Because Daddy needs to remind the community annually that he has sex with an actual woman.
I’m deeply impressed with press secretary Dana Perino’s hiding behind the notion that men and women are so different that women can’t understand complex things like modern weapons technology, stuff that is all but written on men’s DNA. (Our caveman ancestors had Tomahawk missiles, and now the understanding of them is instinctual, not learned.)
Some of the terms I just don’t know, I haven’t grown up knowing. The type of missiles that are out there: patriots and scuds and cruise missiles and tomahawk missiles. And I think that men just by osmosis understand all of these things, and they’re things that I really have to work at — to know the difference between a carrier and a destroyer, and what it means when one of those is being launched to a certain area.
We may scoff, but she did manage to make a million male war supporters come in their pants automatically with this. Remember that the major motivating factor for many war supporters, especially those left, is this sense that they aren’t real men and someone is going to discover this any day now. So they have to wave guns, wear camouflage, rail against the feminists rejecting their manly property claims over uterine real estate through abortion, and of course support any and every war that comes along to prove that they’re real men. You couldn’t do better with this crowd than being a pretty blonde, falling all over yourself exclaiming how much more they know than you ever could because they’re so manly and have such big cocks with knowledge of names like “tomahawk” and “scud”.
I was also impressed with this. This guy, Scott Savage, is suing Ohio State for discrimination against him because he’s a wingnut. PZ has the details, including information that the guy could have a point, though it also appears he was so annoying they had to run him off. But what I found hilarious was that the guy is deeply concerned that you know that he shoots some strong sperm, to the point that he worked the information into the lawsuit.
The suit says he is a devout Christian, married for 18 years and the father of eight.
They named the first three Daddy Got It Up, Daddy Shoots Straight, and Daddy Has A Warm Cock before in-laws stepped in and pointed out that the point was made and the rest of them could have real names while still expressing the important idea that this man is very heterosexual, is able to achieve an erection and ejaculation with a woman, and is not afraid to keep her pregnant to demonstrate that fact.
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“…while still expressing the important idea that this man is very heterosexual, is able to achieve an erection and ejaculation with a woman, and is not afraid to keep her pregnant to demonstrate that fact.”
…which is such a unique ability among humans that the earth is overflowing with the 6.5 Billion of us.
But I guess as long as Scott Savage proves he owns a uterus, and makes sure it gets stretched out on a regular basis, he’s sure no one will think he’s gay so all is well…
Here’s a better link…
(Our caveman ancestors had Tomahawk missiles, and now the understanding of them is instinctual, not learned.) No no no - that would be evolution. Note she said “osmosis”, not evolution. Because magic is way less Satanic than evolution.
Dana Perino impresses me. She’s really good at her job. The fact that the job is covering the ass of a malignant mediocrity who’s getting hundreds of thousands of people killed while enriching his cronies and wrecking our country is, shall we say, unfortunate. Still, she’s on message, doesn’t get flustered, and projects a sunny banality no matter what clusterfuck or criminal malfeasance she’s defending. Tony Snow would regularly retreat into the blustery angry arrogance of a patriarch with his pants down. Not Dana - she just gives that slight sigh of worn patience and pushes the message.
Sincerity is the most important thing in a press secretary.
If you can fake that, you’ve got it made…
Is it really so difficult to figure out what the difference between a destroyer and a carrier is when it’s right in the name?
Reminds me of Baghdad Bob.
I recall a study that did DNA testing of “monogamous” species like shrikes, and found out that Mom and Dad may have been spreading their genetic heritage more widely than previously suspected…
LOL
/shush, the kids are sleeping/
/snort, giggle, giggle/
/giggle, giggle/,
LOL
“Quiet out there!”
/snort, giggle/
Okay, the feminist and the scientist got pissed off by that. Osmosis is the movement of water. How the hell can that help you understand military stuff? Besides, how hard is it to tell the difference between a carrier and a destroyer? It’s sort of in the names.
