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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:34 PM
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Conservative Columnist Ross Douthat: 'We Need to Slut Shame Women More'
Boy, the wingnuts just keep getting loonier and loonier...I think they need some Midol. Here's another one of "The American Taliban".

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According to the 5 millionth study released on the subject just this week, American women are afflicted with a deep-seated dissatisfaction ... or unhappiness ... or malaise ... you know, a "problem with no name", just like that other problem Betty Friedan wrote about. Except that this time around, everyone can blame feminism!

That’s what Ross Douthat does in a New York Times op-ed, (very loosely based on the study) that the NYT chose to highlight with a slot on their online front page.

On some fronts — graduation rates, life expectancy and even job security — men look increasingly like the second sex. But all the achievements of the feminist era may have delivered women to greater unhappiness.

Douthat also chalks up the crushing dissatisfaction plaguing women to another terrible development: the "advance" of single motherhood:

MORE (if you can stomach the Taliban-like extremism and the misogynism):

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/140259/conservative_columnist_ross_douthat%3A_%27we_need_to_slut_shame_women_more%27/
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masuki bance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:37 PM
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1. He said 'We Need to Slut Shame Women More'?
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:37 PM
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2. Lemme guess,
He either:

1) Can't get laid

2) Can't stay married

Hell, who would want him?
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:45 PM
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5. I want him...
....locked in a basement away from civilized society. :mad:
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:46 PM
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7. He might enjoy that sort of thing
sorry to say.

:P
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:50 PM
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11. No, he wouldn't.
:evilgrin:
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:42 PM
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3. He has Low esteem of himself...became a Women Hater...prolly abused as a child
to the point its in his head to hate all women...

Typ Pub Bully....its lonely where he sleeps...
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:44 PM
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4. So Ross is launching a campaign to ostracize Newt and Rush?
Edited on Tue May-26-09 06:45 PM by JHB
No reason, of course, save the fact that contemporary America doesn’t seem willing to accept sexual stigma, period. We simply don’t have the stomach for permanently ostracizing the sexually irresponsible — be they a pregnant starlet, a thrice-divorced tycoon, or even a prostitute-hiring politician.

...Like Rush and Newt, Ross?

I'll pay attention to Douthat when he actually does that.


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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:48 PM
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9. LOL! Seems so. Heh. n/t
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:46 PM
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6. More like Russ Douchebag or Russ Asshat. or maybe Russ Douchehat. nt
Edited on Tue May-26-09 06:46 PM by FLAprogressive
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:48 PM
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8. What's the point in doing that? How are guys going to get laid?
I never got that kind of attitude... girls having to "behave" but guys don't. If all girls "behave" what are men going to do to get off????

Makes no sense. :crazy:
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:50 PM
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10. Wonkette has a name for Douthat
Neck Beard
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 06:52 PM
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12. I hope he knows that it costs an extra thousand.
Edited on Tue May-26-09 06:53 PM by Cleita
Just leave it on the dresser. If I'm going to be relegated to being a slut, it's going to cost him, but fair warning, I prefer to be the dominatrix.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 08:07 PM
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13. you know, he'd probably take you up on that.
kick his ass...
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