Comments on: Time to create that “fuckwit college columnist” tag

By: Dani

Dani — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:14:52 +0000

I informed my husband that, thanks to this author’s wisdom, I’m now onto him: he’s merely using me for my passivity, domesticity, childrearing, coital love, piety, and fertility. He’s been laughing for five minutes straight.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:25:41 +0000

The author claims to have radically changed his views since his freshman year. I’m wondering who is responsible for his change of heart, and what brought it about. I thought college educations were supposed to expand one’s horizons, but perhaps that’s only my experience.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:43:38 +0000

You know, I usually don’t post just to add “Holy God”, but…

Holy God.

Believe it or not, I’m actually having a similar conversation with a coworker of mine. He’s a Libertarian, I’m a liberal (obvs), and we’re making a go at that trying-to-have-a-meaningful-political-debate-with-someone-whose-views-contradict-yours thing. It was going well, until last week he busted out with this little gem: “Women are biologically predisposed to liking tea parties, and men are biologically predisposed to liking fast, loud cars”. I was — and still am — too stunned to continue our conversation in a way that would allow us to still work together.

As my husband so aptly observed when I told him that night, “I wonder what we were biologically predisposed to before cars were invented”.

By: Kristen from MA

Kristen from MA — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:20:45 +0000

I haven’t gone and read the whole piece, since what zuzu quoted here made me queasy. But after initially finding this guy to be pathetic and sad, as I started getting creeped out. I think this guy has the potential for violence. I’m especially disturbed that someone 20 years old has thought (maybe obsessed is a better word) so much about about womens clothing and the idea of ‘whorification.’

(I do wonder, though, how he feels about men in kilts.)

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:05:21 +0000

I saw this first at Kindly Pog Mo Thoin, where I wondered what he was getting at with this: “Equality of dignity does not equal equality of status.” It seems to me that for “dignity” to be meaningful, it has to be something recognized by other people, which would actually correlate it with status.

We talked a lot about this in my Literature of Human Rights class at KU: that what made it revolutionary to portray members of oppressed groups with dignity in fiction was the fact that the reader has to think of the character as a full human being, something capable of having dignity.

This goofball seems to go the completely opposite route, treating “dignity” as a sort of booby prize he can award to everyone who fails to qualify for full human status.

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:43:06 +0000

Let’s make a deal, Ryan: If you let women wear pants, they’ll let you keep your stuffed shirt.

By: meggygurl

meggygurl — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:21:41 +0000

Really? I mean, REALLY? I spent an hour reading all the comments to that crap, and all I can say is REALLY?

He makes me sad for the world.

By: K.T. Slager

K.T. Slager — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:16:19 +0000

Listen, you hideous fucker, men and women can wear pants and women can wear pants and men can wear skirts and women can wear skirts because they are just articles of clothing. Quite using big words to try and make yourself sound smart when all you’re really doing is contradicting yourself within single sentences. “Beauty is objective, except it isn’t!” Auuuugh. No. No, no, no no no. Shut up and go away. IT IS TOO EARLY FOR THIS SHIT.

By: Harmony

Harmony — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:43:05 +0000

I’m a Women and Gender Studies major at the University of Texas, home of the Daily Texan. I just wanted to say, there are plenty of feminists here, despite what his article might imply, and we are working our pants clothed butts off to get this kind of horse shit out of the paper, out of the school, and out of the minds of the students. Sigh, seems there is no shortage of work to do.

By: Clevelandchick

Clevelandchick — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:53:54 +0000

Dollars to donuts this kid has never gotten laid and since he published this Archie Bunker swill in his college newspaper he blew any chance of that happening till way after graduation. He doesn’t like the way jeans look on a woman’s body? There is noooo way this guy is straight.

When I first read this I really thought it might be a joke. Him complaining he doesn’t get his daily requirement of ‘femininity’ cuz all them scary feminists insist on pushing pants on society. But I see that it was serious. If he were my kid that would be the last quarter or semester of higher learning I’d agree to pay for because it obviously hasn’t done him much good.

Can’t wait till he graduates and has a pants-suit wearing female boss.