Shit. Note to self: read comments before posting. Great minds think alike?
“Dana Perino impresses me. She’s really good at her job. The fact that the job is covering the ass of a malignant mediocrity who’s getting hundreds of thousands of people killed while enriching his cronies and wrecking our country is, shall we say, unfortunate. Still, she’s on message, doesn’t get flustered, and projects a sunny banality no matter what clusterfuck or criminal malfeasance she’s defending. Tony Snow would regularly retreat into the blustery angry arrogance of a patriarch with his pants down. Not Dana - she just gives that slight sigh of worn patience and pushes the message. ”
Not:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcc0VFTp2p8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APxJyuEXjW4&feature=related
Maybe it’s just an easier role to play a brainless blond than an argumentative prick; you expend less energy, for one.
s it really so difficult to figure out what the difference between a destroyer and a carrier is when it’s right in the name?
I was kind of thinking the same thing.
but I’m male, so, yeah. I guess it might be baffling somehow, that destroyers destroy, and carriers carry (ie, planes and shit)
also, I can’t be the only person ever who feels the whole military establishment trend of naming weapons and such after AmerInd stereotypes (Tomahawk, see also Apache and Comanche choppers) kind of racist and weird.
yeah, we commit genocide, but then we name our killing weapons after you, so it’s all good?
I like her, so maybe I’m being too lenient, but I can kind of see where she’s coming from. Or, at least, where she thinks she’s coming from.
You can picture the setting when she’s briefed on military matters: her and a dozen men who grew up playing with military toys. Not because they’re male, but because they ended up going into the military and/or the government, and that seems like an overlap market.
And, because it’s one lone woman (or a very few women) and a majority of men who all know this stuff, it might kind of seem like a “men” thing instead of a “this specific group of men who grew up playing with G.I. Joe and now use the grown-up version” thing.
For a while, I sort of wanted my public officials to be astute students of history–you know, so that we aren’t doomed to repeat it.
Now, I’ve long since realized that the Republicans are intent on making us re-learn the lessons of the early 20th century (sweatshop labor, no food and drug regulations, etc), so no one there is going to cop to knowing about, say, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire or the fact that Upton Sinclair wasn’t writing fiction.
However, when Perino admitted on Wait, Wait month or so ago that she didn’t know what the Cuban missile crisis was, and that she went home and asked her husband “was that the Bay of Pigs thing?” I realized that in this administration, they demand that you don’t know anything about history in order to be their public face, because then you can quite easily spout off their talking points without the faintest hint of “we’ve been here before and it didn’t go well.”
Sorry to disuade you all about how her ignorance of the most basic terms required by her job is just a male/female thing…nope, she’s just plain rock stupid.
This is what comes from choosing people for important roles in government based solely on their position on Roe V Wade.
Perino’s ‘Missile Crisis’ Confession
Still looking for that last-minute Christmas gift for White House press secretary Dana Perino? May we recommend a gift certificate for the forthcoming book on the Cuban Missile Crisis by our colleague Michael Dobbs, “One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War,” due out next summer?
Appearing on National Public Radio’s light-hearted quiz show “Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me,” which aired over the weekend, Perino got into the spirit of things and told a story about herself that she had previously shared only in private: During a White House briefing, a reporter referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis — and she didn’t know what it was.
“I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about . . . the Cuban Missile Crisis,” said Perino, who at 35 was born about a decade after the 1962 U.S.-Soviet nuclear showdown. “It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure.”
So she consulted her best source. “I came home and I asked my husband,” she recalled. “I said, ‘Wasn’t that like the Bay of Pigs thing?’ And he said, ‘Oh, Dana.’ ”
Gah! Clones!
So, cruisers, umm cruise? and that would explain the reputation of sailors I suppose?
A carrier is five pegs long in the game Battleship, and I think a destroyer is only four pegs long. That’s all I know.
