Outstanding, Roy. The amount of time and effort these dweebs put into trying to figure out how to turn the clock back to the 1950s is amazing.
And the insufficient-white-babies fixation on the Right is a perennial obsession for them. But I also remember how their heads exploded a couple of months ago when a photo of Harry Styles in an evening gown was on the cover of Vogue. Someone should tell conservatives that if Harry Styles agreed to impregnate all the women who wanted him to, their obsessive worry about below-replacement-level white babies would be over. The guy can get it and the dress doesn’t hurt his chances one bit. He isn’t as hot as Tom Holland dancing in fishnet stockings to Rihanna’s “Umbrella” (nothing else is that hot) but he’s a close runner-up.
But I guess they’d consider that a slippery slope that lands on Lil Nas X, or would make Jesus cry, or something.
Yep. Their concept of the importance of rigid gender roles is intertwined with their concept of the need for racial hierarchy. It’s why you can look high and low and be hard pressed to find a misogynist who isn’t racist, and vise versa (and homophobic, of course). They exist, but it’s more common for the two to go hand in hand.
"The amount of time and effort these dweebs put into trying to figure out how to turn the clock back to the 1950s is amazing."
And yet, the modern GOP is the result of efforts begun in the 1950s so, you know, they never really left the 50s at their core so, in that sense, nothing to return to since they never left.
I'm sure they'll have people back to makin' babies just as soon as Griswold is overturned and the State can engage Amazon to monitor everyone's sexual activities. It's going to be a tricky needle to thread, but I'm sure Roberts and the gang can do it: Finding a case that allows them to rule that there is no right to privacy under the Constitution--no right to privacy for individual citizens, but an absolute right to privacy for corporations.
I would note for the record the suggestion that Mrs. Douthat may have produced a child or two in the course of researching her new book, "Mom Genes", Simon & Schuster, to be released on April 27 https://books.google.com/books/about/Mom_Genes.html (Advance publicity doesn't tell us, but drops broad hints that she may have been personally involved in motherhood at some point in her life: "Part scientific odyssey, part memoir, Mom Genes weaves the latest research with Abigail Tucker’s personal experiences to create a delightful, surprising, and poignant portrait of motherhood. It’s vital reading for anyone who has ever wondered what rocks the hand that rocks the cradle.") Whether Mr. Douthat was involved I am unwilling to guess.
Also, at the site, the book is described as part "momoir". Furthermore, she has written a book about kitties called "The Lion in the Living Room" that actually sounds interesting. Huh. Maybe she's the brains.
And an underpaid nanny, I'll be bound. The (few) pictures I've seen of her seem to indicate that she's more familiar with sangria than Similac. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Yep, both nannies and sangria are fine. Two full time writers had better have at least one nanny plus some sitters. But the "underpaid" part I would find loathsome. Let's hope.
Evil. And lovely. The mythology you've woven is come to a foine pattern, boyo
Cherce!
Outstanding, Roy. The amount of time and effort these dweebs put into trying to figure out how to turn the clock back to the 1950s is amazing.
And the insufficient-white-babies fixation on the Right is a perennial obsession for them. But I also remember how their heads exploded a couple of months ago when a photo of Harry Styles in an evening gown was on the cover of Vogue. Someone should tell conservatives that if Harry Styles agreed to impregnate all the women who wanted him to, their obsessive worry about below-replacement-level white babies would be over. The guy can get it and the dress doesn’t hurt his chances one bit. He isn’t as hot as Tom Holland dancing in fishnet stockings to Rihanna’s “Umbrella” (nothing else is that hot) but he’s a close runner-up.
But I guess they’d consider that a slippery slope that lands on Lil Nas X, or would make Jesus cry, or something.
*1850s*. Where men were men, women were pregnant and "colored" were slaves.
Yep. Their concept of the importance of rigid gender roles is intertwined with their concept of the need for racial hierarchy. It’s why you can look high and low and be hard pressed to find a misogynist who isn’t racist, and vise versa (and homophobic, of course). They exist, but it’s more common for the two to go hand in hand.
Cishet patriarchy is white supremacy's lure -- it's why Ice Cube or Lil Wayne stumped for Cheetoh.
