Ever notice how Bill Maher reacts to certain women?

[HardWorkingDem]

So I won't get in any more trouble.....

Has anyone else noticed how Bill Maher reacts to certain women that appear on his show?


This week he fawned over a vapid Cameron Diaz and last week he was condescending to Meghan MeCain. Then, in countless appearances before, he has always been subservient to Ann Coulter (mentioning her should make me safe).


In other words, it seems Maher treats certain women in a certain way......

[Captain_Nemo]

1. I never thought he liked women too much.

[fujiyama]

94. I don't know about "like"

but I think the key is respect, and I have to wonder how much he has for women. There is a sexist nature of him. He's also condescending, arrogant, and has a huge ego. He's also not always terribly informed of the issue which he's spouting off about and his knowledge of issues sometimes strikes me as superficial at best.

But I find him amusing nevertheless and occasionally he's humorous and has funny observations. I watch his show once in a while because I like the format and he has some interesting guests on.

[madeline_con]

2. I think he is/was doing Coulter.

He defended her as his "freind" when intorducing her a couple years ago.

[Teaser]

4. oh god I need brain bleach

or at least need to think of an actually sexy couple after that...

[leftstreet]

6. Jeez.....you know some of us are eating here

I WAS enjoying some nachos.

:puke:

[billyoc]

11. Oh, yeah, when Richard Belzer called her a fascist party doll!

:rofl:

[SmileyRose]

16. Coulter has never been married and is therefore a virgin.

She is a conservative Christian who condemns those who get their freak on outside of marriage. Surely you don't think she would have sex outside of marriage do you?

:dunce:

[rurallib]

43. one of few people I could believe is a virgin

she could scare the erection off a fertility god.

[shadowknows69]

52. Duzy!

And not even anything to do with looks. Her vibe alone is nauseating.

[Butch350]

58. Sex with what - a pixie stick.

[lies and propaganda]

18. yeah...a couple of YEARS ago

no public sighting, no letting her on his show, and even public trashing of her.

Just gossiping to prove your point doesnt work.

[Lorax7844]

23. blech, he needs to examine his friendships then

the OP is 100% correct. Women fall into 2 catagories for Maher; women he wants to fuck and women he respects. If you're old and haggard you are treated like Madeline Albright with respect and like you have something to say. If he thinks that you're hot, then you might as well either shut up or at least amuse him. It's one of the things I hate about him and if I ever meet him I'm going to call him out for it.

[xxqqqzme]

31. He has been very critical of her in the last year

and don't think she has been on his show over the last 2 seasons.

[Dorian Gray]

37. I've suspected that myself....

[AngryOldDem]

49. Weren't they dating, back in the Politically Incorrect, Comedy Central era? n/t

[Teaser]

3. there's women he wants to fuck, and those he doesn't.

I'm sure that flavors the treatment. Not sure which way.

[ThomWV]

46. I doubt that fucking women is high on his priority list.

[Teaser]

69. oh you don't know Bill Maher, do you?

.

[anneboleyn]

70. I do know that he is a regular attendee of Playboy mansion parties, so he does like women+silicone,

[Teaser]

73. he is a massive horndog

at least, that is the rep he tries to cultivate.

[omega minimo]

103. and he comes off as a smug, smarmy ass.

[theboss]

90. He is a legendary coozehound

He is probably having cocaine-fueled sex with a starlet at this very moment.

[ThomWV]

107. Overcompensating?

[vixengrl]

5. Yes, he flirts. The whole segment was very "flirty".

That's why I think he has Amy Holmes on all the time, and I think he extended more than usual tolerance to Meghan McCain, and there isn't much reason to tolerate Ann Coulter, except with respect to a feeling towards women that exceeds mere chivalry.

Unless we decide he's chivalrous. And not a.....p....pretender of empathetic feelings towards women with the expectation of reciprocal favors.

There. That should be suitably Victorian.

[peace frog]

47. He does go a bit starry-eyed

over that Holmes creature while the rest of us are quietly retching. Seems there's no need for a woman to have a functioning brain so long as Maher wants to fuck her.

[theboss]

91. Did Victorians pop Viagra and nail 20-year-old lingerie models?

Because that seems to be Maher's main goal in life.

[stevedeshazer]

7. Why the fascination with B Maher?

Is there a point?

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[omega minimo]

27. Lowest of the low

"There are few things sadder than a dumb prson who thinks he's smarter than someone else, and chooses to ACT upon that belief."

Also a good description of Maher.

[ZombieHorde]

8. McCain was saying some really dumb things on his show.

I started to feel embarrassed for her.

He did seem to be attracted to Cameron Diaz, but many men are attracted to her.

[MrSlayer]

9. I think he's usually the same with most women as he is with most men.

The Diaz interview was basically pointless and he was being a bit flirty but nothing over the top. I thought he was being nice to McCain last week. He usually treats the women on his show the same as the men. I don't know what you're seeing that I'm not seeing.