/male
There is no excuse for suggesting that men know stuff about the military by osmosis. OSMOSIS?!
There is no excuse for suggesting that men know stuff about the military by osmosis. OSMOSIS?!
See? This is one major difference between men and women. Look, water is full of military lore. Weapons, battles, important warriors. Now, men’s skulls are semi-permeable and women’s skulls aren’t. Everytime men bathe or swim, some more military knowledge is added via osmosis. How can you not know this? Oh, right, the invisible shield that women have (like whatsherbunny in Fantastic 4).
This is actually revealing of something I personally find rather disturbing: military technology and terminology is now so widespread and deeply embedded in the culture that its dissemination goes completely unnoticed.
The reason so many people, guys especially, are so familiar with military terminology is that you can’t turn on the freakin’ TV without being bombarded by it. Something I’ve been noticing recently is just how many otherwise fine BBC natural history documentaries just happen to feature incongruous appearances by military personnel and equipment. You can describe the British coastline without having to do it from the cockpit of a jet fighter. Yet for some reason, nearly every such docu made in the last few years features at least one jet fighter sequence…
Hey, if men wants people to know they can get it up, why don’t we just legalize public sex already, and they can water their lawn in the morning while nude?
…betcha Mister Eight Kids with the secret stash of viagara won’t be man enough to go natural though.
No different than the empty-headed gigglybops on Fox. Bring back Ari!!!
Oh yeah. HE at least was smart enough to walk away from this trainwreck of an administration.
OK, I was born AFTER the Cuban missile crisis and I know what it is.
I was born after World War II. Guess what? I know about that, too.
Same for WWI.
And for the Civil War. And I was definitely born way after that.
Cheezits, didn’t she go to 7th grade social studies class????? Or, you know, college?
Jake Squid: kudos on the “military contents of water” comment! LOL
I’d say Dana is definitely not hung up by any need to appear to be a smarty pants.
Pretty much, yeah. Of course, the really tricky thing is trying to figure out the difference between a cruiser, a destroyer, and a frigate. There’s probably some fancy gender reason why there’s no rhyme or reason to the classification, no doubt having to do with women getting in the military and causing everything to go wrong.
That’s because Dana Perino is a woman, and consequently (whether through nature, training, or some combination of the two) makes a better servitor.* Tony Snow’s problem was that, as a man, he was supposed to have a mind, a soul, and ideas of his own, and that, even though he wasn’t really overburdened with any of those, he found himself obliged to act the part of a dude half-bent beneath a heavy mental & moral load. Hence the blustery angry truculence. Tony Snow was no shoe-in for the rôle with which he’d been saddled, and he chafed beneath the restrictions it imposed. Snow’s poutiness was never just the aggravation native to a patriarch caught with his pants down. Rather, it was the defensiveness characteristic to a man who finds himself involved in a situation in which he’s forced to go through certain sorts of ritualistic motions and to ape traits he doesn’t possess or admire. (Consider the level of Bush’s defensiveness, remember how many times Bush had to pretend to be afflicted with “compassion”—and be afraid, be very afraid.)
Substitute “knowledge” for “substance” and you’ll find yourself in possession of a keen analogy: it’s quite possible that Snow was never much better-versed than Perino in recondite military details. (Or even in basic military facts.) Nevertheless Snow would have found himself constrained, when acting in his public capacity, to pretend to such knowledge. He’d of course have been poigniantly aware all the while that he had no idea what he was talking about and that he was running an ongoing risk of having his ignorance exposed. That’s enough to make any fellow get testy. Perino, OTOH, has never had to put up the same kind of front: she can simply shrug, make a little moue, and admit that she doesn’t know a thing about any of that missile and carrier and destroyer stuff, and add that she doesn’t care. This works because Perino is a chick.