"The amount of time and effort these dweebs put into trying to figure out how to turn the clock back to the 1950s is amazing."
And yet, the modern GOP is the result of efforts begun in the 1950s so, you know, they never really left the 50s at their core so, in that sense, nothing to return to since they never left.
I'm sure they'll have people back to makin' babies just as soon as Griswold is overturned and the State can engage Amazon to monitor everyone's sexual activities. It's going to be a tricky needle to thread, but I'm sure Roberts and the gang can do it: Finding a case that allows them to rule that there is no right to privacy under the Constitution--no right to privacy for individual citizens, but an absolute right to privacy for corporations.
A handgun for every Amurican, an embryo for every womb.
I would note for the record the suggestion that Mrs. Douthat may have produced a child or two in the course of researching her new book, "Mom Genes", Simon & Schuster, to be released on April 27 https://books.google.com/books/about/Mom_Genes.html (Advance publicity doesn't tell us, but drops broad hints that she may have been personally involved in motherhood at some point in her life: "Part scientific odyssey, part memoir, Mom Genes weaves the latest research with Abigail Tucker’s personal experiences to create a delightful, surprising, and poignant portrait of motherhood. It’s vital reading for anyone who has ever wondered what rocks the hand that rocks the cradle.") Whether Mr. Douthat was involved I am unwilling to guess.
According to abigailtucker.com, they have four (4) children in their household.
Also, at the site, the book is described as part "momoir". Furthermore, she has written a book about kitties called "The Lion in the Living Room" that actually sounds interesting. Huh. Maybe she's the brains.
“Momoir” needs to be sewn into a burlap sack with a rooster, a monkey, an asp, and a “Live, Laugh, Love” plaque, and fired into the sun.
might just as well tie mr douthat into that sack. or was he the monkey?
My incredibly stupid security software told me not to go there.
Maybe it was just trying to protect you from "momoir".
I don't appreciate it enough.
And an underpaid nanny, I'll be bound. The (few) pictures I've seen of her seem to indicate that she's more familiar with sangria than Similac. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Yep, both nannies and sangria are fine. Two full time writers had better have at least one nanny plus some sitters. But the "underpaid" part I would find loathsome. Let's hope.
Wiki notes no children. Maybe they're all in purdah... ah, I see his Times bio lists three kids. Well, we'll fix it in the galleys.
Or right here! It's the internet, after all.
Children in Central America hear Douthat’s distress and rush to his aid. Who knew Nueve York Tiempo was so popular in Ecuador, Honduras, etc.?
"You get too ironical when you’ve had a snootful." Eugene O'Neill parody gold.
Joyce would have loved it too, I think. And Flann O'Brien. This is one for the ages.
"Mrs. Noonan". Perfect.
This should, nay MUST, be made into a Carol Burnett Show sketch.
Also, I love how Bill Bennett plays himself more Irish than Cú Chulainn.
I once heard an interview with someone who knew him when he dated...Janis Joplin.(Yup..)
Asked if they thought Bennett smoked weed then, replied “Well, he certainly didn’t smoke enough...”
Wait -- when *Bennett* dated Janis Joplin?
Yup: that was the claim.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cowboy-in-the-capital-drug-czar-bill-bennett-45472/
Well, Leonard claimed that she always preferred handsome men -- apparently she made at least two exceptions...
If anyone cares, Cardinal Raymond Burke says Pres. Biden isn’t a “Real Catholic”.
I don’t know if y’all noticed the Claremont Institute dweeb announcing that a Majority of American aren’t “Real Americans “..
Maybe these arbiters of Reality can go bother some alternate universe..
They’re certainly full of papal bull.
Wonderful! All it needs is a jeering audience throwing popcorn.
Not a word about child care or health care in that column, was there?
Oh. I thought you meant Dreher tried it as a Chi-Lite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBC5BUh3BM
Hi Roy - you know I love everything you write and I have not much to say these days bcuz Joe Biden has made everythin borying. Yah
But this guy? I roll through Molalla ever so often wned when I do if I see em I'm punch is fucking face.
Goddamn mother fucker.
https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2021/03/oregon-deputys-flouting-of-bobcat-trapping-rules-may-lead-to-loss-of-police-certification.html