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Ann Coulter channels Men’s Rightsers in her latest attack on single women

All you single ladies get off my lawn!

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:

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Tulgey Logger
Tulgey Logger
12 years ago

This troll is hilariously stupid. Providing food for children right now – hmm, I don’t see how that could possibly benefit them in the long term.

Again with the falsehood. When did I say school lunch shouldn’t be provided?

Dense as a neutron star.

Reynardine
Reynardine
12 years ago

Eff, Mann is ugly.

Linds
12 years ago

Zie reminds me a little of SunshineMary. “Don’t read into my words that things which clearly are intended to be read into my words!”

Drashizu
12 years ago

Gee, Tmason. You really like to say smart-sounding things that utterly lack content, don’t you?

Snowy
Snowy
12 years ago

No that’s your argument. I am responded to the post.

Are you sure? Maybe you should read it again.

aworldanonymous
12 years ago

Reynardine, gtfo with your gender policing bullshit.

thebionicmommy
thebionicmommy
12 years ago

That’s what you were talking about. If you’d like to discuss; I’d rather we enable the caregivers to provide the lunch for their children versus school lunch. That’s not the way it is now; caregivers are too dependent on the school because of various pressures faced in society.

Isn’t it interesting that we work harder and harder to pay someone else for things that we probably could do better ourselves? In our case no can take care of the children because of their careers, etc.

No, this started when I talked about how even though I have the “perfect nuclear family”, my child still gets free lunch and breakfast at school. Then you told me

What’s good for the individual is not necessarily good for society.

which you were implying that by enrolling my child in the lunch program, my actions are bad for society. So stop playing games and changing the subject. Either own what you said or clarify your position.

katz
12 years ago

5 1/2: 17 1/2

Reynardine, I really wish you wouldn’t go off on who is ugly and/or looks like a man, even if you really think so.

jumbofisch
jumbofisch
12 years ago

No one gives a fuck if she is ugly reynardine, why are you putting her worth based on her looks?

Linds
12 years ago

@Reynardine
Who is Mann? I see no one named that in this conversation, even if anyone;s physical appearance were germane to the argument.

jumbofisch
jumbofisch
12 years ago

When did I say school lunch shouldn’t be provided?

That’s what you were talking about. If you’d like to discuss; I’d rather we enable the caregivers to provide the lunch for their children versus school lunch. That’s not the way it is now; caregivers are too dependent on the school because of various pressures faced in society.

Tmason
Tmason
12 years ago

That depends on what you define as a “social service”. Also, the article was pretty clear that polling indicates that married women (statistically, I believe, likely to be older women and therefore already likely to be more conservative) are attracted to Republican “smaller government” talking points.

That doesn’t mean they don’t benefit from social services, it means they don’t recognize or acknowledge that they do so. Married women, after all, benefit from child tax credits, home mortgage credits and other assorted things that aren’t touted regularly as a government service but ARE.

Never said they didn’t benefit. Read again; I said they have “less of a need”.

Also, there is a difference between credits and full fledged programs. Again, I am not against these services provided now; I am against there not being a plan in the long term to (1) help get people off these programs and (2) to reduce the societal need for these programs.

Snowy
Snowy
12 years ago

Eff, Mann is ugly.

Charmed I’m sure, Reynardine. But yeah, keep doubling down on the transmisogyny since you obviously seem to get a real kick out of it.

katz
12 years ago

^^Should I count that as a wank or should I split it?

drashizu
12 years ago

It’s pretty clear to me that there is never going to be a good choice between political parties in this country, but I prefer crappy and not-as-crappy to crappy and equally-crappy. Someone said something to me recently that I found really interesting, too: people who vote Republican for economic reasons despite the fact that the Republican party has no interest whatsoever in social justice for underprivileged groups (like women and minorities) are basically announcing that they think the economy is more important than human rights.

Tmason
Tmason
12 years ago

@jumbofisch

When did I say school lunch shouldn’t be provided?

That’s what you were talking about. If you’d like to discuss; I’d rather we enable the caregivers to provide the lunch for their children versus school lunch. That’s not the way it is now; caregivers are too dependent on the school because of various pressures faced in society.

So you’re telling me that you can’t differentiate between someone saying there is too much of a need for something versus someone saying let them starve?

katz
12 years ago

Kinda want to split it and get back to whole numbers (6:18).

ShadetheDruid
ShadetheDruid
12 years ago

Again, I am not against these services provided now; I am against there not being a plan in the long term to (1) help get people off these programs and (2) to reduce the societal need for these programs.

Why are you here telling us this like we’re going to disagree? Go tell it to the people in charge.

cloudiah
12 years ago

Wow. First things first:

Reynardine, gtfo with your gender policing bullshit.

Seconded! I mean, WTF Reynardine?!?!

aworldanonymous
12 years ago

I’d split it, the half wank in your stats is kind of starting to bother me.

jumbofisch
jumbofisch
12 years ago

I am against there not being a plan in the long term to (1) help get people off these programs and (2) to reduce the societal need for these programs.

If its fine then why did you tell bionicmommy her getting assistance was bad for society without knowing if she got off those programs or not. Are you saying you assumed stuff about her now Mr.don’t assume stuff about me!

Gametime
Gametime
12 years ago

So, basically, Tmason, you entered the conversation with an intentionally vague and unhelpful comment, got defensive and whiny when people called you out on the most obvious reading, and are now baffled that we couldn’t immediately discern your positions without you stating them.

Why the fuck are you even arguing with us? Do you just get a kick out of being dense?

thebionicmommy
thebionicmommy
12 years ago

Hey, katz, what do the numbers mean? Are they are predicted time until troll meltdown?

drashizu
12 years ago

Or, rather, that their own wealth is more important than human rights, because I can’t see how the last 12 years of presidents have shown Republicans to be good at managing other people’s money.

katz
12 years ago

It’s the ratio of how many comments he’s made that actually say anything versus how many comments he’s made complaining about how we’re totally misrepresenting him and stuff.

Currently 6:19.

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