The “sunny banality” Perino projects is a feminine specialty, and so is the “slight sigh of worn patience” she can’t make it through a press conference without. IMO, modern advertising exists in order to give women lessons in sunny banality: in pitch after pitch Junior splodges up the walls and the rug and Junior Senior (otherwise known as Hubby) does pretty much the same thing, only on a grander scale, while Mom retains her serene aura of unflappable blankness. The house may be wrecked and the cupboard may be bare, but Mom isn’t going to give the neighbors any cause to talk. Mom isn’t going to give the neighbors any reason to conclude that she’s dissatisfied with her lot: oh no. It’s Mom’s job to maintain the sort of appearance which telegraphs to the onlooker that everything is fine, couldn’t be better, in fact, so, honestly, whatever is there further to discuss? Mom’s appearance says that the walls and the rug are clean, so why are we all still standing here talking the matter over? You won’t find any flaws in Mom’s self-presentation (you shouldn’t be able to, at any rate) and Mom’s self-presentation is what matters; the reality which underlies it is of no account. So says every ad in the world.
Dana Perino’s podium style is very much in the tradition of the soap commercial. That Junior, that Dubya, he’s such a little roisterer, he’s always making a mess, but fortunately MomPerino can always meet the emergency with her magic brew of brightness and blankness, which may not eliminate the dirt but which has the virtue of lightening the stain—temporarily, at least. Perino’s sigh of worn patience? Just a week or so ago a feminist blogger (not on this site) admitted that the good thing about a woman’s Time Of The Month is that it enables the woman in question to utter thoughts she’d otherwise smother beneath six gulps of wilful silence. In Dana’s case the gulp isn’t a gulp. In Dana’s case the case the gulp is a sigh. Perino “pushes the message” as she might push a mop or a broom. Honestly, it’s enough to make a person wonder why the Bush administration has ever employed males as spokespeople, since it’s evident that a woman—a traditional woman—suits their purposes so much better. The customary purpose of a spokesman/spokesperson is to communicate thoughts, concerns, ideas. But the Bushies have no interest in doing any of that. Their only objective is to wipe the slate clean, as a teacher might wipe down a whiteboard or as a housewife might wipe down a countertop. Man The Hunter, Man The Tribal Leader, Man The Passer-Down Of Major Precepts isn’t suited for that sort of work. But Woman The Picker-Up-Of-Garbage is.
*Dana Perino is a conservative woman, who may well regard a life’s worth janitorial scutwork as her natural fate. Just pointing that out.
bekaot,
Please tell me that you will become a much-lauded and highly compensated writer - on any topic. (If you aren’t already.)
Please?
bekabot,
Please tell me that you will become a much-lauded and highly compensated writer - on any topic. (If you aren’t already.)
Please?
Well…nope, teac. (Sorry.) I’m just a pore goober who lives in the sticks—who doesn’t like crowds, doesn’t like noise, and can’t stick to deadlines—so the sticks are the place for me. [Cue “Green Acres’ in the background.] Still and all, I’m muchly flattered, so thanks.
I know this is not really the point of the post, and I’ll sound like I have a stick up my butt, but I slept on it, and it’s still bugging me, so here goes: I really wish you had used a version of that picture without the “Vagina: It’s Not a Clown Car” legend underneath it. I got no problem with your own caption, or even with making fun of the Duggars, who do use the publicity around their extremely large brood both to get free stuff and spread their troubling world view, which includes both wifely submission and the idea that the Pill causes abortion. From the hair to the clothes to the self-martyrdom, there is plenty to mock. But that “Vagina” legend makes her body itself the object of mockery. Combined with the general notion out there in our culture that childbirth ruins women’s bodies, particularly our vaginas, that bothers me.
;) .
Maybe one or two kids don’t do much, but after lots of babies there is the little thing called the husbands knot. Oh, the bladder issues, the uterine displacement, the scars, the increase in clotting, the spider veins…Children are damn big parasites and they affect us quite a bit.
