Ann Coulter meets the lizard man
Ann Coulter was in the news last week for making the following statement while plugging her latest asinine book:
If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it’s the party of women and ‘We’ll pay for health care and tuition and day care — and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?’
Ann Coulter is a circus act; we all know that. She’d balance a beach ball on her nose if she thought it would sell books. And so the perennial problem is whether to ignore her (because, for chrissake, she’s just doing this for the attention) or to denounce her. The temptation to denounce is strong, if for no other reason than to point out that she is the id of the modern conservative movement; the fear and hatred she articulates is what’s driving that bus. The mainstream media plays the role of enabler, tolerating the hate speech, rewarding it, giving it the imprimatur of respectability. And so the poison seeps and spreads and pollutes everything. Not that pointing any of that out ever seems to change anything.
Coulter’s opinion on women’s suffrage isn’t new. She’s been saying it for years, and it’s never stopped the TV people from inviting her onto their shows (Chris Matthews, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, etc.). But then, nothing stops them from inviting her onto their shows. This is the woman who wrote:
I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.
That’s just one choice quote among many; I’m sure you each have your own favorites.
I don’t know if Ann Coulter believes anything she says, but it doesn’t matter. What matters is whether the people she’s talking to believe it. I’ve been nosing around on conservative websites (bog help me) and the reaction on the women’s suffrage thing is the usual misogyny/Stockholm Syndrome psychosexual clusterfuck:
Men: Well, she shouldn’t have said it, but of course she’s right. Sorry, lay-dees.
Women: Ann is so pretty and smart and right about everything 99% of the time, but I do kind of disagree with her just a tiny bit on this one little thing.
Other women: No, she’s right. We’re intelligent, but most women are stupid twats. Better for none of us to have the vote.
Men: If only all chicks were as cool as you!
But the most interesting reaction, at least to me, is this one from the Catholic Pillow Fight:
I agree… This sort of dovetails with a fabulous article via Et Tu?. This is a transcript of a speech by Roy F. Baumeister entitled “Is There Anything Good About Men?”
Baumeister! Remember him? He’s the misogynist freak at the APA convention who thinks women are lizards!
The Catholic Pillow continues:
And the problem with women voting is that they are taking the skills and motivations appropriate to the narrow sphere of intimate relationships and trying to apply it to the much borader [sic] arena of national politics….The “mommy state” is unworkable. It hasn’t worked in the Soviet Union, it is not working in Scandanavia [sic] or Europe, and it hasn’t worked for almost 50 years here.
It’s time to get back to the “daddy state” (“male pattern”) as is was designed when the Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Grab a beverage of choice and read Mr. Baumeister’s speech from top to bottom. Read it slowly, try not to let your knee jerk. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
Misogyny is an actual hobby for these people, isn’t it? It’s not just a point of view or a deep-seated prejudice; it’s something they take time to savor and enjoy. Stretch out in your Barcalounger, pop a cold one, and spend some quality time thinking about how stupid women are.
4 Responses to “Ann Coulter meets the lizard man”
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Pippa says:
Baumeister is a joke. The APA ought to be grovelling in apology for giving him a platform from which to spew his ignorance. His arguments in “Is there anything good about men?” are weak, illogical and tired. It would be funny if it were not so utterly frightening.
October 8th, 2007 at 6:43 am EST -
Soren says:
What – our government (in Denmark) is not working. Why haven’t I been told?
Jesus they are wankers
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The Ghost of Violet says:
Poor Soren; maybe we can arrange an exit visa for you to a daddy state. Iran? Saudi Arabia?
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Just Another Teenage Feminsit says:
At first I thought it was some kind of sick joke. Wow. Just wow. It just goes back to men thinking their opinions are worth more than ours. What the women on that conservative blog said disturbs me as I once believed it (briefly). Men will tell us that women have certain “negative” attributes and then when we are offended they will say our individual circumstances are different. Way to divide and conquer.
