unfuckingbelievable!? Top Conservative Publication: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The School??

[trailmonkee]

Seriously???

Top Conservative Publication: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The School


Victoria Soto, 27-year-old teacher killed while protecting her students.

If there were fewer women and more “male aggression” in Sandy Hook Elementary School, the massacre there never would have taken place, according to a contribution to a leading conservative magazine.

National Review, whose in-house editorial suggested Newtown was the price of the Second Amendment, published a piece on Wednesday from anti-feminist Charlotte Allen suggesting the reason the shooter was able to kill so many students was because Newtown was a “feminized setting:”

There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K–6 school), all the personnel — the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the “reading specialist” — were female. There didn’t even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza’s knees. Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers. The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, seemed to have performed bravely. According to reports, she activated the school’s public-address system and also lunged at Lanza, before he shot her to death. Some of the teachers managed to save all or some of their charges by rushing them into closets or bathrooms. But in general, a feminized setting is a setting in which helpless passivity is the norm. Male aggression can be a good thing, as in protecting the weak — but it has been forced out of the culture of elementary schools and the education schools that train their personnel. Think of what Sandy Hook might have been like if a couple of male teachers who had played high-school football, or even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys, had converged on Lanza.

more at Think Progress

[Mass]

1. "Charlotte Allen " Remember, she is the one who wrote this memorable column

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-allen-palin-for-president-20121118,0,1525685.story

[gollygee]

2. Male teachers who played football in high school

aren't immune to bullets. My God.

The stupid. I can't handle it.

[SharonAnn]

39. To have more males, teaching would have to pay more and be higher status.

[obamanut2012]

43. this

[Starry Messenger]

44. Whomp, there it is.

[hifiguy]

3. That truly beggars the imagination.

This has to be one of the ten stupidest things any human being has said since the dawn of time.

[bongbong]

10. Yet...

Something stupider will be said by a different repig tomorrow.

[Lizzie Poppet]

4. Wow, that is simply some industrial strength stupid right there.

But I suppose for someone completely inculcated in that sort of gender role stereotyping, it makes a certain sick sense...

[deutsey]

5. In awe of such breathtaking stupidity

[quinnox]

6. it deserves the "Ann Coulter" award

given for the most whacked out attention whoring opinion pieces imaginable.

[flakey_foont]

7. in addition to being unbelievably stupid,

this piece is so disrespectful, so insensitive...

do these people have no shame? no basic human decency??

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. Was that written by Al Bundy?

"don't mess with a guy who played high school football" - Al Bundy

[Lindsay]

9. I keep thinking

that one of these days we'll finally reach Peak Stupid.

But they keep proving me wrong.

[tblue]

11. That woman is an idiot.

Damn, I miss Keith Olbermann.

[KittyWampus]

12. I find this woman's thought process almost as hard to process as the carnage itself.

[Politicalboi]

13. It's a FACT children and parents

Feel safer when a woman is watching their child over a male. How many babysitters were male in your household? Not counting brothers who had to watch you. Did you need the manliness of a male to protect your kids while you and your wife go out to a movie and dinner.
Feminized my ass. Who does a child cry first for almost 100% of the time. MOMMY. And I don't even have kids. Most schools have women for teachers.

I wonder if this woman would drop her 2 year old off at an all male pre-school, and not have to think twice about it.

[Enrique]

14. their only hope is to keep the discussion moronic

a sane discussion of this tragedy is very likely to lead to gun control, and they can't risk that. This stupidity is deliberate.

[white_wolf]

15. Disgusting. The only decent thing National Review ever did was their Altas Shrugged review.

Which was like 50 years ago, but admittedly awesome. This, however, is disgusting. Sexist bullshit. I'm going to go write an angry email that will be ignored.

[mainer]

16. Yeah, and Aurora was a feminized setting too.

No manly men in that theater, no sirree.

Same with Fort Hood. No manly men anywhere!

[deutsey]

21. It's because of "teh gays" in the arts and military, doncha know?

[Agschmid]

47. Its always my peoples fault dontcha know n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. Not surprised really. The National Review isn't eveny worthy of being used as toilet paper.

What's scary is that more people are subscribing to this rag every year.

[Please proceed]

18. WRONG

K through 4th grade.

Male janitor ran through the school alerting everyone to the threat.

Female teachers and staff were heroic and saved lives.

This idiot can't even get the facts straight, someone is supposed to think she has a valid point?

Only a moron would read that crap and believe it, I guess the readers of that publication are morons.

[dsc]

19. on top of everything else

the school was k through 4 not k through 6.

[Journeyman]

20. I think males in an elementary school setting are a good thing. . .

there are plenty of young children all over the nation who need a stable adult male in their lives.

