Friday, February 24, 2006
Reasonable Discourse In Our Modern Age
So, Ann Coulter speaks at a college, and one of the students asks if her fantasies about the broken and bruised bodies of Democrats may imply desire for a dictatorship. Her tactful, reasonable response?
"You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?"
Yes, because we gays and dictatorships go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Look at Hit- oops, uh, Stal- no, wait, Cast- damnit...
So, what does the head of the College Republicans have to say about this... illuminating statement?
"I think the guy could have been more respectful to her," he said. "I mean, we already know that she was going to be controversial and she was just saying what people were thinking. If you are going to talk like you are gay, then Ann Coulter is going to call you gay. Of course, she said it in a spiteful tone, but it was expected."
The emphasis is mine. Now, by this logic, there are so many things I could call Ann Coulter, ranging from "gushing sewer" to "the demoniac flutes of the pipers of Azathoth." I'd just like to focus on the fact that the head of the College Republicans not only didn't apologize for the fact that Coulter responded to his question with a homophobic insult, but laid the blame at the asker's feet for "talk[ing] like [he was] gay." (And how did he do that? Did he lisp?)
Once upon a time, people would feel the slightest tinge of disgust if their heroes acted like name-baiting, prejorative-using asshats. Now they make excuses for them. I believe that in ten years, Coulter will be sacrificing kittens to Gozer on stage to extend the blasphemous glamours that make people think she's anything other than a man-sized preying mantis, and her defenders will blame the kittens for having such tasty souls.
"You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?"
Yes, because we gays and dictatorships go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Look at Hit- oops, uh, Stal- no, wait, Cast- damnit...
So, what does the head of the College Republicans have to say about this... illuminating statement?
"I think the guy could have been more respectful to her," he said. "I mean, we already know that she was going to be controversial and she was just saying what people were thinking. If you are going to talk like you are gay, then Ann Coulter is going to call you gay. Of course, she said it in a spiteful tone, but it was expected."
The emphasis is mine. Now, by this logic, there are so many things I could call Ann Coulter, ranging from "gushing sewer" to "the demoniac flutes of the pipers of Azathoth." I'd just like to focus on the fact that the head of the College Republicans not only didn't apologize for the fact that Coulter responded to his question with a homophobic insult, but laid the blame at the asker's feet for "talk[ing] like [he was] gay." (And how did he do that? Did he lisp?)
Once upon a time, people would feel the slightest tinge of disgust if their heroes acted like name-baiting, prejorative-using asshats. Now they make excuses for them. I believe that in ten years, Coulter will be sacrificing kittens to Gozer on stage to extend the blasphemous glamours that make people think she's anything other than a man-sized preying mantis, and her defenders will blame the kittens for having such tasty souls.
