Amanda Marcotte Says Teen ‘Sexually Harassed’ Miss America, Conservatives Respond By Sexually Harassing Her

Hey, remember Patrick Farves, the 18 year-old high school senior who made national news by getting himself a 3 day (in-school) suspension for disrupting an assembly by asking Miss America to the prom? Well, feminist freelancer Amanda Marcotte decided to do God’s work and tell these kids, and/or their parents, to put an end to the embarrassing annual spectacle of pity-courting, and called the ritual “sexual harassment.” Conservatives responded by telling the ugly bitch to go masturbate herself to sleep. Or words to that effect.

If you’ve watched any TV news this week, you’ve seen the very shittily filmed viral video of Farves interrupting an assembly to ask out Miss America Nina Davuluri, or his Today Show appearance explaining how the whole thing was worth the 3-day in school suspension he deservingly received. The school had gotten wind of Farves’ plan, and had warned him not to do it. Marcotte tweeted about it, saying “I really wish people would stop acting like it’s cute when teenage boys sexually harass older women.”

When faced with a chance to war on a woman, of course conservatives took the beta-male side. Marcotte has a breakdown of some representative responses, but my personal favorite has to be the guy who told her “you must shop at Costco for batteries and cat food in bulk!” while sporting a “Dads Against Daughters Dating” logo as his Twitter avi. How proud his daughters must be of the masturbation jokes he sends young women on Twitter.

What’s amazing, though, is that the advice Marcotte gives in her followup post is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect the “don’t be a pussy” crowd to respect:

Every year around prom, there’s a “cute” story wherein a teenage boy gets himself some attention by putting a famous and beautiful celebrity he’s never met on the spot by asking her to prom, knowing full well that she would rather be at home pulling out her toenails than go on a date with some random teenage boy she’s never met. She, not wanting to look like a bitch, has to do a little song and dance of pretending to be flattered, instead of telling him to fuck the fuck off, as he royally deserves. The teenage boy is inevitably rewarded with back slaps and “go get ‘em” type encouragement. I oppose doing this, because the lesson we are teaching boys is that it’s not only acceptable to be sex pests, but that it’s downright cute. This is a bad lesson, because when he goes out into the real world and tries this routine of bugging clearly uninterested women for dates and attention—and exploiting their desire to be polite to force them to sit and listen to him while looking for a friend to rescue them—it will come across as the boorish behavior that it is.

When faced with the magic words “sexual harassment,” all of the usual conservative desire to slap the shit out of Pajama Boy evaporates in a cloud…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.