LIBBY EMMONS: Elissa Slotkin absurdly blames sexism for critics of her comments against young conservatives

Senator Elissa Slotkin spoke at the University of Chicago and during her interview, she said she wants to go after the people who support Trump and are working within his administration with a goal of preventing young people from taking jobs in the White House under this president. As if those comments weren't audacious enough, she accused her critics of sexism.

When Slotkin was called out on it, she claimed she was being attacked for being a woman. The notion that it was her femaleness that got people talking, and not her quest to prosecute people for having jobs and preventing college grads from seeking work in the White House, is absurd.

It's "not just Trump, right?" She said at the University of Chicago. "Because of course there will be moments of like, let's go after Trump himself, as someone who voted to impeach him twice, like he's still there, right? But the people around Donald Trump who are doing his bidding and enabling this have no such immunity... And to me, he couldn't do any of this stuff without all those peoplesaluting and supporting it. So you go after the people who did his bidding."

Then she got into what she meant by that. "I want young people coming out of school to say 'Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.' I want them to be like 'Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don't want, and so let me avoid participating in that. I want that deterrence message sent."

Her remarks show the accuracy of Trump saying: "In reality, they're not after me, they're after you, I'm just in the way." Turns out he was right.

There was backlash, as their should have been, because it's absolutely insane for a senator to say that she wants to prosecute White House staffers to prevent the White House from being able to hire talented, conservative staffers. In response, she claimed it was because she was a woman that people were coming for her.

"I do think there's something about being a woman," she said, "and criticizing them and calling them out on that corruption that really gets under their skin, obviously, or they wouldn't respond. You know, 'remember the Second Amendment, sweetheart,' or all that crap.

"But I think it's more that it's not speaking to them, it's speaking to the people who are potentially going to be asked to follow illegal requests, right? It's speaking directly to the people who are on the receiving end of this administration."

The women's rights movement has come so far that women not only have achieved equality under the law they have more carveouts and protections than men. Time and time again, women demand that they be treated not fairly, but with extra benefits.

Take for example two recent cases that have been making headlines: child-killer Lindsay Clancy and Jane Doe's allegations against 7 Cornell fraternity brothers. In the Clancy case, her supporters demanded that she be found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. They claimed that life was too hard for this mother of three, so hard, in fact, that it was justifiable that she killed her children.

In the Jane Doe case, her advocates take to the streets and literally scream as they claim that she was not able to consent to freaky sex with the frat boys because she was drunk, saying outright that though she voluntarily became intoxicated then voluntarily engaged in sex acts, she should not be held responsible for her actions and the men should be. They were drunk too, but for Jane Doe's supporters, that doesn't matter.

The women insist on full rights but not full consequences, but there can be no equality without accepting the results of your own actions.

Slotkin, who wants to hold people accountable just for supporting the duly elected President of the United States, should know that better than anyone. But instead of owning up to what she said, she blames those who are trying to hold her accountable of misogyny.

It's an absolutely marvelous testament to the state of feminism today. Slotkin is happy to spout off on whatever topic she wants while on stage at the University of Chicago, but when she's asked to address her critics, all she can do is point fingers back at them and make false accusations. If she can't own her comments and defend them on their own merits, perhaps she has no business making them at all.

This originally appeared in Libby Emmons' newsletter.