Culture Warriors category archive
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 3
I’ve mentioned before my opinion that persons who complain about “political correctness” are part of the “have cake, eat it too” crowd: They want to be permitted to be nasty without penalty.
Historiann sums it up quite nicely. A snippet:
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You couldn’t make this stuff up.
I think Henry Mancini* wrote a song about just these sorts of antics:
When we played our crusade,
We were like children posing . . . .
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*I apologize to the memory of Mancini, who was a marvelous composer whose music I cherish, but, really, I couldn’t resist.
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. . . or be held in contemptible court.
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Which reminds me of the story about the fellow who was drowsing through a sermon about the Ten Commandments. When the preacher got to the Seventh Commandment, he perked up and said to himself, “Ah, that’s where I left my umbrella . . . .”
Bill Maher and Jennifer Granholm Attempt To Explain Women To a Republican, but He Ain’t Having None of It 0
Politically Correcting the Record 0
Reg Henry calls out the meanness behind those who whine about “political correctness:
What bunk. As most of us learned in kindergarten as our first practical experience of free speech, when you say something mean, some kid is likely to whack you with a wooden block. In the real world, then as now, reacting to negative language is not necessarily political. Oftentimes, it is just insensitivity and bad manners inviting a reaction.
Soldiering On 0
At the San Jose Mercury-News, William Endicott contemplates the culture warriors and is not impressed.
Cut from the Same Mold 0
Jessica Valenti reflects on the Republican debate and points out that, when it comes to Republicans, watch what they do, not what they say.
For one glorious moment in time, this group of men – who between them have enacted legislation curbing women’s rights, voted against equal pay, and shamed women for having sex – can puff up their chests and play make-believe that they are women’s caped crusaders and true equality warriors.
But at least Donald Trump is upfront about his sexism. The other candidates are just blowing smoke up our … skirts.
“The Tokens of Virginity” 0
Apparently Deuteronomy 22:17 is all the rage at Virginia Wesleyan College (which is, by the way, about two miles down the road thataway).
Virginia Wesleyan College wants the woman, identified as “Jane Doe,” to name any individual she has had sexual intercourse with “at any time” and provide them with names of all her boyfriends since August 2012, when she was allegedly raped by a male classmate.
Scrooged America 0
Warning: Language.
A Question of Decorum 0
What does one wear to a shotgun wedding: A morning suit or hunter’s orange?
Reverse Linguistic Spin Zone 0
Teabagger brings new meaning to the word “beard.”
