Posted by Amanda Marcotte January 10, 2008 in Religion, Conservatives Sure Are Funny, Assholes
On one hand, I feel proud to have made the list of top seven “Christian-bashers” of 2007, especially considering that the remarks in question were made in 2006. On the other hand, could it have hurt them to use my actual name, instead of a job title I held for a couple of weeks, due to the easily pseudo-hurt feelings of people who’d like to oppress women without meeting any resistance? It’s not that hard to spell.
So what designer should I ask to lend me a dress for the awards ceremony?
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Prada! It’s where the pope shops.
Ask these folks. They’d make the perfect entourage for the event!
As I recall, Melissa McEwan didn’t say anything especially offensive on her blog. She was merely the victim of blow back from the “scandal” involving your posts on Catholicism. I guess all women look alike to these idiots.
You’re right to be proud of your inclusion on that list. I hope to be there myself, someday.
aw, they left out the really good Hitchens quote about Falwell….about him being so full of shit that if you gave him an enema you could bury him in a match box.
Be careful Amanda, these guys mean business.
“They posed the thoughtful question of religious conservatives, “What don’t you lousy %#*@!+# understand about keeping your noses out of our britches, our beds and our families?”"
And what’s wrong with that question?
The attitude that there is no area of human existence, especially related to our naughty bits, that is off limits to government and religious control, is at the heart of why fundamentalism is so scary.
A founding principle of the American republic was the idea of “Leave me the hell alone”. When did that critical component of real freedom get replaced with “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”…?
Jeff, I clicked on your link, but for me it sounds like “The Chipmunks”…
Odd, it works for me.
this better?
PZ Myers is gonna be pissed.
What was Fred McLeod Wilcox like to work with? I heard he was a (makes drinky-drink hand mation).
I’m still disappointed that my extensive list of blasphemies didn’t qualify me for shit, but then again, the only official position I held was to keep Gravel stocked with ether-soaked rags.
Jeff, I’m sure it’s just me. Don’t sweat it…
Go with Chris March from this season’s Project Runway. Underappreciated, beautiful dresses, neat sense of humor, and he would drive the sanctimonious set crazy.
I’m surprised they didn’t mention Ned Flanders of “The Simpsons.” Maybe he appeared on previous years’ lists.
Oh well. Best line in it: “Hawkings’ body will be returned to his family once the devil is cast out of his talking wheelchair.”
MAJeff and Scott….
They’d have got to Hitchens and PZ but they ran out of digits at seven.
Yeah, they should’ve given you both your proper names.
Why? Because it’s a fucking badge of honor, that’s why.
Oh, and I know this has already been mentioned, but must echo this sentiment:
You are so much a bigger person that I am, Amanda. Your continued support of Edwards is admirable. I know if I had been in your shoes- well, I’d have trouble voicing support for him.
Hitchens was included in the “Jerry Falwell’s death” category. I think the quote I mentioned was the one they were loathe to.
“Hawkings’ body will be returned to his family once the devil is cast out of his talking wheelchair.”
If it happened in real life, they would throw Hawking into a pond to see if he floats.
The hungry maw of Gilead awaits us all…
I’m so proud to know someone who is comparable in scope to the Colorado Church murders AND a federal hate crime bill.
When am I going to learn not to clink on those links to WND? One of these days my eyes are going to roll right out of my head.
/rolls eyes
Ouch!
Amanda, you and Melissa were named my two best people of 2007.
Looking at your poster here. I actually kind of want to see this movie now!
“…could it have hurt them to use my actual name, instead of a job title I held for a couple of weeks, due to the easily pseudo-hurt feelings of people who’d like to oppress women without meeting any resistance?”
I can’t parse that sentence: “due to”??
Surely, you’ll be boycotting the awards ceremony if the writer’s strike is still on.
Having read the list, I must say that the quality of qualification for “Christian bashing” has gone sadly downhill over recent decades.
They’d have got to Hitchens and PZ but they ran out of digits at seven.
Really? They’re that inbred?
What I love for some reason, “Golden Compass, the movie” like it was Golden Compass: The Movie, even though I know it was a book I can’t help but snicker.
And Evangelical christians are pissed off at people questioning their beliefs? I’m shocked. SHOCKED I tell you.
Congrats, Amanda. Will you be sharing your acceptance speech with us? Surely you have one, unless this does come as a total surprise to you;)
I want that poster!
