I think this belongs here in GD re: Coulter's "faggot" comment

[mrreowwr_kittty]

Analysis of Coulter's remarks and why ALL of us should take this seriously and act on it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=221&topic_id=49697&mesg_id=49697

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Reading about Mo Dowd:

Her comments are telling, in light of other comments she has made about not having a man in her life. I would say that she may have a tendency to make the run off screaming over the hill.

I don't think there are any men that might satisfy her personal view of masculinity.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

3. I can't stand her

I don't know how much, if anything, she had to do with Gore losing in 2000 (yeah, I know he didn't lose but he should have whupped Bush by at least 10%) but I think she personally bears a lot of blame for tarnishing his image back then. Why the hell did she have to project her daddy issues or whatever onto that election?

And then I guess she wrote some book fairly recently about whether or not men are necessary or something that was supposed to be some definitive statement about modern American relationships. Yeah, just what we need, another affluent woman assuming her own experience in the DC-Manhattan cocktail circuit bears any resemblance to the lives of the rest of us. :eyes:

[Change has come]

2. I think you're right

from the article

snip

Ann Coulter's bigotry and hostility, her public fantasies about violence against Democrats, progressives, and journalists -- and those of countless others like her -- demand more attention, not less. They illustrate the irrational anger that has long driven and sustained the conservative movement. (Those who insist on believing, against all available evidence, that the left is driven more by anger than the right would do well to remember that, during the 2000 Florida recount fiasco, it was the Republicans who rioted, not the Democrats.) But those who applaud Coulter can't win or hold power on their own -- there just aren't enough angry, hate-filled voters in the country. They need the support of more rational and reasonable people, many of whom would be appalled -- and no longer supportive -- if the media showed them the true nature of the extremists they support.

But the most interesting -- and important -- thing about Coulter's hate speech isn't that it is representative the of attitudes of her ideological fellow travelers.

It is the similarity between what Ann Coulter was trying to do by calling John Edwards a "faggot" and what countless "respectable" members of the "MSM" do every day.

Coulter's comments, of course, weren't about convincing people that John Edwards is gay. They were about trying to strip him of his masculinity, to feminize him -- and in doing so take advantage of the cultural stereotypes that equate strength with men and weakness with women to portray Edwards as "wussy" (her word)....

[GoneOffShore]

4. Generally I don't like Dowd

Not that she's not a good writer. She is. But I find that sometimes she wishes to be a mover and shaker instead of a commentator.

This piece, however certainly puts her in a better light. Her conclusions here are absolutely correct.

[countmyvote4real]

5. We (our culture) are more fucked than we are enlightened.

No essay here. Just my observation and judgment.