While single herself, the always belligerent Ann Coulter seems to have a bit of a grudge against other single women — single mothers in particular. In a recent appearance on Fox and Friends, Coulter complained that the Democrats — and the media — were paying too much attention to what women think, and suggested that Romney could win the election without appealing to women — or at least to single women.
Ronald Reagan managed to win two landslides without winning the women’s vote, but it is as you say, it’s striking, it’s not the women’s vote generically, it is the single women’s vote. And that’s because single women look to the government to be their husbands and give them, you know, prenatal care, and preschool care, and kindergarten care, and school lunches.
Huh. Well, this might answer the central question in that National Review piece we discussed yesterday — why Romney isn’t getting 100% support from women, even though he’s the sort of rich guy alpha that evolutionary psychologists suggest is inherently appealing to “hypergamous” (i.e., golddigging) women. Turns out these women are already married to Obama!
The notion of government as a “substitute husband” is, of course, an old Men’s Rights trope. Warren Farrell devoted roughly a third of his Myth of Male Power — the 1993 tome from which the Men’sRights movement still gets most of its talking points — to explicating this particular theme. And it’s one that MRAs today return to again and again and again and again. (The notion of the “husband state” also, not coincidentally, played a role in the sprawling manifesto of mass killer Anders Breivik.)
As for Coulter, this isn’t the first time she’s singled out the single ladies. In a recent appearance on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox, Coulter went after Obama and the Democrats for focusing on what she called the “stupid single women” vote. “And I would just say to stupid single women voters,” she added,
your husband will not be able to pay you child support. If Obamacare goes through and Obama is re-elected, you are talking about the total destruction of wealth in America. It is the end of America as we know it. …
Great, you will get free contraception; you won’t have to pay a $10 co-pay, but it will be the end of America. Think about that!
Coulter is so miffed that single women don’t like Republicans that she’d be willing to give up her own right to vote if it means these “stupid … women” wouldn’t be allowed to vote either. As she once famously explained,
If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it’s the party of women and ‘We’ll pay for health care and tuition and day care — and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?’
Here’s a much more appealing take on single women. Well, honestly, it’s as terrifying as it is entertaining:
Here she is explaining the reasoning behind that quote:
But it’s okay because it’s only a pipe dream!
I guess she’s right, though; the only reason George W. Bush increased government spending so much more than Obama has (reduced the deficit) is because women voted for him.
It’s not a wasteland! Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go tend to the brahmin.
@2-D Man
A typical commute to uni for me:
I can’t even fathom a woman would honestly believe all this shit she is spouting, my mind is boggled.
I’m married and my child went to kindergarten and is on the free lunch program. We also used the Parents as Teachers program. I know a lot of married couples who rely on these services, not that they are any better than single parents that use these services, though. Anyone who needs the help should get it, and with no shame. The people who attack these services for children are the ones that should be ashamed.
I’m married and my child went to kindergarten and is on the free lunch program. We also used the Parents as Teachers program. I know a lot of married couples who rely on these services, not that they are any better than single parents that use these services, though. Anyone who needs the help should get it, and with no shame. The people who attack these services for children are the ones that should be ashamed.
What’s good for the individual is not necessarily good for society.
lowquacks: And this is how get out of your apartment in the morning.
What’s good for the individual is not necessarily good for society.
Edit: Blockquoted.
So what is your alternative tmason? Let her kids starve to death?
She’s full of shit at every conceivable level. She’s a working single woman without children, the complete antithesis of everything she herself claims women *should* be. By her own reckoning, she should be married and at home with her children. Instead, she makes money by claiming that every other woman should be married and at home with their children. She can take a flying fuck for all I care, but she better not use contraception, because that’s just for whores.
Regarding her bullshit premise that “wealth” is at risk in this country, the numbers are crystal clear. The middle class is near to being destroyed while the rich continue to funnel every red cent into their own pockets. The wealthy continue to get richer while the middle class and the poor only get poorer.
Tmason, fixing the blockquotes doesn’t make you look like less of an asshole.
Name-calling came out quick there. Let’s try an actual argument.
@Katz
My apartment?
@Tmason
How exactly is society supporting children and their parents bad for it? Please don’t let this be one of those Freakonomics breed-out-the-poor things.
She’s the Token Best Friend. She says all the sexist things that male wingnuts couldn’t get away with saying, and her existence allows them to say “We’re not sexist”. Herman Cain was popular for the same reason.
You first.
Are you talking about how it’s bad for society that rich people hide their money away into numbered bank accounts to cheat on their taxes? Yes, I agree that it’s good for them but bad for society.
Free school lunches for poor kids, on the other hand, is good for society.
Why does Ann Coulter think I need “pre-natal care” or any of that? I’m an adult.
Oh, I see. She’s talking about single mothers. Well obviously our nation is too poor to feed the children of women who aren’t married. Perhaps we should put their children in the mines? Just think of how much ore those little fingers can get at!
For chrissakes, Ann, you do realize that married mothers need pre-natal care etc., and that school lunches aren’t provided just for kids of single mothers? I’m single and childless and I know this.
Let’s try an actual argument.
OK. Tmason, based on your insinuation that underprivileged children should suffer for the good of society, I conclude that you are an asshole.
Leading questions, eh? Let’s first focus on the actual argument at hand. Why do single women tend to lean more towards the Democrtatic vote while married women tend to vote Republican?
There was no such insinuation. Nice try at projection.
@Tmason, trickle down economics is a sham. It ends up with a few people having all of the money while everyone else starves.
The way to keep an economy strong is with percolate up economics. Give money to poor people, and they will spend it, keeping it circulating in the economy ,and raising the standard of living for everyone. A raising tide lifts all boats.
Again with leading questions and assumptions. One item at a time. Let’s focus on the proven fact that single women tend to vote for Dems while Married women tend to vote for Republicans. Why?
What argument? Your one liner statement was hardly an argument. You just insisted her kids should have starved.
Uhh moving goalposts much? State your point dude or go fuck off. I am not going to answer unrelated questions. You first sweet cheeks.
This just tells me that the DNC needs to do more outreach to married women as well as single women. With Republicans like Akin around, though, the RNC itself is going to turn more married women into liberals.
Depends on the distribution mechanism. But you cannot assume economics and culture are not intertwined. One drives the other.