Charming arguments from the moral

Feministing looks at a new article from Peter...not Christopher...Hitchens. I learned about him thanks to a discourse between the 2 brothers (P and C are siblings) that Reasonable Doubts podcast covered. It is interesting. Chris is the godless one, more liberal on social politics and more conservative about defense and foreign policy. Peter is a very religious and moral fellow who is more a liberal on foreign policy and antiwar, but a social conservative.

I find this interesting to note as many skeptics and atheist tend to forget for long spells what an ass Chrissy is about Iraq and war in the Mid East. But, in turn, I can see many liberals and progressives loving that his own brother is less in love with his ideas. But to remind you of what you often get with social conservatives, antiwar or not...

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Peter Hitchens (yes, they're related) writes that a rape victim that was drunk "deserves less sympathy.

Wait, it gets worse. As Melissa at Shakesville points out, Hitchens makes flat out false statements like "women who get drunk are more likely to be raped than women who do not get drunk," and that rape is "the inevitable result of the collapse of sexual morality." (You know, because rape never happened before free love, per-marital sex, feminism, etc)

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Lovely. Rape is the outcome of the...collapse of sexual morality? What does that mean? You mean we don't live the way you tell us to and rape happens? Has this guy ever read the bible? ...Oh wait, of course he has. What an asshole.

You sir, have the moral high ground indeed.

Feministing reminds readers:

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Hitchens can't seem to get his head around the idea that rapists rape women, rather than women magically "getting themselves" raped. There's so much more to say, but really, it's impossible to unpack all of the idiocy in this article (including the charming accompanying art above). So I'll leave that you, lovely readers, in comments.

It all just reminds you of how while the two brothers are different they have a lot in common...such as when the are wrong they manage to accomplish it while being raging asses.

Family trait?