In a situation such as Sandy Hook, however, I suspect it would only have resulted in a male name listed among the dead. Probably alongside those of the huskier 12-year-olds.

[Berlum]

22. The republican War on Women (and and apparently children, too) is ongoing

[TwilightGardener]

23. Boy, that is nauseating. Those female teachers were just too

wimpy in the face of a hail of bullets, huh? I'm sure men would have done MUCH better as they were ambushed and shot to death...

[HooptieWagon]

24. Women teachers and staff died trying to protect their students.

The principal and another office staffer died while trying to stop an armed gunman. I don't see how the women at the school could be any more heroic. Charlotte Allen is the biggest horse's ass.

[BeyondGeography]

25. The women of Sandy Hook Elementary had dinosaur balls

The bravest people I ever heard of in my life. Charging into gunfire,shielding children from bullets, keeping 15 children calm and quiet while a gunman was raging in the next room.

Mary Ann Murphy; she hugged her autistic student Dylan while they both took bullets.

How nice that the author could bring herself to say that Principal Hochsprung "seemed" to have performed bravely. She told her colleagues to go hide while she confronted the killer, all 5'2" of her. They said afterward that they owe their lives to her.

I don't know, disgust isn't even the word.

[MFM008]

26. hatred of women continues

[Little Star]

27. omg, I went to the National Review page to read the whole article....

The ignorance is astounding.

[Beaverhausen]

35. nevermind. I found it.

thanks!

[Separation]

28. Just wait tomorrow it will be

That the Iranians are claiming that this was the work of Israeli Mossad hit squads....

[CanonRay]

29. Can these people get any more stupid?

[obamanut2012]

30. Charlotte Allen and nor Christine Hoff Sommers

Guessed the wrong arch conservative anti feminist.

Also, the janitor was there, and I believe he was an adult male, and one who acted as a "Paul Revere." Or rather, a Sybil Ludington.

[JackRiddler]

31. In an ironic fashion, she has a point.

Not intentionally, and of course in classic conservative-confusionist fashion she's got the facts exactly reversed.

Prima facie, women and children were the target. This may have primarily been a femicide.

[livefromsac]

32. Howbout Ninja teachers, 007 super spy teachers or Robocop?

Because a school full of foolball teachers just aint ridiculous enough

[ZombieHorde]

33. So dumb. nt

[Beaverhausen]

34. I'm sure there were more adults at that school than the 6 that were killed. Were none of them male?

Is this even true?

[JHB]

40. There was at very least the janitor, so no, it's not true.

For someone who claims to have pored over the building layout and timeline, she seems to have missed that large hole in her theory.

But then, The National Review is not in the fact business. It's in the "catapult the propaganda" sector.

[Quantess]

36. Yes, if only Chuck Norris ran the school, all the children would be safe.

Does anyone else think they watch too much Walker Texas Ranger?

[REP]

37. That sort of stupidity should cause great physical pain to Allen et alia

At least twice as much as it caused me just to read the excerpts.

[mainer]

38. And Fort Hood was feminized? That's why it got attacked?

Let's not even mention Virginia Tech.

[Aerows]

46. And it was a woman

that took two bullets stopping that creep. I don't know what she thinks bravery is, but there is nothing helplessly passive about charging a gunman so that others can live, and that's exactly what that principal did. She had balls of steel. A man couldn't have stopped those bullets with his body any better than she did.

[kestrel91316]

41. Funny....I was thinking that the school needed a lot LESS "male aggression"

that day.

[VOX]

42. It's the GUNS, assholes! Not godlessness, not "feminization"...

Not even mental illness -- it's the goddamn public health issues of guns and the culture of death that permeates our society.

More and more, it becomes clear that the greatest threat to our nation is the right wing -- with its gun fetishists, hyper religious zealots, anti-progress goons, cheap-labor barons, etc.

[Aerows]

45. Seemed to have performed bravely?

If that isn't bravery, I don't know what is. Helpless passivity? I'll tell you what Sandy Hook might have been like if there were some male teachers and some huskier boys. They'd be dead right along side of the women, and she would probably be concocting some other dumb story to push her agenda.

The most dangerous and brave person can be a woman protecting children. No amount of testosterone can stop a bullet. Charlotte Allen is clearly one of the dumbest women on the planet. I'd like to see her husband or sons, if she has any of them, stop a bullet because they have a penis. Actually, no, I wouldn't because I'm a better person that she is. What a horse's ass.

[Tx4obama]

48. The GOP 'War on Women' continues. n/t

[reformist2]

49. Sometimes I think conservatives love to be obnoxious a******s.

They do it deliberately.