A lot of us remember the name Elizabeth Smart. She’s the Mormon girl who, as a young child in 2002, was kidnapped in the Salt Lake City area and kept apart from her family for nine months. Everywhere you looked, you saw her painted as the victim. Problem is, she wasn’t.
She’s back in the news because one of the people convicted of kidnapping her was recently arrested for allegedly going to a park when she wasn’t allowed to be there. Of course, like a true a camera whore, Smart just had to jump back in the spotlight when she wasn’t asked to.
Look, the world may consider her a victim, but I don’t. She had the power to leave at any point, but she made the choice to not do so and for that, she should not be pitied. She had many opportunities to leave, especially when her alleged captors were asleep. Did she avail herself of those opportunities? No, she did not.
The fact that she made no effort to leave and instead chose to willingly travel with them in public while authorities searched for her shows me that, and this is just my opinion, she had no problem with being kidnapped. In fact, it’s my belief that though she didn’t ask for it per se, she wanted it based upon the fact that for nine months she was a willing participant.
If the allegations are to be believed, she had sexual relations with her male captor. If that’s the case, and it apparently is, then it’s my belief that she wanted that as well. She went along with it and seems to have made no effort to stop it. Again and again, she spread her legs, just like a good little girl.
I truly believe that she was a willing and consenting participant in everything that happened to her. The only reason that she was rescued was that someone recognized her. She made absolutely no effort to escape and notify authorities. She made no effort to put an end it it. Rather, she put herself in a literal position to have it happen again and again and again.
No, Elizabeth Smart will get no sympathy for me. When she was physically taken, she, based on the news reports of the era, went without a fuss. No physical resistance, no screaming, no nothing. Just silent consent. In other words, she asked for everything that happened to her over those nine months and as such, she is nothing even close to being a victim.
To me, that makes her a whore. Add to that her media whoring this week, and I submit to you that she’s a double whore who asked for it and then got it.