[WayneFrancis]

10. I was irritated by Cameron Diaz' appearance

[DesertFlower]

22. why? she looked very nice.

[omega minimo]

28. because of the state your in?

[Skittles]

83. the state of "Florid" does indeed sound suspicious

[ddiver]

12. Ever since Coco Johnsen talked I wondered about him.

[Kitty Herder]

13. I've noticed is that in his panels, he tends to ignore women when they speak.

His attitude towards women seems to be that they are less than human, and his sexist jokes reflect that, but not as much as his horrible treatment of women on his panel. (I can't comment on his treatment of Diaz in particular, since I no longer watch Maher and refuse to do so.)

[omega minimo]

34. He's done this since his old four guest talk show.

[DutchLiberal]

39. That's the biggest bullshit I've ever read about Maher.

If anything, he listens *more* to the women on his panel. This, or the previous, season he even had a panel consisting of only women. He even said on his show that women have more character, because it's never women who whine after the show about how they've been treated; it's always the men who do so.

But I know what this is, and what this thread is about. Sometimes, Bill Maher makes jokes about women that are not 'politically correct' and some women... er, I mean, people... can't stand it.

[Kitty Herder]

80. Perhaps you're ignoring them, too.

If so, you wouldn't notice Maher doing it. It's common behavior for sexist males. Start to be aware of your own behavior towards women.

Do you get offended at jokes that are not "politically correct" if they make fun of groups other than women, like blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals? If not, why the double standard?

[DutchLiberal]

101. Oh please, I'm sure you can do better than calling names...

It's obvious from your post you've never met me, otherwise you would be too ashamed to write that kind of things about *me*! So next time, try to argue based on facts, okay?

[omega minimo]

105. KH didn't call names.

Unless you take "It's common behavior for sexist males" personally.

It is common behavior for (sexist) males who may not notice themselves or others doing it. Haven't you ever been with a group where the men talk to each other as if the women aren't there? It's weird. Not uncommon. Often subconscious.

[omega minimo]

104. He's slimy.

[Chorophyll]

60. I noticed that on his old Comedy Central show.

It was obvious. I gave up on him way back when.

[omega minimo]

106. I lost interest on the old show, when he had four interesting guests and would always shift the talk

in a stupid direction. :shrug:

[Lorien]

109. Can you point to a specific instance?

Last episode I watched he had a woman on who was in charge of oversight of the last TARP bailout. She was middle aged and hardly glamorous, but he was completely engaged in his conversation with her. It was a great segment. Arianna Huffington is one of his closest friends and I doubt that she would put up with "horrible treatment" from anyone.

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[omega minimo]

25. Ever wonder why it stays up so long with OP so unrepentant and then he comes back?

[krispos42]

30. Ever wonder if maybe there isn't a GD mod on duty 24/7? n/t

[omega minimo]

32. I assumed there were other fires to put out and this poster had ample time/input to wake up.

:thumbsup:

[SoCalDem]

15. He has short rich man syndrome

Overly flirtatious with women who would not give him the time of day, if he did not have money:) The women he has on his show, don't want or need anything from him, and he has little to offer anyway, except for snarky double entendres

[omega minimo]

35. He has Face-Like-A-Runover-Opossum Syndrome

How wonderful that radio and TV is so full of such unattractive blowhards from both sides of the aisle, as long as they're male. ::bounce:

[anneboleyn]

71. LOL! The best descrip I have ever heard. Thanks for the water-through-nose snort.

[omega minimo]

77. LOL

:spray:

Even the complexion, right? Something about the hair...... silly putty nose....

[lindisfarne]

17. Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. n/t

[lindisfarne]

19. I only watch New Rules (youtube) so No. Never understood his Coulter thing-has to be the lower brain

overruling the upper one.

[Swede]

20. Ever notice how everybody reacts to different people?

:shrug:

[Reterr]

65. lol

:thumbsup:

[Hannah Bell]

24. he's creepy to everyone. just creepier to women he lusts after.

he creeps me out.

[omega minimo]

26. Part of his creepiness is he's not as smart as he thinks he is. He's just smarmy.

[Hannah Bell]

29. smarmy. exactly. (shudder)

[omega minimo]

33. LOL

[cherokeeprogressive]

36. Mr. Bill should not be seen as a barometer of anything at all.

He's a stand-up comic who's been given his own hour of airtime.

Thinking of BM as any kind of spokesperson for Dems serves only make Dems look silly and petty.

Last week DU'ers were putting him into their Slap/Chops for saying something they disagreed with. He used his air time to call Obama out on his use of the M$M and for that he was, for about fifteen seconds, Persona Non Grata.

