

[Aerows]

39. "Raped too much"

Well, now.

Exactly what is "feminist" about not wanting to get "raped too much" or how about "not at all"? Do we value the lives of women so little that we don't even care about the ones that volunteered to serve our country?

Is she saying that she doesn't support our troops unless they are male and straight? And that it's expected for our male, straight troops to not have any discipline or the ability to control themselves? Because that's exactly what it sounds like to me. Some "patriotic" woman this is.

I honestly hope that we never get into a situation where our nation is invaded and those women who were "raped too much" have to defend her from getting "raped too much" or killed. You just can't help ignorance like that, and any person that would agree with her - that it's too much money to spend on our troops because they should have expected to get raped (and our soldiers should feel justified in raping) - fundamentally lacks humanity to the point where they are empty inside.

Any person that would interview her and not denounce her for making such a horrible, demeaning and disgusting remark about our troops is just as awful as she is.

[Aerows]

41. I'm still stunned by this

"Radical Feminism" is expecting to not be raped while doing your job. I wonder if Liz would be okay if she was raped at her job? I mean, it's such radical feminism to expect not to be raped. I guess it's radical too to expect that children don't get raped by teachers, coaches, and ministers, etc. because they are in close quarters with them.

[MineralMan]

42. STFU Liz Trotta!

"The Handmaid's Tale" was fiction, you know.

[Initech]

43. WTF is fucking wrong with Fox News??

[Remember Me]

44. Well, of course

I mean, how DARE women take their vaginas out in public and expect anything less?

After all, men simply can't control themselves, so can't be asked, expected, disciplined, begged, coerced, or otherwise made to leave them alone.



Edited to add: The military could do a great deal to curb sexual assaults if they'd outlaw misogynist language during basic training and anywhere else it occurs, but esp. during basic -- calling slow or poorly performing troops popular anti-woman gender slurs, for example.

[Bosso 63]

46. So. . . the men we give rifles to can't be expected to have self restraint,

and as a result, women who are with them deserve whatever happens.

I don't even know where to start. . . . .

[Marrah_G]

47. Disgusting

she is disgusting

[LynneSin]

48. And people think it's the gays that ruin the military

At least when gay men, women don't have to worry about being raped.

[krispos42]

49. "raped too much"?

So there's an acceptable, expected level of personal rape for each woman?



If there is a Hell, I hope she's condemned to live in the world that she creates in her head.

[IrishEyes]

51. So if I'm in close proximity to men, I should expect to be raped?

I work in a company with about 60 men and 6 women. It is an engineering firm. I'm pretty sure this Fox news idiot wouldn't say that I should expect to be raped. Many women are police officers, firefighters, pilots, construction workers and engineers. I have never heard anyone say that they should expect to be raped because they work in close proximity to a lot of men. I can't believe that this woman exists. She is too stupid.

[lapislzi]

54. Be careful not to get raped too much.

It will damage your resale value.

It is your responsibility to ensure the appropriate level of rape in your working environment.

[The Genealogist]

52. Where do they FIND these people?

So the old bullshit about "women dressed like THAT are asking to be raped" is now "women going into combat are asking to be raped?"

And what the FUCK is this? "decrying more levels of bureaucracy to support women who have been "raped too much'." First of all ANY rape is too much rape. Second of all, is she bitching about "moar big gubmint" in the middle of a hateful rant that would be disgusting in ANY era of history? Ah, there we see the usual. RW pile of trash wraps complaint about "moar big gubmint" in a social issue and expects to get away with it. If the goddamned "librul mediuh" is so fucking "librul" then why aren't they condemning this extremely radical garbage on the news, every damned night?

[usregimechange]

53. I think she was referring to what the Pentagon and "feminists" should have expected but still... wow

She needs to resign her job yesterday.

[fascisthunter]

55. The Right WIng is very COmparable to the Nazis

and any other political cult that has walked this earth. These sociopaths get the time in the spot light, and honestly, it's creeping out even republican voters. These folks on FOX are sick, sick individuals...

[ohheckyeah]

56. I don't even know enough

vile words to describe this piece of shit *********. Fill that in with whatever you want.

[Citizen Worker]

57. This line of thoughtless blather may be more common than you think. A woman friend has said much

the same to me about rape. Noting that she has never been raped or mistreated in any way by men "even though I've been the only woman in a room full of men for hours at a time." She then posits that, "they must have been asking for it." By the way, she is a Faux News consumer. Surprised? I'm not.

[demmiblue]

58. My thoughts: The first thing I thought when I read/viewed this was of Col. Janis Karpinski.

A good link here: http://www.alternet.org/world/31584/

What I think Trotta wants us to believe is that it is the fault of feminists that this happens. Because, ya know, some women (feminist identifiers or not) want to serve their country, but just can't handle the the repercussions. And, naturally, rape is something that could possibly be expected in those close quarters. Besides, it costs the US a bundle to set up networks in order to counsel victims of sexual assault. These VICTIMS are costing us money!

Here is a thought, spend an equal amount of money to prevent such assaults. And when they do happen, make the repercussions severe. Extremely severe.

[riderinthestorm]

59. Disgusting, despicable and yet oh so predictable from the ignorati. nt