If the Duggars paid the same taxes or fees, they’d limit their brood. It is spun that all can do this but they leave out the inherited wealth, the odd idea of the family as congregation, the use of the home as church, the freebies from the other church, the assistance from the state, the resistance to schooling (both girls and boys), the latent rebellion of the girls, the gender imbalance in workload,
Perino hires ‘Messicans or ‘Malens to do the cleaning. Duggar brood mare has the girls do all the housework.
I understand that one should not have any knowledge of military terminology, technology, or history. Is there a list of other areas of knowledge that one should know nothing about? Is meterology ok, because I am interested in the weather.
(snark off)
btw, michael, the Battleship reference was inspiredly silly… good job!
Mold, I was pretty clear that I think the Duggars themselves are fair game. I just don’t think her vagina is.
Mold’s comment interested me, so I went looking. A poster on another blog wrote this:Everyone on here has missed the point about this family entirely. I personally could not care less if they have a million kids and screw themselves to death but the fact is, Jim Bob Duggar is a politician. He has tried to run for US Congress and, by the grace of MY God has been defeated twice. One of his campaign promises is to work towards outlawing the use of all artificial birth control in the US, even for married couples. Not only do the Duggars like how they live, but the want the rest of us to live their way too. Take notice, America. The Duggars also buy into “debt free living” On the surface, that looks good, but take a closer look..how do they stay debt free? Out of the charity and good will of others. They shop for their kids clothes at thrift shops. They go to charity auctions and buy things. They are given goods and services by the community and now, by the Learning channel. The Duggars don’t even own a TV set but they sure don’t mind being on tv. I guess all those freebies make it worthwhile.
Think about this…if we were all Duggars (married with 16-17 kids), where would that leave the real Duggars? Nobody would be giving them jack because we would all need everything we could get for ourselves. There’s a reason why people limit their families these days. And it’s because, admit ir or not, it costs a hell of a lot of money to raise kids. I wish I could do what JB Duggar did with his house…call it church and apply AND receive Tax exempt status for it. He pays NO property taxes people! NONE. Doubtful that he pays any income taxes either after all those little tax exemptions.
The reality here is that the Duggars contribute NOTHING to American society. All they do is TAKE.Does anybody have anything to add to that? I know very little about the actual mechanics and tricks of keeping a family that large sustained.
okay, I bollocksed the blockquotes. It should read like this:
Mold’s comment interested me, so I went looking. A poster on another blog wrote this:
Does anybody have anything to add to that? I know very little about the actual mechanics and tricks of keeping a family that large sustained.seeker6079: that meshes with everything I’ve read about the Duggars as well. There used to be a huge thread at Television Without Pity about them; I read all of it, I think.
I couldn’t agree more with the commenter you quoted.
I do wish to comment on one thing, though, via a question.
A Christian fundamentalist family of seventeen who subscribe to an ideology that the church transcends and should govern the state is exempted from paying taxes because of their belief in this particular form of mythology; they are subsidized by the state via an exemption from taxes that all others must pay.
A secular humanist family who does not believe in a mythical creature but does believe in the state and the society that it structures is obliged to pay taxes.
Is there anybody else out there who thinks that the tax exemptions granted to religious organizations should go the way of the dodo?
The wiki on Jim Bob and his political aspirations:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:FUALIey_I9wJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bob_Duggar+jim.bob.duggar+candidate&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
It’s pretty easy, actually. Submarines are submarines. Carriers are huge targets, with planes. Battleship are big targets, with guns. Cruisers are smaller targets, with missile launchers. Destroyers protect the targets from the submarines.
“seeker, there are only types of seaborne vessels: submarines, and targets”
My old law partner agrees with you KJK::Hyperion.
I’m pretty sure nobody has any active “battleships” any more, so they may be targets only if mothballed/museum ships are targeted…
MikeEss said
>Sincerity is the most important thing in a press secretary.
>If you can fake that, you’ve got it made…
Sure but too much fakin’ ‘ll give yah cancer though.
