In Orwell's 1984, one of the scenes involves Hate Moments. That is when everyone stops their work and hates whoever Big Brother says to hate. As the hated figure gives some impassioned speech denouncing Big Brother, the workers get into a frenzy which grows ever more hateful and vicious. Finally, when it is time to get back to work, the scene fades to black and the calm, ever-reassuring picture of Big Brother crops up.
In the circles of police state apologists, there are Hate Weeks, where the people thou shalt hate because the Very Important People (TM) said to are attacked and vilified. Recently, it was Iran and the Big Bad Ayatollah. Next week, it might be immigrants. This week, right-wing trolls have taken to Twitter and hijacked at least two feminist conferences with sexist and hateful slurs telling women to go back into the kitchen.
One such conference is the NUS Women's Conference of 2015 that was recently held in West Midlands, UK. It was not big enough to attract any attention. But the way that it was hijacked by followers of Rush Limbaugh brought my attention to it. I never would have found out about it if Rush's followers had not hijacked it to the point where it trended on Twitter. This reveals nothing about these feminists and everything about the psychology of the people hating on them.
One of the things that got attention was something called "jazz hands" instead of conventional clapping. Another thing was the passage of a ban on drag.
Do I agree with everything that is passed/proposed at these conferences? No. But I have been in radical feminist settings before, and acting around them in my personal experience is simply a matter of common sense. Acting like mother or grandmother told you to when you were a kid will solve 99% of potential problems. The one thing I found different is that they are more vocal about setting boundaries. We all have boundaries. Many times, people are too nice to tell you when you've breached their boundaries. But most feminists in my experience will tell you when you're making them uncomfortable. And I don't have a problem with that at all. Thus the phobia that Rush and his followers are trying to whip up over a grand conspiracy to set all these minute rules over what we can be offended over is blown clear out of proportion.
The thing that we should be much more worried about is certain people such as Bibi or the 47 Horsemen trying to start World War III over Iran or Victoria Nuland trying to start a nuclear confrontation with Russia over Ukraine. The thing that the Neocons and certain Rush followers who have nothing more important to do with their spare times than crash some feminist conference in West Midlands (UK) on Twitter is that they both believe that might makes right. That easily translates into the notion that some are born to rule and others to serve. Nowhere is this taught either in the Bible that Rev. Ted Cruz claims to follow or the Constitution or Declaration of Independence.
The fact that Rush's followers can feel so threatened over a conference that is not even in the US shows the path to victory in 2016 -- push for universal employment and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. The last thing they want is strong women pushing for their rights as well as men who are not afraid of a strong woman mobilizing to exercise their god-given rights.