House of Eratosthenes

I note, with interest, that the entire point to this follow-up piece here is exactly the same as my bullet point #2 over here. The fellow writing is explaining the shenanigans in which he engaged when he suggested we should repeal womens’ suffrage the day before, whereas I was commenting on the phony “controversy” surrounding a video circulating the blogosphere that points out conservative females tend to be more pulchritudinous than their liberal counterparts.

If a “Larry Summers Fishing Lure” did work this well, it would probably be banned. The condemnation always comes. It is quick, thundering, voluminous, and lacking in manners by design. It invariably demonstrates what Amy Alkon was discussing in her interview with John Hawkins (I should note here that there are legitimate reasons for disagreeing with my own opinions on this issue, and they are my own in spite of all these names I’m tossing in): People are demonstrating a rudeness through the threads and the e-mail offlines, which I don’t believe they would demonstrate in real life.

The tragedy is that there is this great impetus, like a calling for some kind of a pilgrimage, to speak out on the issue. I guess this is the generation that’s been taught silence is consent. And yet nothing is pointed out. No evidence presented, nothing proven, nothing refuted. When it comes time to defend established and defined oppressed-minorities, we have been taught to challenge but the challenge consists of this and nothing more: You Stink. Like little children. Just condemnation, nothing else. We’re-not-gonna-letcha-play-our-reindeer-games. They act like it’s not worth pursuing the argument. But here’s the kicker — they just had to speak up! Saying nothing, apparently, was summarily ruled out as an option. So they still say nothing, but chatter anyway, including this guy over here. Five or six paragraphs of nuthin’.

But at least the mindless drones who attacked this guy, were provoked by what appeared to be a sincere calling for repealing of the 19th amendment. I’ll oppose that, lots of other people would oppose it, but at least the people I know would be able to give you reasons why we shouldn’t repeal the 19th amendment.

Nobody ever once came up with a good explanation for why it’s “sexist” to notice how ugly liberal women tend to be, though. They just think it is. And to justify that, all they can do is a lot of name-calling.

Generations have now been taught that this is a proper method of discourse. It’s simply a logical conclusion of the “Silence Equals Consent” doctrine. The lesson is to take it with a grain of salt anytime you hear anyone saying that. Or if they can succeed in establishing that as a social protocol, uncontested, don’t be surprised a few years later when our national was-and-means-of-talking-out-the-issues is spontaneously and culturally set ablaze, and tossed into the toilet.

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pulchritudinous?

Listening to Dennis Miller again, I see. 🙂

For the rest of us:

pulchritudinous – used of persons only; having great physical beauty; “pulchritudinous movie stars” — beautiful – delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; “a beautiful child”; “beautiful country”; “a beautiful painting”; “a beautiful theory”; “a beautiful party”

(disclosure… I actually do listen to Dennis Miller and I still didn’t know that word.)
- philmon | 04/19/2010 @ 08:42
No, I knew it was a word. If “pulchritude” was perfectly cromulent, then the spellchecker should have “pulchritudinous,” and it did. Most of the people I’m complaining about, have no idea what pulchritude means.

Kinda like Copernicus publishing his heliocentric theory in Latin instead of Greek, to avoid stirring things up yet one more time.
- mkfreeberg | 04/19/2010 @ 09:14
Ok, that finished me off. I’m completely cracking up in my cube. “ROTFL” as they say, and the two progressives across the hall are now nodding in knowing agreement that I am indeed, “nuts”. 😉
- philmon | 04/19/2010 @ 10:02
Hey! A memeorandum link! Cool.
- bpenni | 04/19/2010 @ 12:41
Aw dang, now the undiscovered fishing hole’s gonna get discovered. Oh well, fun while it lasted…
- mkfreeberg | 04/19/2010 @ 12:43

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