GoatSeeGuy posted:

SedanChair posted:

Her solution is to dress in a manner tantamount to a balding man purchasing a Corvette.

Ah Pook posted:

I'm not sure how I feel about Sarah Palin dressing up like the white trash mom from Sons of Anarchy.

meristem posted:

You know, even if it's Sarah Palin, you could stop judging her for the way she looks when she's not in a professional situation... Just a suggestion? Personally, I just hope I'll be able to maintain a good figure as well as she does at that age.

Michael Taranto posted:

Winerip notes that between 2005 and 2010, "more than 60 percent of claims involving sexual violence handled by United Educators"--an insurance company owned by member schools--"involved young women who were so drunk they had no clear memory of the assault." We know from Sgt. Cournoyer that the accused young men typically are drinking to excess, too. What is called the problem of "sexual assault" on campus is in large part a problem of reckless alcohol consumption, by men and women alike. (Based on our reporting, the same is true in the military, at least in the enlisted and company-grade officer ranks.)

Which points to a limitation of the drunk-driving analogy. If two drunk drivers are in a collision, one doesn't determine fault on the basis of demographic details such as each driver's sex. But when two drunken college students "collide," the male one is almost always presumed to be at fault. His diminished capacity owing to alcohol is not a mitigating factor, but her diminished capacity is an aggravating factor for him.

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But as Mac Donald notes, contemporary feminists "embrace the Victorian conceit of delicate female vulnerability while leaving out the sexual modesty that once accompanied it." That they do all this in the name of equality is downright Orwellian.

skaboomizzy posted:

Hey guys, The Wall Street Journal would like to remind you that there's no such thing as a war on women.

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What is called the problem of "sexual assault" on campus

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is in large part a problem of reckless alcohol consumption, by men and women alike

skaboomizzy posted:

Hey guys, The Wall Street Journal would like to remind you that there's no such thing as a war on women.

Notorious QIG posted:

Why the gently caress is the Wall Street Journal opining about the nature of sexual assault on college campuses?

Van Kraken posted:

I love this picture.

Liberals:

• Senior Advisor to the President
  
• Activist
  
• Secretary of State/US Senator
  
• Supreme Court Justice
  
• UC President/Secretary of Homeland Security/Governor of Arizona/Attorney General of Arizona
  
• Activist/Journalist
  
• Activist
  
• US Senator/Chairman of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence/Chairman of the International Narcotics Control Caucus/Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration/Mayor of San Francisco
  
• Comedian/Actress
  
• Comedian/Activist
  

Conservatives:

• Actress
  
• Political commentator
  
• Podcaster
  
• News anchor
  
• Columnist/Speechwriter
  
• Columnist/Author
  
• Governor of Alaska/Mayor of Wasilla
  
• Journalist
  
• Writer
  
• Talk radio host
  

Shelly Roche doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. The liberals in positions of power outnumber the conservatives 5-to-1 if you're being generous and counting Sarah Palin. (You shouldn't be generous.)

Darkman Fanpage posted:

There's also the fact that the majority of the liberal women depicted happen to be in their 50s or older, while the majority of conservative women are in their late-20s to early 40s. Turns out age does a number on one's looks!

Ashley Herzog also doesn't have a Wikipedia page.

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Poverty and unemployment are at near-record levels, the economy is stalled, and a record 47 million Americans are on food stamps, yet aides for first lady Michelle Obama’s tweeted out a picture of her two dogs apparently dining at a table laid with crystal and china.

“Bone appétit!,” the aides added to the insensitive tweet, using the language of France’s queen Marie Antoinette, who was executed by radicals in 1793.

Bone appétit! pic.twitter.com/vuXRoKEnGY
— FLOTUS (@FLOTUS) February 11, 2014

One dog appears to be wearing a jeweled necklace. The other is wearing a red ribbon.

Obama’s media courtiers applauded the ostentatious display of canine luxury. “Bo And Sunny Obama Get Decked Out For The State Dinner And It’s Pretty Adorable,” says the headline on an article at the Huffington Post.

In 1980, Ronald Reagan’s wife, Nancy, was relentlessly criticized in the press after she ordered a new set of china for the White House during the painful recession created under Democratic President Jimmy Carter.

The china was bought with donated funds, yet it prompted so much media controversy that it was not used until February 1982. “Nancy Reagan’s new china set survived its White House debut intact. Nary a $48 cup was broken,” declared a snarky AP article.

The palace dogs tweet was quickly praised by Obama’s followers.

“So cute! Aww!” said a tweet from Erica.

“OMG SO CUTE,” said Jessica.

Others reactions were jaundiced. “#Boneghazi,” said a tweet from SeaWorldSammy. “Don’t laugh. That will be the @FoxNews headliner tomorrow,” he added.

Intel&Sebastian posted:

They also apparently dine on high tech invisible food not available to you the common man

Bo's bling necklace is kind of tacky though, gotta give them that.

Jagged Jim posted:

Only filthy poors eat visible food, my good man.

Intel&Sebastian posted:

Yeah but that's understandable. There's a lot of messages and explicit imagery that are antithetical to a RW mindset in Wall-E. The message of the LEGO movie is pretty much "Feel free to be creative in your own stupid way" and the imagery is so removed from reality that it's a stretch to say it has a message in itself other than "you can do goddamn anything with LEGOs".

In fact I could interpret the ending as a conservative leaning moral if I viewed it a certain way.

Spacedad posted:

This also flies in the face of a lot of bullshit you often hear from right wingers praising the 'common sense' of rural people and the like. While the pragmatism of the country survival might have been true at one time, these days it's city life where the strongest sense of pragmatic reality exists. Country life has increasingly become a bastion of delusion and disconnection from reality.

Radish posted:

The real fight against changing the name is that the team is one of the most lucrative in the NFL and the brand is a big part of that. Dan Snyder doesn't give a poo poo about tradition or whatever but it's a nice line to use since he doesn't want to lose money if whatever team that replaces the Redskins isn't as marketable.

skaboomizzy posted:

Hey guys, The Wall Street Journal would like to remind you that there's no such thing as a war on women.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

Ashley Herzog also doesn't have a Wikipedia page.

TheGreyGhost posted:

If you skipped the second link you really shouldn't.

Infomaniac posted:

Why in the world id SE Cupp treated as a serious person

Zeroisanumber posted:

I'm trying to imagine my reaction if the premise of that weird book turned out to be true.

Guy: Science has recently found out that some of the first settlers of North America were white people from Europe, but later waves of immigrants from Asia interbred with them or wiped them out wholesale.

Me: Oh. OK. Neat, I guess.

Rygar201 posted:

Sarah Cupp is ostensibly an atheist but spends a lot of airtime bemoaning American atheists and talking about how much netter Christians are. So that's part of the reason conservatives like her.

Edit: Also when S. E. Cupp is said aloud it sounds like A C Cup which is amusing to people with juvenile senses of humour

Radish posted:

It's funny since you'd think the dude who complained a political cartoon where he was drawn as a devil was anti-Semitic would be a little more sensitive to racial iconography.