Same with KO, and a host of other "supposed" progressive spokespersons. They're heroes if they speak what we percieve as the truth, and zeroes if they disagree. Heroes today, Zeroes tomorrow.

Sports fans would call most DU'ers "Fair Weather Fans".

[tularetom]

38. The discussion with McCain made me want to hurl

especially the part where Maher tried to smooth her ruffled feathers after his other guests verbally beat the snot out of her. He talked to her like she was a child who had been humiliated by her friends (which she sort of verified by sitting there pouting).

Diaz - glad I didn't watch.

In all honesty, I don't really like Maher all that much because he is entirely too timid with his wing nut guests, But it is enjoyable to turn on the TV and hear someone talking about bush, cheney, limpballs, mccain, boner, palin and the other pukes in the same kind of language we use in real life (complete with f-words).

[bigjohn16]

40. I saw him last night at the Ryman in Nashville, TN

It was a great show. He got a standing ovation and I don't think I stopped laughing throughout the whole thing.

I'm not really sure why there's such a vitriolic hatred of Maher on DU but I have a feeling it has more to do with him not towing that line then with his views of women.

[TNDemo]

42. Me too.

Did you notice how many old people were there? Some really old, like the woman in front of me who was clapping through most of it. Great show.

[chimpymustgo]

48. Bingo. Maher is smart and funny and has really been on his game lately.

[HardWorkingDem]

53. Nah, I really like Bill Maher, but his antics with certain guests is bizzare..

So often he attacks people he sees are vapid and empty and then, when certain guests come on, he sits there and acts like a teenage boy. And it's pretty clear about the type of guests he does this with.

[DutchLiberal]

62. He's criticizing Obama and the Dems. We can't have that, now can we?

DU'ers adored him when he went after Bush and Cheney, and they loved him when he went afer McCain during the election. But once he started to question Obama's policies, they all turned on him.

[Mari333]

41. the whore/madonna syndrome

I see that perception with a lot of men, especially older men like Bill and the generation before him. oddly enough, I dont see it so much amongst my sons generation. they seem to be more open minded, which I like.
and dont forget, women bought into that too. my mom , who is 82, still sees things that way. I find it amusing.
Bill Maher sort of reminds me of the little brother who is snarky and makes jokes. My take on him is he is insecure around women, and going thru some mid life crisis or something. peter pan syndrome . I still agree with his analysis of the Dems however.

[Medusa]

61. Yep. Do a quick google search on his former girlfriends

porn stars, playmates, and former groupies. Charming guy. (But I still like his show anyway).

[RainDog]

44. Are you trying to discredit him because of what he said about democrats?

just asking.

[HardWorkingDem]

54. Not at all.....just pointing out....

How he obviously gets thrown off his game by come women and how he clearly allows this to happen. I keep using McCain as the example. As others have pointed out, she was clearly out of her league on his show and it was embarrassing to watch. Just like the last show with Diaz.

He also does this somewhat with Huffington, but she's too tough for him and gives it right back.

[geckosfeet]

45. Yes. How odd that people treat different people differently.

Is that odd?

Methinks it is quite normal.

[dem629]

50. Aside from his obsession over religion and pot? Yes.

I find him insufferably unfunny. Preachy "comedy" is a drag.

[graywarrior]

51. Can't watch him any more

He causes me to have a certain reaction towards men like him.

[Butch350]

55. Yeah me too. Is there a problem or something?

[HughMoran]

56. He fawned over Ann Culthore way back on Politically Incorrect

That hasn't changed over the years. When I heard he was touching Meghan McLame, I just rolled my eyes.

I swear he has a thing for blond Republican dull blades - like an "angry f___" fantasy or something.

[Christa]

57. He is "friends" with Coultergeist

for the ratings only

[HughMoran]

59. The wink and a nod feigning of being FB's is just for ratings?

Yeah, more than likely - but we don't really know for certain, do we? ;)

[undeterred]

63. I've noticed Bill Maher hates women.

He may not hate having sex with women, but he hates everything else about women.

[CLANG]

67. You've "noticed that Bill Maher hates women"?

It's fair to bash him for specific things he does or says but to say he hates women? How do you "notice" that? I'm crying foul on your post. Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

[undeterred]

68. He talks about women as if they exist to satisfy his urges.

He's a total dick, and very very childish in the way he thinks about women and the way he acts around them. He's incapable of a relationship with anything but an orifice.

[CLANG]

72. I watch him all the time on HBO and don't see that

If you are referring to his comedy act, maybe you're right because I haven't seen it.

[Hello_Kitty]

75. It would be too easy to point out that you are a male

But even a man should be able to see how disdainful Maher is toward women. Well, unless that man shared his sentiments.

[CLANG]

76. Well that sucks.

Good evening to you too!

[seabeyond]

78. i happen to agree with the two posters BUT....

"Well that sucks.

