Calling all feminists - Say something!

Ok, so I just checked the official website of the National Organization for Women. Not a word about the Elliott Spitzer sex scandal and resignation. The lead story of their “Hot Topics” news section is a week old fluff piece about Hillary Clinton’s primary wins in Ohio and Texas.

And I guess we won’t be hearing from, Marcia Pappas, the President of the New York Chapter of NOW either. She’s the one I recently wrote about who immediately and fiercely jumped on Senator Ted Kennedy for endorsing Barack Obama for President. By denying Hillary the nod, Marcia declared, Teddy K. had committed the “ultimate betrayal” of all women. Funny, Marcia didn’t seem to remember the Massachusetts senator walking away from a sinking car in a place called Chappaquiddick as a more important “betrayal” of a woman – but I digress.

It’s as if these feminists don’t think the Spitzer issue affects women!

Feminists proudly declare that they are fighting for women’s equality and improving the status of women. Really? Then prove it – come out and say something about a hypocritical public servant who for at least ten years and 80 thousand dollars helped denigrate young women not much older than his own three daughters!

Gloria? Jane? Hillary? Somebody?

Anybody there to speak up for subjugated young women who can’t see any other way in life except the one that demeans them into a career on their knees or flat on their back?

Let’s be honest. The reason we aren’t hearing from the feminists is because most of them belong to the same political party as the now disgraced Governor. They’ve chosen to be silent lest they upset someone in Democratic Party land. If I’m wrong about this – then prove me wrong – say something against men like this who cheapen, defile and criminalize our girls.

I’m the mother of a daughter and I’m sickened that young women in this day and age would still be choosing this degrading and oftentimes violent way of life. I have never thought that a woman selling her body for sex is a “victimless” crime. The woman will pay for it. Either physically, when some client’s desires venture into the dark side or later when she realizes she can’t cope with the leftover psychological scars.

If feminists aren’t there to help mentor these young women who will be?

Late last year a bill went into effect in New York – ironically signed into law by none other than Governor Elliot Mess himself – that increased the penalty for patronizing a prostitute from a mere misdemeanor and three months in jail to up to a year in jail.

When he signed it he likened organized prostitution to human trafficking and “modern-day slavery.” He was absolutely right in that assessment. Yet as he put pen to paper he apparently was holding on to a deep dark secret. As a gung-ho prosecutor, as the Attorney General of the nation’s largest state, as Governor of that state he himself was part of the problem. And if the reports are true he corrupted young girls into servicing him in at least three places: New York, Washington, D.C. and Florida.

Oh, maybe “Client #9” (as the federal indictment refers to him) didn’t think he was doing anything thing wrong because he was paying large sums of money to these girls. Maybe he just wanted to see if he could get away with it. Maybe he became drunk with the power of his office – after all this is a man who once warned his political adversaries that he was a “f—king steamroller”. Maybe he thought he was simply above the laws he enforced on others.

You know what? I don’t really care about this creep. I hope they throw the book at him. I care about the legions of girls, both here and worldwide, who are forced to earn money this way. I care that there is no unified voice out there to help them realize it’s no way to live their lives and that there is escape down a path that’s more rewarding and satisfying.

Helllllloooo? Any feminists listening? I thought your creed was to help improve the lives of women. Hypocrisy comes in both sexes.