House of Eratosthenes

Via Dr. Melissa Clouthier, we learn of yet another Sarah Palin thing, which is yet another left-winger making herself into a complete ass, this time on democrat Underground (dU).

“JVS” wants attention, and I think we should all be happy to oblige.

When I am among secular people I will attack her for being a religious zealot. When I am among people from church, I will attack her for being of a heterodox denomination. When I am among liberals I will attack her for her conservative views. When I am among conservatives I will attack her for her for anything they are prove to view as shortcomings in ideology. When I am among women, I will deride the obvious pandering of her nomination and the fact that McCain must not think much of womens’ intelligence, when I am among conservative men who dislike women in authority, I will rub their noses in it.

If I can attack her for opposite reasons over the course of an afternoon, I will consider it an accomplishment.

Same goes for Johnny Boy.

Now sure, that’s just one comment out of the entire thread, and it’s unique in showing so much candor about the tactics engaged…but this person is not unique in engaging them, and that’s got a lot to do with why I think it deserves as much attention as possible.

Also, I’m wondering about the “…when I am among conservative men who dislike women in authority, I will rub their noses in it.” I wish I could find out how many times that’s come up. How often that particular battle plan has been tried. How well it’s worked.

I have the impression, and I can’t prove it, that this is most of what we call the “blogosphere”: Men, who’ve been raised from infancy in a society determined to mitigate every single sexual disparity deemed beneficial to males, and leave the disparities beneficial to females standing — enlarged, even. Fathers battling a perverse school-and-pharmaceutical system that is bound and determined to drug their sons into some kind of virtual girlhood, by medicating away any trait that has the audicity to dangle out there and be masculine. Men who’ve been through at least one divorce, and understand the court system that presents its purpose as one of making sure all the bills are paid after the marriage is dissolved, really doesn’t care too much about that in the final analysis, and instead is simply there to make sure that when all the dust has settled the guy doesn’t have any money left. Or visitation rights either. Men who have seen, with their own eyes, what kinds of exploding industries labor onward, day in and day out, to make sure men are replaceable and disposable — medical industries, legal industries, educational industries, entertainment industries.

Men who have watched people of both sexes become less courageous, through the decades. Less curious. Less resourceful. Less capable of solving unorthodox problems when a step-by-step script isn’t within arms’ reach. Less gun-friendly. Less likely to feel that tingle of excitement when a remote-control device is visible or available. Less likely to want to pee off a bridge and hit a leaf floating in the stream, or to understand why someone else would want to.

In short, men who have the personal experience to understand something is terribly wrong. Men who can see people are changing, within a relatively short time, and it isn’t good.

That matters, because over the course of several years, I’ve learned this is all you have to do, and all you have to be, to stand accused of the charge of “dislik[ing] women in authority.” You don’t really have to have any complaints about a woman boss, or for that matter, have ever in your life worked for a female boss. Any rejection of Hillary Clinton, at all, will do the trick. (That’s probably why they had to hold a four-day convention in Denver just to keep Barack Obama out of the club of “conservative men who dislike women in authority.”)

So if I’m right about the blogosphere being mostly men in this club — I dunno about that, but it seems our written prose is more bloated than most others, for some reason, so it appears to be true — it’s a particularly worthwhile question to ask.

Is there anyone anywhere — out of anyone who is male, or female & anti-feminist, and who finds Sarah Palin’s politics appealing — nurturing some simmering resentment against her because she’s female. I mean, out of anyone with a voice on the innerwebs, since the story broke Friday morning…one person???

I ask because, since 1971, I’ve been continually told this is an epidemic condition.

In JVS, we have someone specifically looking for someone like this.