I have no idea on any suggestions for designer to wear to the ceremony. I just ask that you choose one who actually likes women. Unfortunately, so many of them seem to hate women with the monstrosities they put women into.
Having read the list, I must say that the quality of qualification for “Christian bashing” has gone sadly downhill over recent decades.
Seconded. Not one measly lion and only one half-assed, self-described Crowlian! What’s the world coming to when you can’t even rustle up a satanic mob or one bloody orgy gone awry?
Personally, I’d say that a year in which The Golden Compass constituted one of the top seven instances of Christian-bashing would have to count as a pretty good one. I mean, really.
Church shootings and disruptions of worhip services certainly count.
But a movie? Please.
I remain more than a little unsympathetic while they try to rewrite the Constitution to permanently eliminate many of my basic civil liberties, but they are brutally forced to boycott a movie.
And pot, meet kettle with regards treating your enemies as stereotypes. When was the last time you heard one of these wingnuts speak of gay people (or straight women) in a way that remotely resembled actual human beings?
For the awards ceremony I suggest you wear a nun’s habit.
I’m fairly certain the WND doesn’t hire union writers, zuzu, and it shows in their quality.
Look, if you’re going to be labeled a Christian basher, I think it’s well past time you got serious about it. Round you up some lions, put them in an arena, and play Roman empress. If your part of Texas is short on lions, substitute whatever vicious carnivore you happen to have handy.
Libdevil; Texas? The only vicious carnivores there are wolves, which are endangered, and…well, fundamentalists.
Late to the party, but I just wanted to say that you are totally my hero. I, too, hope to one day offend all of Christendom.
Hey, you came in ahead of The Golden Compass. That’s pretty neat.
Bloggrrl? Weren’t you nearing or over 30 at the time?
…and that would be two heads more than what they’ll like attached to a uterus.
….that brings up a disturbing imagery, but from browsing through crime library, I swear, there were not one, but at least two serial killers who had fucked the headless corpses of their victims.
If your part of Texas is short on lions, substitute whatever vicious carnivore you happen to have handy.
Whee! The javelinas vs. the Southern Baptists! You could make some seriously good money setting wild pigs on Bible-thumpers for entertainment in Texas.
Whee! The javelinas vs. the Southern Baptists! You could make some seriously good money setting wild pigs on Bible-thumpers for entertainment in Texas
Who was it Molly Ivins was quoting when she said, “The problem with Texas Baptists is that we don’t hold ‘em under water long enough?”
Whee! The javelinas vs. the Southern Baptists! You could make some seriously good money setting wild pigs on Bible-thumpers for entertainment in Texas
Wouldn’t it be confusing for the betting though?
Just say you’re betting on the boars. Then you collect either way.
you should skip the designers and go dressed up as mary, only the naughty halloween version of mary. they would love it.
Congrats on the recognition of your great genius and power.
Don’t know about the designer, but clearly your official photog clearly has to be the re-animated (or conjured from Hell) Helmut Newton.
(To the Xtianists, he’d be a 2-fer: Jewish and a deviated prevert. Then again, to that crew, those are pretty much one and the same anyway.)
Amanda, you’re just bragging.
Ahahahaha! Well, we all know what they say… we wouldn’t think well of ourselves if certain people DIDN’T dislike us. I say congrats. Congrats to both of you!
Also amused but not surprised that the hate crimes bill made it onto the list.
Thanks for postin’ this. Gave me a much needed laugh on a tough workday. TFIF indeed.
Beats me - something with disco balls and spaghetti monsters - disco ball earrings, spaghetti dress?
The poster is brilliant! You can be proud.
Alternately, you can go to your local sf-con geek and have he/she/it design a two-headed suit for the event.
Amanda no, no designer! No dress!
The only appropriate wear for a man-hating libhomo feminazi (the xtian-bashing is mere window dressing) is anything rough and woodsy from LL Bean. Say, something in flannel, denim, and big honkin’ boots.
Oh come on, be nice to the poor javelinas. Maybe the game hunters want to think they’re dangerous, but I’ve encountered bands of them in the wild and they were completely polite. We crowded through a fence gap with a bunch of them and none even stepped on my toes.
Now, if you have any Eurasian feral hogs, i.e. razorbacks, that’s who you’d want in the martyrabbatoir. WOOO-EEEE. Go Hawgs!