Ashley Judd Is Still Freaking Out About Being Called Sweetheart.

Oh, for crying out loud.

Hey Fox News: Harassment Isn’t a Compliment https://t.co/9y4rm42X6x

— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) August 27, 2017

The link in Ashley’s self-congratulatory tweet goes to the uber-radical website Feministing, and specifically to an article defending Ashley Judd’s hissy fit at the airport a couple weeks back. If you missed that, you have to see it.

Anyway, Ashley and her hyperreactive feminist pals at Feministing are still bitching about compliments.  Here are just a few morsels of their insanity:

Right-wing media is losing its collective shit this week because actor and feminist Ashley Judd spoke out about a sexist incident at the airport. Last week, Judd posted a Facebook live video from the airport, sharing an experience of what she calls “everyday sexism.” As she was going through security, Judd explained, an airport employee touched her unnecessarily — after she had already told him off for calling her “sweetheart.” Sure sounds a lot like sexist street harassment to me.

First of all, it’s telling that Ashley never specified in what manner she was “touched” by the gentleman who had the audacity to call her a term of endearment and tell her she had a nice dress on.  And because she didn’t specify, I think it’s quite safe to assume he brushed her arm or otherwise innocuously made some sort of totally innocent contact with her.  Otherwise, I can assure you she’d be delighted to share the way in which she was TOTALLY MOLESTED by him.

So no.  It wasn’t “street harassment.”  It was what used to be considered a normal human interaction before rabid feminist hags started trying to change the rules.

It’s the kind of demeaning, sexualized interaction that women face every day, when strangers feel free to shout at us and touch us simply because we exist in an airport or on the street. As Judd pointed out, incidents like this are so routine that it’s “easy not to speak up, particularly when it’s so easy for someone to say, oh, ‘I was just being polite.’” She shared the video to call attention to precisely this kind of normalized sexism.

Yup, she sure did.  And she got rightfully excoriated for it. (If you missed my favorite parody video of her airport tantrum, you have to see this.)  This wasn’t a cat call.  This wasn’t some skeevy dude whistling at her or trying to pick her up.  This was an airport security worker trying to be nice.  And he’ll likely never make that “mistake” again, thanks to Ashley’s hysteria.

Then she got on her plane — and right-wing media discovered her video. Anti-feminist media personalities were quick to jump on her, mock her, and trot out all the age-old defenses for gross sexist behavior. On Fox, right-wing radio personality Dana Loesch hit the “dismissing street harassment” trifecta, claiming: it’s a “compliment,” “chivalry is under attack by third-wave feminism,” and “there’s no sexism here… if she thinks she has it hard she should ask women in Saudi Arabia.” (A reminder: Loesch is best known for starring in that terrifying NRA ad urging viewers to buy guns to defend white supremacy).

OMG.  That whole rip on Loesch’s NRA ad is so over-the-top it’s not even worth responding to. “Terrifying” ads “urging viewers to buy guns to DEFEND WHITE SUPREMACY?” Yeah.  Looking forward to Feministing trying to explain what Loesch said to defend white supremacy.  Give me a freaking break.

Feminists have been refuting this garbage since the dawn of time, but apparently, it’s not sinking in for Loesch and friends. So for the folks in the back: Harassment is not a compliment. It’s not chivalrous. A total stranger walking up to you, touching your body, and calling you a romantic nickname, is not a compliment — it’s a belittling experience that reminds women that we’re often seen as sexual objects first, and people second. Wanna be chivalrous? Treat us with respect, not like we’re lesser beings you can talk down to. And don’t act like you’re entitled to touch our bodies simply because we’re women with the audacity to exist in public space.

So for the harpies in the back:  This will come as a shock to you, but people don’t always see you as sexual objects.  Sometimes, they simply see you as people with whom they wish to exchange simple pleasantries and acts of kindness.  Terms of endearment and compliments are not harassment.   Noticing the effort you clearly put into your wardrobe choice does not equate to treating you as a “lesser being.”  It equates to NOTICING THE FREAKING EFFORT YOU PUT INTO YOUR WARDROBE YOU IDIOTIC HAG.

Ironically, the Right-Wing Outrage Machine is proving Judd’s point that everyday sexism is routine, excused, and normalized. Catcalls and unwanted touches are so common that these Fox hosts don’t see what’s wrong with it, and can’t imagine a world in which men and women could interact without them. (Here’s a hint: do you touch random bros on the street? No? Great, then you should be able to extend that basic courtesy to women, too.)

No one is proving Ashley’s point.  But there are a whole lot of us who are outraged at your perpetual outrage, and you’re damn right we’re going to mock you for it.  Here’s a hint:  plenty of women use terms of endearment towards men AND towards other women.  Ashley should know that, considering she’s ostensibly a southern girl.  And yes, I called her a “girl” because I know she hates it. (And she calls men “boys” all the time, because she’s a hypocritical hosebeast.)

The whole Feministing article was just the author’s way of sucking up to a has-been celebrity who needs to lay off the face fillers.  It’s nauseating.

You know what else is nauseating?  The fact that only ONE HOUR before Ashley went on her airport tirade against the worker who noticed her dress, she posted this on FB.  ONE HOUR BEFORE:

So, an hour before a security worker said, “Nice dress” to Ashley, she posted a photo of herself in it, made sure to let everyone know who dressed her, who did her makeup, who provided her jewels, and who made the hat she had on.  What POSSIBLE REASON would she have for doing that if not in the hopes that people would then REACT to her appearance?

But yeah – an hour later she was furious that someone did, and made sure he was reprimanded as a result.  And by the way, she wants you to notice her dresses A LOT.

What an insufferable seahag.