Good evening to you too!"

the post is just cute. made me giggle

men dont pick up on it so easily, or some men. lots of men readily will agree with women on this though.

he doesnt think much of women, except a fuck

imo

[CLANG]

100. I won't deny that you very well may be correct about BM...

I just truly don't remember seeing anything like that. I'd love to see it if anyone has a link to one.

Anyway, Good Day to you, seabeyond!

[stanwyck]

87. I don't think he hates women, but he sure doesn't

have a very good understanding of women. I've been watching him since the "Politically Incorrect" days and he has said on many occasions that women hate each other. He brought this up with Diaz, which she refuted. Thank You, Cameron. I'm not sure why there are men who can't resist propagating this myth that women hate each other. We don't. Sure, there are some women who don't get along well with other women. But they are a sad minority.

[seabeyond]

89. it promotes the idea, for male ego, that women are all about fighting each other over the male

it strokes his ego.... it is always about stroking his flimsy ego

[Reterr]

64. Not really-I generally like Bill Maher and think he makes great points often

He isn't afraid to call the Dems out when they are behaving like asswipes. Haven't watched the show in ages though and I didn't see any of the appearances you list, but I can understand why many people would be condescending to Meghan McCain. She is a vapid moron with a mike....the only reason she has a mike is because she is McCain's daughter and appears to be trying to become the "kinder"/"gentler" face of the Repug party.

I do agree though that he does seem to like (barf) Ann Coulter, which is the one thing about him that I have always found absolutely inexplicable.

[BlooInBloo]

66. You mean he's a cooter canine?

:P

[Hello_Kitty]

74. One time he had Princeton Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell on his panel

She teaches race and gender studies and is really sharp, as well as photogenic - Olbermann has her on fairly often. Anyway, Maher was acting like a total sexist assclown and she was visibly disgusted by him. I don't think she'll be going back on his show and yeah, I do notice that he treats women like shit in general.

Maher and Howard Stern are two "liberals" I have no use for.

[undeterred]

79. Ugh, I don't know which of those two is worse.

[HardWorkingDem]

81. Glad you mentioned her...

I love this woman.

And what is so great about her is she can be so engaging when needed to be. I've seen her on the KO show when she is so charming, funny and charismatic. And then other times when it is desired, she can be so scholarly and serious.

Like Olbermann, she is another one of our unsung national treasures.

[Hello_Kitty]

85. There are few academics who make me say "I would LOVE to take your class!"

She is one of them.

[stanwyck]

99. Love for her to get her own show on MSNBC

Morning Melissa would be a vast improvement over Morning Joe. She's so much smarter than Joe and is not a 50's style sitcom wife like Mika.
Kick Joe out.
Put Melissa in.

[stanwyck]

88. In my fantasy world, Harris-Lacewell replaces Mika

on Morning Joe.

[theboss]

92. But is she hot?

"Photogenic" can mean so many things.

[Hello_Kitty]

95. Bill Maher, is that you?

:eyes:

Way to miss the point, Ace.

[theboss]

96. So...she's a fatty then.

I'm just trying to have a little fun, folks.

[Hello_Kitty]

98. What do you look like? Post a pic.

So I can have a little fun at your expense.

[theboss]

108. I'm a goddamn good looking man

Just like Dabney Coleman.

[Skittles]

82. he's a pig

[Baikonour]

84. He's a sexist, insecure pig.

Then again, it probably wouldn't surprise me if he comes out of the closet eventually.

[seabeyond]

86. that is the ironic about these men. it is so obvious they are reliving their rejections of teenage

years. they think they are so cool, .... and really for all of us, we see the insecure little boy that cant get any.

[mainer]

93. I think he's nicer to those who can't defend themselves

Meghan McCain, for instance, seems so young and vulnerable. Attacking her would be like beating up a kitten. If a woman has teeth and can fight back, I think he's a little rougher.

As for Coulter, I'm not sure what to make of their relationship. They used to date, but he has nothing good to say about her now. I think he just looks at her as if she's loony.

[Evoman]

97. Bill Maher is an interesting character.

He is a smart, funny guy. But he definitely has issues with women. He isn't a great looking guy, and he is very insecure where they are concerned. It is obvious that when he was younger, he had major issues with women and was probably routinely rejected by them. Now that he has money, and fame, it's gotta be a lot easier for him, and maybe he is trying to convince the people around him that he deserves these women, that he is man enough. He sees women as trophies now as well, something to show off.

Honestly, I don't think he HATES women. But he is certainly sexist. And when he has the good looking ones on his show, he sometimes reverts to the kind of personality you would see in your high school nerd who got a cheerleader on his show....sometimes flattery and flirty if they are nice, and dickish and insecure if they aren't.

My two cents.

[DailyGrind51]

102. He sucks up to women who are thin and somewhat attractive.

[BoneDaddy]

110. Who cares?