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[tags]that one, Barack Obama, John McCain, asshats[/tags]
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Category Archives: Asshat of the Day
Whoever smelt it, delt it
According to the author of this article in Time Magazine, women don’t just disagree with Palin’s nomination, we “hate” and “loathe” her, and it’s not because of her politics.
Our aversion to Palin as VP is not due to her lack of experience. It’s not because she’s anti-choice and pro-gun. Nothing to do with her evangelical creationism, homophobia, enthusiasm for banning books, or terrible environmental record.
No, Belinda Luscombe says our “hatred” for Palin ain’t about nuthin’ intellektual like that. It’s because Palin is “too pretty,” “too confident,” and “might embarass us” if people think she got the job because she’s a woman. 1
In other words, we’re just a bunch of jealous, catty bitches who never grew up.
There is nothing like a woman running for a high-profile public office to expose just how little credit people give women. And how lazy thinking is very much alive and well in this country. And how such thinking masquerades as journalism and has no problem getting published, and thus legitimized, in major media.
In this article, Luscombe epitomizes the very stereotype she’s blathering about,2 but she’s obviously too dumb to see her own hypocrisy.
To wit: What could be stupider than to go on a rant about how women are so unsupportive of other women (implying, of course, that you, the ranter, are a pillar unto them), and then make this kind of statement:
The fact of the matter is, once a female decides it’s over with another female, it’s like an end-stage marriage. No matter how seemingly benign, every attribute becomes an affront: the hair, the voice, the husband, the moose-shooting, the glasses, the big family, the making rape victims pay for their own rape test kits. [emphasis mine]
Drips with woman-love, doesn’t it?
Dumb as a post, I tell you.
[tags]Sarah Palin, asshats, faux journalism[/tags]
- Kevin adds, “I’m surprised she didn’t add ‘and she has bigger tits than me’ to that list.” Word. [↩]
- Just like all the women who say proudly that they “have more guy friends than women friends because they never identified with those mean and catty women,” which of course is itself an inherently mean and catty statement. [↩]
It only hurts when I laugh
I had a whole post written in my head about what a sad state of affairs it is when the Presidency has become such a puppet position that they don’t even care who they have as Vice President because if McCain does become President and dies (probably of cancer, which he’s had four times and at 72 years of age, is not unlikely to have again) it won’t matter one gold-plated tie tack that the Vice is, astonishingly, even more unqualified for the presidency than George W. Bush so they just pick whomever they think is most likely to win the Asshat Vote which they apparently believe belongs to women.
Then I saw this campaign button for McCain’s Flying Circus. Please god, let it be true.
[tags]Monty Python, John McCain, Sarah Palin, asshats[/tags]
The Assassination of Artistic Credibility
Dear poseur,
Your installation is not about art.
It’s about pretension, desperation, and narcissism.
And you’re not even creative enough to hide it, regurgitating the oldest cocktail bar pseudo-intellectual line in the book to the Washington Post:
“My mission as an artist is to raise dialogue and conversation about substantive things,” he says, staring through arty glasses that did not have any lenses.
Nice try. Your “mission” is to get attention in the highly competitive New York art world, and judging by the press you’re getting, everybody knows it.
I hope “pathetic laughing stock” is substantive enough for you.
Uppity
[tags]bullshit, Barack Obama, art[/tags]
Get your dirty laundry out of my feminism
So Rebecca Walker thinks Alice Walker sucked ass as a parent, and it’s all because of feminism.
If what Rebecca has to say about Alice is true, then yes indeed, Alice flunks Parenting 101. But its petty and ignorant to blame one individual’s cluelessness on feminism.
You can’t throw a stick these days without hitting a mother who lets their kid have sex at 13, leaves them with relatives, ignores school events, makes them go shopping for clothes alone, etc. etc. It’s called neglect, not feminism. And what do we call it when fathers do these same things? I’m pretty sure nobody clucks their tongues at how feminism has destroyed their paternal instincts.