>:)
Where the “osmosis” thing comes from - at least in the Northeast, it’s pretty common slang among grade and high-school teachers for the process of picking things up from the culture around you without formally studying them. Yes, it’s a stupid metaphor, but it’s a common one up here in the Boston area.
And again, how hard is it to, oh, watch “Victory At Sea” and PBS historical documentaries - or does she think that you have to have a penis to turn on the TV and all?
Except that, done in excess or under unsanitary conditions, it actually can ruin a woman’s body. The Duggars are lucky to have the benefits of modern medical technology, because if they were the same people in, say, Afghanistan, she probably would have had a fistula six or seven children ago at least.
Our bodies are not made to bear 16 children, one after another. They really aren’t.
Fistula doesn’t come from bearing too many kids. It comes from a too narrow pelvis, either from having children far too young or malnutrition during childhood and puberty. Fistula is common in countries with child marriage. It’s not common in countries where women don’t marry until their late teens, even when they have 10-15 kids. It was much more common in the U.S. when rickets was common. Some of the other stuff mentioned - urinary incontinence, uterine prolapse - is indeed a lot more likely is you have a gazillion kids.
But my point remains, even if her body is a trainwreck, in fact, especially if her body is a trainwreck, why are we mocking her vagina?
So true. We’re K-selected, not r-selected.
The suit says he is a devout Christian, married for 18 years and the father of eight.
the point of mentioning the 8 kids is that it makes the school look bad if they fired him leaving the kids without enough food to eat or something.
I don’t think that we are. Saying, “Your vagina is not a clown car, so don’t use it as one” is not the same as saying, “Your vagina sucks!” When we tell kids, “You’ll shoot your eye out with that BB gun,” are we mocking their eyes, or are we telling them to be careful of their body parts?
As I said, the human body is not made to have 16 children. It’s physically possible for some women, but it’s really, really not a good idea.
Plus the fact that if they were being really Biblical and all that, they’d do without modern medicine, and that huge brood would have already been culled by disease.
Fundamentalists–feh.
Oh snap, seriously?? This is a good PSA for condoms and birth control if there ever was one.
Seeker, your point is a good and valid one, but actually under the law I would guess that the qualifications for religious exemption probably are mythology-neutral.
In actual practice, I’m sure it would indeed be harder for the secular humanist family to fraudulently set itself up as a church than for a Christian fundamentalist family.
APS
Well, many secular humanists around here do have a god, Ape Man. A Biscuit God, to be precise.
A little different from the god of the fundamentalists, I grant you. They do whatever their god tells them, even though he never appears or speaks. We are free to disregard the mandates of the Biscuit God, despite the fact that he is almost always available and, like the God of the Old Testament, never seems to tire of giving his current opinion. However, unlike the Old Testament patriarch he has a sense of humour, indulges sin, and isn’t a homicidal maniac with gender, sexuality and tribal issues coming out the holy wazoo…
that we know about. If he is then we will rethink the whole obedience thing.
Now if can only find some way to have that belief translate into a tax deduction. What concerns me in that respect is simply this: for a religion to receive a tax break it seems to me a prerequisite that it believe in something that doesn’t exist or can’t be proven or disproven. Believing in something, you know, real, seems to be the kiss of tax death.
“The Internal Revenue Service: Proudly coddling the delusional since 1917!”
Never happen. Families that big are outliers; almost no one–male or female–with any say in the matter wants that many kids.
Even kids who grow up with that many sibs tend to choose childlessness–especially the girls, whose childhoods are frequently just 18-year stretches of changing diapers and domestic slavery.
