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WhoIsNumberNone

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Thu Dec 12, 2013, 11:38 AM Dec 2013

Sam Seder: Daily Caller Breast Ogling Writer Speaks!



From RAW Story:

I was going to ignore Patrick Howley, the Daily Caller twerp who wrote this paranoid piece claiming liberals want to ban men from even looking at women’s bodies. It was a highly unoriginal piece of misogynist propaganda, complete with all the tropes common to defenses of street harassment: Claiming it’s a “compliment”, conflating open leering with surreptitious glances, and, of course, claiming that women actually like being harassed by strangers pretending to compliment them, an activity that Howley sounds awfully familiar with. But then Howley had to go on Sam Seder’s show and dig himself in even deeper, and okay, I’ll take the bait.

Starting around 25:00, they start debating whether or not women like being harassed on the street. Howley sticks to his “it’s a compliment” line, though he wavers a bit when Sam asks if he’s saying that women like having some dude yell “nice tits” at them. But it’s his line and he’s sticking to it, which leads to this exchange:

SAM: Have you seen a lot of women….that have said, “Thank god Patrick has stuck up for us, because we were getting worried that all this ogling was going to go away?” I mean, where are these women that are supporting this? Because you’re talking to women now. I’m sure you want to tell us something you can link to.

PATRICK:
Well, I believe in Nixon’s idea of a “silent majority”. And I think a lot of people, women and men, are tired of an activist media deciding what is and what is not offensive. I think a lot of women met their significant other* through a situation that would be defined by the progressive movement as offensive.


Thanks for clearing that up, Patrick.
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Sam Seder: Daily Caller Breast Ogling Writer Speaks! (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2013 OP
Too funny Plucketeer Dec 2013 #1
This is the modern conservative movement. White men whining about how they're Chakab Dec 2013 #2
 

Chakab

(1,727 posts)
2. This is the modern conservative movement. White men whining about how they're
Thu Dec 12, 2013, 03:15 PM
Dec 2013

oppressed because they can't harass women and make racist jokes without people telling them to fuck off.

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