Comments on: Lefty men can still be full of macho sexist shit (celeb edition)

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:06:46 +0000

You don’t have to defend her, flea. (I don’t like her either, so it’s a bipartisan Coulter-disdain.)

But I don’t think that “liberal men” make jokes about sexual abuse. Men with really bad values do. For some reason, at least some men with really bad values feel the need to camouflage themselves by pretending to be liberal.

By: flea

flea — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:26:36 +0000

I wish liberal men would stop with the hilarious jokes about sexually assaulting Ann Coulter. I loathe being put in the position where I have to defend her. And I will defend her, even though I know full well she’d have no problem letting my ass swing in the wind.

But as Portia once said, “I don’t have to like her to want her to be free.”

By: Elena

Elena — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:10:30 +0000

There was a big to-do on Pandagon recently when a male poster said something about b-ffing Coulter and got called on it. He was confused about why women were “defending” Coulter, but eventually he seemed to get it. My two cents is that if a man can understand why it is inappropriate to attack Justice Clarence Thomas by calling him the N-word, then he can transpose this knowledge to why it is inappropiate to talk about raping Ann Coulter, let alone actually do it to her effigy. Creepy.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:58:45 +0000

This would make it interesting.

http://1290whio.com/info/alec.html

By: sparkane

sparkane — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:37:32 +0000

Just for Rob.

http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=8&t=2437

(That was the first link to a google search with the terms: “cabin boy” gay.)

By: rob

rob — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:39:31 +0000

Unless there are connotations I don’t know about, it seems like calling him a cabin boy is calling him a servant, not a homosexual.

Off topic: I love the word asshat, where did it come from?

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:35:47 +0000

Thanks for posting about Sean Penn’s comment. I read about it in Salon’s “The Fix” and it really bothered me then.

By: gengwall

gengwall — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:29:36 +0000

I thought Alec left the country. I sure need to keep up my entertainment…err…polititainment news.

By: silverside

silverside — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:47:11 +0000

Alec Baldwin, despite his “lefty” credentials, is also closely linked to the Fathers Rights movement, which tends to be pretty conservative.

By: Les

Les — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:39:52 +0000

You see a lot of this crap in comments on Artios and other mainstream lefty blogs. I think that some of this has to do with how very right wing the political spectrum is in the US. By most measures, democrats are very center right, if not just right wing while the republicans are far right. So people supporting the democrats can also be pretty right wing. And sexism and right wing politics go hand in hand.

I find this kind of thinking to be very frustrating. Every time somebody writes “Anne Coulter is so ugly.” “Anne Coulter is a man.” “Manne Coulter has an adams apple!” etc etc, it is contrary to left wing political goals. Every time somebody judges her by her looks and uses an ad hominem attack against her, it advances her goals. She argues for a world where women are judged by her looks and her detractors are often willing to give her that. Again, I think this is because most democrats aren’t left at all, they’re just not as far right as Bush. And maybe they only care because their own wages are falling and they’re totally happy with supremacy of their race, class and sex. They’re happy living in a rape culture and “violating” Coulter. It’s fucked up.

The US is in desperate need of a real left wing.

(I have my own response to Coulter)

By: feminist blogs

feminist blogs — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

getting right to the heart of the matter. Do I agree with everything Andrea Dworkin stood for? Well, I don’t know since I’ve read so little of her work. But I intend to change that situation. The first book of hers I’m going to read is Life and Death.Lefty men can still be full of macho sexist shit (celeb edition) Hollywood activist SEAN PENN has a plastic doll of conservative US columnist ANN COULTER that he likes to abuse when angry. The Oscar-winner actor has hated Coulter ever since she blacklisted his director father LEO PENN in her book TREASON. And he

By: Liberal Blogosphere

Liberal Blogosphere — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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By: The Uncommon Man

The Uncommon Man — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

it and being it are too different things” (which links this post, in some ways, to the post on the 11th. “Lefty” celebrities may be able to speak-out publicly about liberal issues, but it doesn’t mean that they completely “get it”. via Alas, A Blog -Lefty Men Can Still Be Full of Macho Sexist Shit

By: feminist blogs

feminist blogs — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

right to the heart of the matter. Do I agree with everything Andrea Dworkin stood for? Well, I don’t know since I’ve read so little of her work. But I intend to change that situation. The first book of hers I’m going to read is Life and Death.Lefty men can still be full of macho sexist shit (celeb edition) Hollywood activist SEAN PENN has a plastic doll of conservative US columnist ANN COULTER that he likes to abuse when angry. The Oscar-winner actor has hated Coulter ever since she blacklisted his director father LEO PENN in her book TREASON. And he