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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 02:54 PM
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You see children, this is why you don't do drugs.
Ann Coulter's latest article.


Everyone makes mistakes, especially young people, but the outpouring of support for the victims and their families is obscuring what ought to be a flashing neon warning for potential future victims.

Whenever a gun is used in a crime, there are never-ending news stories about how dangerous guns are. But these girls go out alone, late at night, drunk off their butts, and there's nary a peep about the dangers of drunk women on their own in public. It's their "right."

Yes, of course no one "deserves" to die for a mistake. Or to be raped or falsely accused of rape for a mistake. I have always been unabashedly anti-murder, anti-rape and anti-false accusation -- and I don't care who knows about it!

But these statements would roll off the tongue more easily in a world that so much as tacitly acknowledged that all these messy turns of fate followed behavior that your mother could have told you was tacky.

Yes Ann, it's common knowledge that every party that one goes to, every bar that one drinks at, and every frat house that has a kegger bash in this country, ends up with a woman getting raped, kidnapped, or murdered. It's amazing to me that there are even any women left in the world because they can't even go to happy hour after work without disappearing, never to be seen again.
:eyes:

The BIG problem that I have with this article (besides it being written by Coulter that is), is that she absolutely cheapens the horrible, criminal of a woman getting raped. She actually implies, with a sort of "hand waving you away" arrogance, that when it happens, it is just an everyday occurrence, and they were probably just asking for it anyway.




And if you are a girl in Aruba or New York City, among the best ways to avoid being the victim of a horrible crime is to not get drunk in public or go off in a car with men you just met.

Ann, do us all a favor, and just advocate putting women in burkas, and making it a stoning offense for them to be out in public without a male relative. The way you use fear mongering, as an to attempt to get your point across, is beyond sad, it is despicable.

I for one, being the perfect saint that I am, have never gotten drunk in an unfamiliar place, or attended a rowdy party. I mean, how could I with all those thugs and criminals that frequent those kinds of places? That would be suicide.



And of course, she has to give her obligatory grab at the Clenis:

and every Democrat who voted for Bill Clinton feels the need to defend duplicity, adultery, lying about adultery, sexual harassment, rape, perjury, obstruction of justice, kicking the can of global Islamo-fascism down the road for eight years and so on.

You have finally crossed over Ann. You have crossed over that fine line of rejection, and stepped into revulsion. But revulsion, while it may sound cruel, is not all bad mind you. It actually serves a useful purpose; it clues you to the fact that you're just on the wrong path. It's a subtle hint that you really need to find some socially beneficial role to fulfill.

You have indeed found that role. It's the role of the pariah. If you don't know what that really means Ann, I'll supply you with an analogy. A pariah, is the person that the kids point at, giving them that extra urge to do well in school, stay off drugs, and the example of what NOT to do, so that they can make something of themselves so they don't end up like you.

So thanks, you are actually fulfilling a vital service to our society.












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MamaBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 02:58 PM
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1. Old, tired, sexist crap
By staying sober, women are assumed to be able to control each and every element of their environment and thereby protect themselves from all manner of harm.

While at the same time being attractive, cheeerful, compliant and available.

I thought we had this damn conversation --- about 30 years ago!

Coulter can kiss my fat ass, as soon as I can find an appropriate barrier!

Jeez.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:00 PM
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2. Coulter is on my IGNORE list.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:04 PM
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6. she's also on my "You're dead to me" list.
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marbuc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:01 PM
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3. She would be happy to realize
that she shares this mindset with fundamentalist muslims. Let's outfit our women with burkas and force them to abide by a strict curfew. That way our men will not be tempted to commit rape. :sarcasm:
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MamaBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:02 PM
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4. Right, and if they do ...
We can execute the WOMAN for the crime. :grr:
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The Witch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:24 PM
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13. No! No! Ann believes in democracy!
She believes women should voluntarily CHOOSE to wear burkas and abide by a strict curfew! And if they don't, well, then, it's their choice...
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:03 PM
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5. Whenever I read vile spew from Coulter or Beck or Savage or
Lamebawl, my first impulse is to despise them and everything they stand for. Then I pull back a little, think about it, and realize that as awful as it is to see them, it would be much, much worse to BE them.

That's when compassion comes in. How awful to go through life with that horrible attitude. I think we can all imagine what kind of life she's going to have when her looks go (and she's already looking both stringy and shopworn); what kind of life they'll all have when the world moves on to some other sociopolitical nuttiness and they're simply out of fashion.

I can't help it. Every time they open their mouths and more toads hop out, I feel a little sorrier for them.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:07 PM
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7. Hell - let all those 3 timers your out - types out of jail Ann - if that
is really the way you feel.

Talk to the hand cause the rest of me knows you intend nothing but to move attention off the creeps who run you.. like a fillie.. at the race track of publishing!!!
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LeftNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:07 PM
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8. Ann is a terrible writer.
Viewpoints aside. She is crap. Her viewpoints make her writing shittier. BUt she is crap either way.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:11 PM
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9. Yes, and mommas don't forget to tell your baby boys...
don't go to parties where there are drunken slut women, or you might get falsley accused of rape.
:sarcasm:


:banghead:
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politicaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:14 PM
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10. Vital service to society? Like a pile of crap helps a tree perhaps...
I call this a "Momentary lapse of incompetence".

And she's been so consistent at being a failed lawyer turned whorish political firebrand up to this point it really is a disappointment to see her fake having a soul.
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Dunvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:23 PM
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11. Isn't this coming from a woman that likes her martinis and wears her skirt
...hemmed just short of her pelvis?

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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:24 PM
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12. So is she talking about W or not?
I won't click the link, but that seems the most obvious living example of brain damage due to the excesses of drug and alcohol abuse.
Other than Coulter's own drug-ravaged brain and body, of course.
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Dunvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:34 PM
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14. Did your mother tell YOU dressing like you do is tacky, Coulter?
Edited on Fri Apr-21-06 03:35 PM by Dunvegan


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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 03:40 PM
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15. Ann Coulter makes me sick. BUT...
she does have a point about not going off in a car with a bunch of guys you just met.

I'm not blaming the victim of any crime for their victimization - but wouldn't we all advise our daughters not to get into a car with a strange man/men in an effort to help them avoid victimization?
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