Pure lies (inaugural pissed off post edition)

I’m sorry, I know I’ve already posted about the wacko responses to my book (excuse me, my book cover), but I just came across this and I just couldn’t help myself.
Ericka Andersen at LadyBlog has written a post that has brought intellectual dishonesty to a new low. She even starts off lying:

For some thought-provoking reading, check out Jessica Valenti’s “The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women.” Cassy Fiano’s post on the book today lead me to check it out for myself.

Thought-provoking reading…really? You checked it out for yourself, did you? May I ask how? Because the book isn’t going to be released for another five months. So, Ms. Andersen, if you’ve somehow stealthily broken into my apartment or hacked into my computer, I’d really like to know.

I grew up in a Christian environment where sex before marriage was frowned upon but never was the act of sex condemned. I was never told women don’t like sex as much as men or that we were supposed to use it to get husbands. I doubt Jessica has really been in the midst of this environment but as someone who has, I can tell you women and men were both encouraged to be disciplined in their sexual urges. And…I’ve never once heard a church leader say you were a slut or a whore if you did choose to have sex. This is an assumption Jessica makes. (Emphasis mine)

Right, I make a whole book full of assumptions. Women are never ever told they’re sluts or sullied or or less than or diseased if they have sex. I must be making stuff up!
But here’s the part that had me screaming to my poor boyfriend about what fucking liars people are.

The real purity myth is what Jessica is telling women: that sexual consequences be damned as long as you feel good. God forbid you have guilt. Girls Gone Wild is better for young women that purity rings, she claims, but I doubt many people would sign up for that argument.

Sexual consequences be damned? I’ve spent my entire writing and feminist career advocating for young women to have medically accurate and unbiased information about sex so they can make the decisions that are best for them. I have never, never, said that Girls Gone Wild is anything but a fucked up organization run by a rapist. For people like Fiano and Andersen to warp – and just lie! – about this work that I do, it’s just beyond disgusting. I understand that they have no actual argument to make (being that, you know, they haven’t read the book), but simply making stuff up to suit their theories is not only dishonest, it’s stupid. Because I’m not going to sit quietly and let people lie about me, about feminism, about this blog, or about The Purity Myth. Every time someone publishes some bullshit like this, I’m going to call it out. Welcome to my new post series, Pure Lies.
So bring it, assholes.