The Duggers are “Quiverfull” believers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull
emphasis mine
this morning I kinda of took exception to the “Vagina is not a clown car” pointing out to my son who was reading over my should that it really is “Uterus is not a clown car” the vagina is just a passage …
he said “ewwww” and walked off
bad mom, bad mom
Folks like JimBob seek to outlaw all forms of contraception. We all know that Americans have sex and a a whole lot of them would probably continue to have sex even if contraception was outlawed, except instead of using condoms or the Pill, we’d go back to the old days when guys would try to pull out in time and girls would douche afterwards, drink some vinegar, and pray really really really hard. By banning BC, JimBob wants people to have more kids, which will lead to much larger families. If families on average increase to even 5 or 6 kids, megafamilies like the Duggars won’t be nearly as curious and intriguing to the public. If the Duggars lose their ’specialness’, then TLC etc. won’t be shelling out the big bucks. But I guess it wouldn’t matter to JimBob, since he’ll have his government to dictate.
And what a scary thought, by the way, JimBob or someone like him in a position of government power.
I have to admit that I laughed when I saw the “Vagina, not a clown car” poster. I’m a horrible person.
Because of my curiousity, I started reading blogs by women who are very conservative, hyper-”Christian”, and extremely anti-feminist. They believe in strict gender roles (women shouldn’t even be allowed to vote or should vote just like their husbands), and they totally prescribe to being quiverfull. Now, they aren’t necessarily “yea, kids!” They are more “I’m building an army for God.” A lot of kids means they can fight off the evil gays, feminists, and non-Christians.
And for all of their talk of being modest, meek and submissive to their husbands, they are some of the most smug, arrogant people I have ever come across on the Internet. They are like high school mean girls who never grew up. They can’t even handle a slight disagreement. Most of the comments they get are total ass-kissing, and comments that disagree with them either don’t get published or are rebuffed with a snotty, “Let me enlighten you…”
As for the debt-free angle, many of these women claim, “God will provide.” But once you dig a little deeper, you find out that many of them are receiving assistance from the government or are getting more out of the system that they pay in. Many of them also get lots of handouts from their churches, communities and families. But the idea of paying it forward never occurs to them. I never read about them giving money to charity or helping the less fortunate. To them, if someone falls on hard times, it’s because he or she is sinful and deserves it. These are truly hateful, horrible people.
I have to admit that I laughed when I saw the “Vagina, not a clown car” poster. I’m a horrible person.
Because of my curiousity, I started reading blogs by women who are very conservative, hyper-”Christian”, and extremely anti-feminist. They believe in strict gender roles (women shouldn’t even be allowed to vote or should vote just like their husbands), and they totally prescribe to being quiverfull. Now, they aren’t necessarily “yea, kids!” They are more “I’m building an army for God.” A lot of kids means they can fight off the evil gays, feminists, and non-Christians.
And for all of their talk of being modest, meek and submissive to their husbands, they are some of the most smug, arrogant people I have ever come across on the Internet. They are like high school mean girls who never grew up. They can’t even handle a slight disagreement. Most of the comments they get are total ass-kissing, and comments that disagree with them either don’t get published or are rebuffed with a snotty, “Let me enlighten you…”
As for the debt-free angle, many of these women claim, “God will provide.” But once you dig a little deeper, you find out that many of them are receiving assistance from the government or are getting more out of the system that they pay in. Many of them also get lots of handouts from their churches, communities and families. But the idea of paying it forward never occurs to them. I never read about them giving money to charity or helping the less fortunate. To them, if someone falls on hard times, it’s because he or she is sinful and deserves it. These are truly hateful, horrible people.
JimBob wants the really cheap labor that large families provide. Why else import the Irish and Italians? The “natives” had fewer kids and that kept wages livable. Import a few thousand breeders and the wages tank.
Anyone have a link to Savage’s complaint?
Jeffrey: Osmosis is the movement of water. How the hell can that help you understand military stuff?
“Osmosis”, in this case, is a metaphor, commonly used by students whose reputation depends on not being seen actually studying to explain how they learned something despite being asleep in class. (”Absorbed some of those knowledge molecules floating around.”)
So its easy to explain why more men than women seem to pick up these things — they spend more time hanging out in places where the right type of knowledge or some echo of it is floating around.