For four decades or more, feminists have urged women to speak their mind.   Ann Coulter is one of those women who took that advice.  She has spoken her mind clearly and concisely.  Feminists have always forwarded the view, correctly, that the victim should never be blamed for the victimization.  Abuse is wrong, period!  Coulter is now required to be protected by bodyguards because her outspokenness has led to her being targeted for violence. 

Where are those feminists today?

Meanwhile, the left is up in arms about the fact that Jane Fonda (otherwise known as Hanoi Jane) was spat upon by a Vietnam veteran at one of her book signings.  Nine hundred people were at the signing.  Many of them gave Fonda, a traitor to the United States of America, a standing ovation.  From the film clips it appears that more than half of those people were women.  They were outraged. 

Of course, no one should be targeted for violence.  But the inequity is clear.  Feminists are outraged about some spittle on Fonda but not about the very real threats of real violence against Coulter.  What is fair is fair.  It is time for feminists to treat women on both ends of the political continuum equitably.  In fact, it is time that feminists treated PEOPLE on both ends of the political continuum equitably.