I never thought I’d say this, but I love Star Jones.
Also in the video clip: Ann Coulter arguing that if you have a boyfriend, you aren’t anorexic.
After listening to Coulter’s stupidity, it’s worth recognizing that when she makes light of anorexia, she’s talking about women like Isabelle Caro. Good on Caro for speaking out about her illness.
You know, regardless of what Star Jones says to her, by having her on the show and giving her more free publicity and opportunities to be hateful, I do think that she is part of the problem. Anyone who gives Ann Coulter a microphone is part of the problem.
*Sigh* I always find it depressing how comments on Ann Coulter inevitably devolve into:
1. Her being a transsexual.
2. Her not being pretty.
Jezebel is not a disappointment in this regard. Thank goodness for blog like this one, where I can expect a little less…ugly rhetoric from commenters. Ann Coulter’s professed beliefs give us more than enough to criticize, without resorting to woman-bashing.
In the words of the famous comedienne: “blerg.”
Agreed, Ari_El. And it’s not like there’s nothing substantive to criticize Coulter for.
OK, from the recent stuff she said, my mind is made about Ann Coulter : she’s not human, she’s an android specially designed by a mad scientist to produce bullshit. It’s the only explanation I can figure out.
Ann Coulter is, in fact, RoboCrap.
Ann Coulter is ugly, but it’s not a physical ugliness.
This is where people get confused — we still have this weird notion that pretty=virtuous and ugly=evil. So when you have someone who’s physically attractive and yet evil, the only thing people can think to do is insist that s/he is actually physically ugly, because otherwise it’s too much cultural dissonance.
I also like Star Jones. It’s nice to hear her speak without being continually condescended to, patronized and interrupted, since she got her own show!
I love how the only way a woman can be taken seriously as a conservative commentator is if she is willing to bash herself by saying things like “women are too stupid to vote.” Notice how men never have to male-bash to be taken seriously.
Absolutely. When people don’t feel like attacking someone’s arguments, what do they say? “You’re ugly, you have a small penis/small breasts, you can’t get laid.” As if that means they must be wrong.
I would like Ann Coulter to live a life where women didn’t have the vote and experience how fucking “fatastic” and “wonderful” it would be and how great our country would be. That fucktard wouldn’t even be allowed to speak, and if she were it’d only be to ask the men what they wanted for dinner. I fucking hate her.
Absolutely. When people don’t feel like attacking someone’s arguments, what do they say? “You’re ugly, you have a small penis/small breasts, you can’t get laid.” As if that means they must be wrong.
Or, alternatively, “You have nice big breasts and you’re pretty, you can’t possibly be right about feminism because men always treat you like a queen.” If someone wants to make you wrong, they can always find a way.
Shorter Ann: “I can’t be anorexic, because men chase me.”
Aw, geez. Fifteen years ago or so I was living in the Midwest, where I put on a lot of weight, mostly because of two things:
1. Winter’s a bear over there, and it’s hard to eat sensibly when you’re freezing, and
2. Men would insist on taking me out to dinner.
Seriously, over a period of maybe five years, I went up about three sizes, and I’m a short woman. The resulting effect was distressful, at least to me. Ultimately I got tired of being short-breathed and of always having to squeeze into clothes and took steps to drop the extra weight. Should I, instead, have said: “I can’t possibly be overweight, because men still chase me?”
Nope. Didn’t think so.
It goes without saying trailer, because the conservative line is against independent women and also idealizes/denies misogyny.
She’s sold her soul to make millions, like so many women have. A drug worn, beat down and desperate prostitute on a street corner has more ethical backbone than her I’m sure.