BoBo's Slut-Shaming is Tedious-And this guy is everywhere in the media. What a mind! What a star!

[kpete]

BoBo's Slut-Shaming is Tedious

by BooMan
Fri Mar 18th, 2011 at 01:03:59 PM EST
........ David Brooks can dress up his call for chastity all he wants, but he's really just wistfully wishing he could impose a nerdish Categorical Imperative on the world so he could feel like less of a loser.

As practical advice, he's probably right that you shouldn't hop in bed with someone you're interested in long-term. But that's not what he's talking about when he says this:

Impulsive people might sleep with each other faster and also behave in other ways that damage relationships. On the other hand, if you took impulsive people and surrounded them in a culture that strongly discouraged bedding down on the first date, would this by itself improve relationship quality?

My guess is it would, at least a little, since strict social mores can reduce the effects of impulsive temperaments. The manners maketh the man—or the woman.http://brooks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/form-and-follow-through/

What he's talking about is slut-shaming. And he's motivated by the realization that even though there are plenty of sluts in the world, none of them are lining up to pleasure him. So, no one else should have a casual sexual encounter without suffering the effects of a strict and shaming culture coming down on them with a "tsk, tsk" or worse (a good stoning, perhaps?).

And this guy is everywhere in the media. What a mind! What a star!
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/3/18/13359/2478

[msongs]

1. this is a country swamped with christians and their morals - look where THAT has gotten us lol nt

[wtmusic]

2. Reduce the effects of impulsive temperaments, or internalize them? nt

[cliffordu]

3. OK - what if I carefully plan to rut like bunnies???

[MH1]

4. so the ad at the bottom of the page for 'Dancing with the Stars'

has me ROFL after reading this post.

It's just perfect.

What a crazy culture we already live in.

[Major Hogwash]

5. Hahaha -- he couldn't get laid with a fistful of $50 dollar bills on Ladies night!!

He couldn't get laid in a morgue!!!

LoL

I've never heard of slut-shaming before.
I'll have to try it out on my sister!

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[roguevalley]

6. manners are fine and self respect is fine but I wouldn't learn it from

him. He probably has a few hos in his closet and he's a repig. Nothing a repig says to me matters.

What an ass. Prohibition didn't work. His party's bullshitting doesn't work. Must have run out of topics or he found out his wife is sleeping around. Why else a self righteous column like this?

[xchrom]

7. THIS is where brooks tiny mind has turned? oy. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

8. I dunno--Should a Reptilian Congressman sleep

with his underage aide right away in the office or wait until he can get the kid into his Brethren-owned apartment?

[Ikonoklast]

9. Did he just admit to never getting laid?

No Fun For Me...NO FUN FOR YOU!!