And within that loathsome construct that is the conservative male who actually appreciates it when his lady brings him a cold beer…the pot-belly…the knuckle-dragger…the wife-beater-tee-shirt-wearer…the guy who drags car parts into the living room and fiddles with them in front of the teevee — so far, all I’ve seen for Gov. Palin is acceptance, wild enthusiasm, and something that almost borders on some kind of love. Not so much a schoolboy crush. More like the love a man has for a plate of samriches after he’s been left to starve for a very, very long time, to the point where he has to wonder how much longer he can go on, and then left to starve a little bit more.

Maybe what JVS is showing is the mirror-image opposite of that kind of love. With one exception — I think she cares just a little bit more that Palin has a vagina. From what I’ve seen so far, us spark-plug-polishing knuckle-draggers regard that as an object of mild interest, nothing more. We’re just as pleased as punch Gov. Palin came along when she did. To us, she proves it’s always darkest before the dawn.

And it would seem the apocrypha of the male who despises female authority has been lent a voice, for a generation or more, more sweeping, strident and shrill than its substance would merit.

Update: Via Ace of Spades HQ, via Rick, we find out about more.

122. What many here don’t understand. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH.

The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet:

Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

If people start to think that there might be something fishy with Palin’s last kid (if hers), then that’s FINE. One more doubt (whether tied to reality or not) is another hesitation at the ballot box.

GET WITH THE PROGRAM PEOPLE. The “rising above it” bullshit has served us so well in the past, hasn’t it?

If you have problems with the story, then STFU and get out of the way of Dems who are engaged in MODERN POLITICAL WARFARE. Go tend your garden or some other pedestrian task, because the “concern trolls” are not helping shape the message.

J

Actually, on that last point, I think I kind of missed that one. Classy libs.

I repeated the excerpt exactly as Rick had it because it seems the thread has been taken down. Can’t imagine why.

Here we come to the heart of the matter. Many of us are not in the tank for McCain, we want to stay out of the Democrat septic tank……….
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 09/02/2008 @ 11:24
The thing I found most interesting was the absolute focus on the battle with no thought to the ethics, outcome, or underlying reason. There’s no thought to right or wrong, reality or fantasy, no side to choose and no reason to choose it. Just turn, identify the enemy, fight the enemy tooth and nail, damn the consequences, damn the truth, damn my own ideals or yours as necessary. This is a life or death, fight or flight kind of fighting, totally uncalled for and inappropriate to a political battle.

This was, in short, a fight-off-the-murderous-thug type of combative thought. In (combat) fighting terms it works for just a few seconds until the enemy learns you’re panicking , you must capitalize quickly and finish the fight decisively or lose in the short term. Successful long term combat requires strategy and thought.

So this guy’s panicking and losing fast, and he knows it, if only subconsciously. If he doesn’t come out of it soon he’s gonna wake up under the CT scanner wondering what hit him.
- Tom The Impaler | 09/02/2008 @ 12:05
And from the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans, white with foam, we have millions upon millions of “soft” liberals who won’t even confess to a partisan preference, moaning several times a month about perhaps one day we can get the nastiness out of political discourse and everyone can “come together” on things. The Rodney King types — can’t we all just get along?

And they think every little thing the JVS’s want ’em to think, and do every little thing they want ’em to do. In so doing, encourage more of the same.
- mkfreeberg | 09/02/2008 @ 12:13
You know the whining of a motor when it’s power source goes crazy and it spins faster and faster, out of control — ever increasing in pitch and volume before it finally overheats, the bearings seize, and it explodes?

Yeah stuff like JVS there and the other one that Rick found, and the whole “there is a God because a hurricane is bearing down on NOLA right when the GOP convention is starting”, the strong, career-successful family woman is somehow an “anti-feminist”, my POTUS candidate doesn’t need experience because we want “change”, but your VPOTUS candidate has no expericence so she’s not qualified … etc, etc, etc ….. gives me hope that we’re hearing the whining of the dog-tail-chasing circular logic of the Left as it spins out of control on it’s way to self-destruction.

I know, I may be dreaming. But I’m starting to feel like it’s a possibility. And it started with the Palin pick.
- philmon | 09/02/2008 @ 12:13

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