Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Cylarz says I meandered a bit much, and he’s right…although, in my defense, it’s a bit tough to take on these things without meandering. It is a triangle of issues that are interconnected with each other even though they don’t bear a strong relationship to each other outside this one topic.
Maybe you should read this, before reading that. Let’s just make a crude table-of-contents of what we’re talking about.
1. Conservative women are much more attractive than liberal women overall. Yes you can find a pain-in-the-ass exception or two, or three, or four, to just about anything. But the point stands, the trend is unmistakable. Anybody who responds with something that doesn’t begin with “yes you are absolutely right” or “yes you are absolutely right but” — just isn’t arguing the point honestly.
2. A lot of people do not argue this point honestly.
Take a look at Yahoo Answers, for example. The observation was made two years ago, and it wasn’t me:
Why are Republican women so hot and Democrat women so unattractive?
Elisabeth Hasselback is smoking. I mean Laura Ingraham(Drew Barrymore), Michelle Malkin(Lucy Liu) and Ann Coulter(Cameron Diaz) could be “Georgie’s Angels” for crying out loud.
The answers are spot-on. But by “spot-on” I mean non-educational, non-enlightening, non-productive, acrid, hideous, dreadful.
Actually, single women tend to be Dems, and married gals tend to vote Repub. So I suppose the young, sexy, available ones are actually more likely to be Dems, statistically speaking.
Six or seven years ago, believe it or not, I spent a block of months being available. Let me tell you something sister: Maybe this is because of my age bracket — late thirties, at the time — but women who are available generally are available for a reason. Obviously there are exceptions to that, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to pull myself off the market. And then of course there’s the factor of “now I can dress like a bag lady and stop going to the gym” that applies once some women get married. I assume you’re referring to that. That’s just selfish. Selfish women are out there, but they’re outnumbered by the unselfish women. And guys are smart overall, they tend to pull the unselfish women off the market first.
Your comment is ignorant. You need to look at the pictures we’ve been seeing, and then refer back to Point #1. There’s something going on here.
Because Republicans are not as intelligent and focus their priority on silly, superficial things.
Pure jealousy, and fraudulent on top of it. Quick, what are some of the the deeper subjects probed by the wizened, discerning mind of Joy Behar? Arianna Huffington? Janeane Garofalo? Game set match, asshole.
Elisabeth Hasselback and Ann Coulter are what nightmares are made out of. Nonetheless, Republican, Democrat, who cares? They’re both the same.
More ignorance. You people need to see this…
Refer back to point #1. Something is going on there.
3. As a modern culture, we are coming perilously close to codifying a taboo against exceptionalism. This soft prohibition against noticing one woman is more gorgeous than another, or that conservative women are more appealing than liberal women, is simply the visible tip of the dorsal fin of something much, much larger. And dangerous.
This country has now spent generations worshiping at the alter of weakness, deliberately mixing up superior achievement with substandard achievement. It’s been making safety nets into hammocks.
When we have the President of the United States selling a health care plan He didn’t even bother to write — along the lines of, we’re going to come up with some magical new entitlement program modeled after two other entitlement programs that cost several times more than what they were supposed to, and once we task our government to provide all these new services it will cure all of our budget deficits — you know what’s going on there? That is a repetition of something that an application of just modest amounts of mental elbow grease would tell us, in short order, is bullshit.
When we spend a few years wondering if “global warming” is real or whether it’s a money grab, and then we have it proven right in front of our eyes that it’s a scam and we continue to debate it seriously — that is the sign of flawed forensic thinking. At that point, the scholar is only pretending to ponder the evidence, just going through the motions of it.
To top it off, when you’re a woman and you lean left, you are subject to a rigid, intra-gender taboo against making yourself too appealing to men. Nice dresses, long hair, sweet voices are frowned-upon. Scolding, nagging, frowning, yelling are to be encouraged.
You do all this stuff for a decade or two, it takes a toll.
A large number of our women have been working long and hard to be ugly trolls, and the fact of the matter that is what our modern society deserves…because a lot of our men are no better, they’ve been working hard to prove how harmless, ineffectual and un-manly they are. Many of our citizens, perhaps a majority, have been working long and hard to argue that terrorists are not dangerous, but charcoal barbeques somehow are. The upshot? Our society is poisoning itself. We’re trying to convince ourselves that safe things are dangerous, dangerous things are safe, honest people are liars, and liars deserve to be our leaders. And shushing each other up when we say innocuous things like “Holy smokes, does that lady ever look good wearing that.”
And that’s my point. We need to draw the line here. This far, and no further — no, Mister Politically Correct Liberal, you cannot give me an order to pretend ugly women are gorgeous, and gorgeous women have nothing special going for ’em. This is a catalyst of everything else that is going wrong…although, clearly, I lack the ability to explain it in a hundred words or less. It doesn’t matter. This shit’s all connected.
Let’s call it a “virtual burkha,” for that is what it is. Well, LAN ASTASLEM.
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“Virtual burkha,” indeed. The combination of Dress To Conceal, Women Is Victims and Let’s Pretend Women Are Powerful left me with the impression, when I lived around Berkeley in the latter ’70s-early ’80s, that I had inexplicably lost all interest in sex. Brrr.
You’re especially right-on about the cumulative effect of decades on the outward appearance of “liberals” in general, and “women” in particular. The old saw about “As a child you have the face you were born with; by the time you’re 40 you have the face you deserve” is nowhere more apparent than the physical aspect of middle-aged lefties.
Put more simply, “Beauty is only skin-deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.”
- rob | 04/18/2010 @ 10:02My theory is that although men do not in truth want children (I’ll just speak for everybody), men prefer the women who want children–who then trick them into liking children and other things. Women who want children are more attractive–not more beautiful–than women who do not, and the chasm keeps growing from there.
- jamzw | 04/18/2010 @ 10:03men do not in truth want children
At least you have the grace to admit you’re generalizing – not to mention projecing. The fault (as with most egregious over-simplifications these days) with statements like that is that they display the unexamined influence of “feminist” propaganda.
You know, “Men have no feelings,” which is code for “Men are no damned good.” Generations of boys have now been inculcated with the notion that caring is unmanly.
Not good.
- rob | 04/18/2010 @ 11:14Right. The feminist propaganda that feminist are not attractive got me. Duped again. Beauty is skin deep but feminism goes to the bone.
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- House of Eratosthenes | 04/19/2010 @ 07:24Harrison Bergeron died for our sins, baby.
- MiddleAgedKen | 04/19/2010 @ 07:35I dunno. I’m a big fan of the chilluns. Getcha Some, as Toby Keith put it.
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