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I generally enjoy his show even though he often has guests on that I don't agree with, however Christina Hoff Sommers is one of the most odious guests he has had on in a long time. Joe Walsh was a breath of fresh air compared to her.
She tries to portray herself as a liberal and a feminist, however she is anything but. She is aligned with the American Enterprise Institute which is "officially" non-partisan, however is closely associated with conservative and neo-conservative ideals. You can tell by listening to her that she is an absolute fruitcake and hostile toward women and feminists.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has declared "The Factual Feminist" as an enabler of Male Supremacy and supporter of the MRA movement. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/08/christina-hoff-sommers-cant-take-single-line-criticism
She has also joined ranks with Milo Yiannopoulous to "defend freedom" on various campuses and is outwardly hostile toward the #metoo movement. She is nothing more than a female misogynist. Her whining about being protested on college campuses and how people needed "safe spaces" on this show was disingenous and absurd.
From the SPLC article:
"The claim made in the SPLC profile is narrower than Sommers’ reformulation. Sommers has written a book on the “war against boys” and has insisted that reported rates of rape and sexual abuse are exaggerated. These arguments undeniably “overlap” with MRA concerns. As Alex DiBranco at Political Research Associates points out, “claiming rampant false accusations of rape and violence is one of the most prevalent men’s rights and equity feminist talking points.” And further: “Equity feminism’s depiction of women as liars with ‘victim mentalities’ dovetails alarmingly with (and legitimizes) the online manifestation of the men’s rights movement, which uses more virulent and hateful rhetoric to convey the same argument.” The only label the SPLC gave Sommers, “equity feminist,” is one she embraces.
But what’s odd about Sommers’ grandstanding is her history with the MRA movement and the direct praise she’s received from its ranks. Sommers was a prominent apologist of a vicious, far-reaching misogynistic online campaign that fed directly into both the Male Supremacy movement and what would ultimately become the alt-right. Sommers, using her perch at one of the wealthiest and most powerful policy organizations in the country, defended Gamergate.
Gamergate was a years-long saga where male gamers systematically harassed female game developers and journalists with doxing, stalking and rape and death threats. Some of these women were targeted because they dared to be critical of the male-dominated space, others were attacked only for trying to exist within it. But to Sommers, the harassers were “just defending a hobby they love.”
This advocacy (Sommers dedicated at least one episode of “Factual Feminist” to defending the gamers) earned her the praise of many in the MRA movement. It also inspired some bizarre fan art and even a nickname, “Based Mom,” which Sommers enthusiastically embraced.
During the days of Gamergate, Sommers also made common cause with Milo Yiannopolous, appearing at several events with the former Breitbart News tech editor who rose to fame fanning the flames of harassment. Yiannopolous, last seen hocking milk thistle extract on an InfoWars broadcast, was exposed as a white nationalist enabler and bigoted bully who did very little of his own writing. But for a time, he was a hot commodity and a Sommers ally in the war against “political correctness” on college campuses and feminism, which Yiannopolous enjoyed likening to cancer. In the case of Yiannopolous, it appears the much derided campus protesters were a better judge of character and politics than Sommers."
Fuck Bill for having this disgusting woman on his show! I haven't been this pissed at him EVER!
Anyway, not mad at you at all for posting, just disgusted with him for having her on the show. His misogyny is showing. 
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