If Alice truly believes motherhood “enslaves” women, as Rebecca claims she does, well, that’s really sad for both of them. But Rebecca should know by now that if anything, feminism has liberated women from the enslavement of lack of choice.
Rebecca goes on in this article about how she loves being everything Alice was not, now that she’s an “adult.” Problem is, adults don’t publish long, whiny rants about their evil mothers. That’s what vindictive, emotionally stunted adult-wannabes do. Actual adults get therapy.
And adults don’t make self-serving generalizations about ideologies, in effect blaming many for the faults of one.
[tags]Alice Walker, Rebecca Walker, feminism[/tags]
Today in What A Beeyatch
Proving that anti-feminist women are hypocritical in more ways than one, last week conservative TV talking head Laura Asshat Ingraham mocked Brett Favre for being “a woman” because he cried during is goodbye-to-the-NFL press conference.
Laura’s probably very proud to be both misogynist and misandrist at the same time. Don’t fence her in!
And before I forget – Today in Double Standards…
Most of the comments on the blogs I’ve read about Asshat Ingraham’s remarks are from people vehemently defending Favre’s right to cry all he wants.
Which is great, except why is it that in the court of public opinion, Brett should be allowed to cry all he wants about his career — but Hilary’s pilloried for (almost) crying about hers? Things that make you go hmmm…
[tags]Brett Favre, Hilary Clinton, Laura Ingraham, misogyny, misandry, double standards[/tags]
Mean People Suck
Retard Of The Day goes to the thief who’s juvenile behavior resulted in this sign, stuck to the refrigerator in my workplace lunch room.1
The last time I ate someone else’s food on the sly, I was twenty years old and living with a bunch of other poverty-stricken college-age girls. One night, in a moment of hypoglycemic delirium, I ate someone else’s saved day-old take-out.
When you live with others, eating their food (or wearing their clothes or using their toothbrush) without permission is grounds for tarring-and-feathering. Successful cohabitation depends on everyone’s ability to be a Big Person and follow basic rules of consideration.
I don’t remember exactly what I ate that night, but I am still picking tar out of my hair.
It’s been twenty years since then and now I bring my lunch, eat out, or go hungry. I expect others in the group living situation to do the same. They are all adults who have plenty of money. (And if they don’t, they’re old enough to know they can’t make others suffer for their meth habit.)
Maybe this wouldn’t bug me so much if it hadn’t happened before. A few months ago, Lach‘s lunch got stolen, which I found very bizarre – it’s not like she had it catered from 13 Coins or something.
I liked the suggestion from the anonymous guy in the elevator who heard us complaining about it that day. He recommended that we put a sign on the door that said: “Random food in this refrigerator has been poisoned. Steal at your own risk.”
I am so very tempted. Fight immaturity with immaturity, right?
- You can’t see it very well in the photo, but there’s a little “Yeah!” scribbled bottom right of the red text. Solidarity in the workplace! [↩]
Please Don’t Feed the Fat People
It’s a three-way tie for the highly competitive title of Retard Of The Day:
Congratulations to the three legislators from Mississippi who came up with House Bill No. 282 which would make it a crime to serve food to an obese person.
You know, I’m not real, er, big on the so-called “Fat Acceptance” movement, which I think is misguided most of the time.1 But I would cheerfully help them squash the air out of the public servants who thought up this ignorant waste of government paper.
[tags]House Bill No. 282, obesity, idiots in politics[/tags]
- Among other things, their literature says “all eating disorders begin with a diet.” Puh-leez. [↩]
Almighty God: 1, Adopted Babies: Zero
Any fucktard can be a judge, but only believers can be adoptive parents.
In an extraordinary decision, Judge Camarata denied the Burkes’ right to the child because of their lack of belief in a Supreme Being. Despite the Burkes’ “high moral and ethical standards,” he said, the New Jersey state constitution declares that “no person shall be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshiping Almighty God in a manner agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience.”
Bitch, please.
[tags]adoption, theocracy as government, poor New Jersey[/tags]
Erin Burnett: the inspiration for new blog category “Retard Of The Day”
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