Agatha Christie never spun a mystery as perplexing as that of white liberal women going all in on protecting criminal illegal immigrants. Screaming, screeching, blowing whistles, cursing like sailors with Tourette’s who just hit their thumb with a hot hammer.
The other day, a poor Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent tried to explain to horn-honking protesters, “We’re here to arrest a child sex offender. … That’s who you guys are protecting.” He may as well have been speaking Sanskrit.
“Insane,” he said, as he drove away.
Insanity? If not, close enough to be its doppelganger.
Theories abound. Perhaps it’s the middle-age equivalent of dating the “bad boy” in high school. Except, we’re not seeing any indication that the women blocking ICE from its noble work have any interest in transforming the killers, rapists, and traffickers they’re protecting.
Perhaps it is, as some have speculated, a generation of women who have been taught to discount the value of motherhood, and their hardwired instinct for nurturing and protecting has been short-circuited in the service of the criminals. Think of Renee Good leaving her own child behind before trying to turn an ICE agent into a speedbump.
Except mothers are bringing their children to the protests, sincerely believing it’s good for their budding Zohrans to witness Mommy standing up to the Gestapo.
Perhaps noted feminist Naomi Wolf hit the mark with her theory that the lashing out stems from sexual frustration, that the aggression toward ICE officers is a physical release. Yes, it’s clear from their unhinged antics why most of those women wouldn’t be getting any action. Hunter Biden would turn down those women even if they were wearing parkas packed with cocaine.
Ultimately, we could be seeing what we’re seeing because men didn’t see the signs of the coming white liberal women apocalypse and try to nip it in the bud—be it through love, or prayer, or galloping through the countryside warning, “The women are coming! The women are coming!”
I’ll be the first to apologize.
Around 2020, a strange thing happened. In short order, three women who’d been important in my life—three wonderful, intelligent, women—got uncharacteristically, disproportionately, perplexingly irate at me over politics.
My college girlfriend, who I’ve known since I was 12, never got mad at me back when I deserved it. If temperament were a city, she’d be San Diego. But one day, she snapped at me like a starving crocodile for defending Rush Limbaugh’s Presidential Medal of Freedom. Shocking? Like Rep. Ilhan Omar applying for membership to Mar-a-Lago.
Then there’s my former colleague, partner, and office mate. We worked side by side for years, with a closeness, chemistry, and intimacy that had people assuming we were hitched. Never an argument. Twenty years later, we reconnected on Twitter. Within 10 minutes, she was going full Joy Reid on me over politics. (OK, maybe not full Joy Reid. Never go full Joy Reid.)
Strangest of all, a woman I briefly dated in the mid-90s, and had not had any contact with since, tracked me down after coming across an article I’d written. Not to say, “Hi, how’s it going?” But: “Is this the same Al Perrotta who used to live in Southern California? You used to be so tolerant!”
“I hope it’s me,” I replied. “I’m using his driver’s license.”
Helpful Guy Hint: When you’re getting chopped down by childhood friends, smacked around by professional soulmates, and harassed out of the blue by sensitive, gracious clairvoyant poets, it’s wise to ask, “What gives?”
But I missed it, males missed it, and conservatives missed it. The anger festered during the Biden years, turned into rage with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. And the reelection of Donald Trump, King of the Alphas? Like hitting the nucleus of Uranium-235 with a neuron.
And Ground Zero, at the moment, is Minneapolis.
It’s fair to ask how these women would react if Trump had embraced the criminal illegal immigrants, the rapists, and sex traffickers. If he’d been the one sipping margaritas with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. One suspects they’d be screaming just as loud at Trump for increasing their peril because of his “hatred of women.”
So perhaps it’s not about ICE agents and illegal aliens, after all. Or Venezuela. Or the Department of Government Efficiency. Or whatever will be on the pre-printed signs next week.
Then what is this about?
Perhaps at its core the women are suffering PTSD. The psychic injury from the Sexual Revolution indoctrination, the radical mutation of the women’s rights movement, the desecration of motherhood at the altar of “abortion rights,” even the transgender usurpation of what it means to be a woman.
White, liberal women have been told, “You’ve come a long way, baby.”
“Yeah,” they replied. Looked around, and asked, “But where am I?”
I think I’d be lashing out too.
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