It is obvious at this point (actually, it has been obvious for a long time) that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not only a misogynist, but also a person who commits sex crimes. It is also obvious that that is okay with a lot of people in California, okay with the Republican "family values" Party, and okay with the likes of Chris Matthews and his talking head android counterparts.

It should also be obvious that it is also okay with Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver. Just how complicit Shriver is, however, becomes apparent when we look at a revolting piece of internalized gender-hating, revealed by the NBC journalist during an interview she did with Karen Pomer, a rape survivor and a leading advocate for rape survivors in California.

Pomer was interviewed by Shriver for the program,
Dateline. When the interview was over, Shriver said, matter-of-factly to Pomer "If I had been raped, my husband would leave me because, after all, I would be damaged goods."

According to Pomer, a stunned silence went over the room after Shriver made this revelation. We know, of course, that a woman who lives with a sexual abuser is not a woman with much self-respect, but it is still chilling to hear this story, and to know that there are still women in America who believe such utter, evil nonsense.