What, did he never get his PhD? Only the Doctor of Desire gets tenure, sucker.
Maybe they should just make a bunch of poor friends, and only let THEM come over, so they'll be super impressed.
Oh, sorry, I thought I was clearer: I don't have a problem with Christianity. I have a problem with, "that group of Christians who think anything that interferes with their hegemonic domination of American culture is "persecution"." Maybe those guys don't really mean what they're saying, but you know, a bunch of them do. Like, there are a for real a bunch of guys who are believers in hegemonic, crusading Christianity, and for whom this is more than a cynical tool to get re-elected.
Also, man, this wouldn't even be so infuriating if these dumb assholes didn't keep WRITING about it, and acting like spending a thousand dollars a month on "wardrobe refreshies" isn't going to make someone who's never had a whole thousand dollars to spend on clothes in the first place want to fucking murder them in the FACE.
"Then there's the stuff that fills our houses-the calibre of which is the subject of intense, unspoken competition among my peers and neighbours."
Oh, you mean all the junk that you buy after you've paid for your living expenses? Life is challenging for you, I guess.
Hey, here's a question: what do you get if you win the unspoken competition? What happens if you lose? Do they throw you out of your condo, or something?
Correct, I do realize that. As I believe my comment makes clear, I just don't really give a shit about it. I mean, how pathetic a victory for Christianity is this?
"Hooray Christians! The PA State Legislature has declared 2012 the Year of the Bible! And also thanked the turkey for its relevance to American history. And the Smiths family in Intercourse for being married for over 50 years. It is a very important and legitimate resolution."
See, I don't think this really is about Republicans trying to present Obama as waging a war on religion. The Blunt Amendment pretty clearly suggests that the Catholic Church's hysterics are allowing them to be used to essentially roll back labor laws in the United States.
"Oh, oh, yeah, we definitely can't have people do anything that offends their conscience! Let's make all of these laws optional! So, now, I'm an Objectivist, and paying people minimum wage offends my conscience, so..."
It won't be struck down in court, it doesn't DO anything. There's nothing to take it to court over.
The thing is -- and I don't want to let any of these shitheads off the hook, because I am an atheist and I am exhausted with that group of Christians who think anything that interferes with their hegemonic domination of American culture is "persecution" -- it came up as a non-binding, non-controversial resolution: that's shit like, "The Pennsylvania Senate Congratulates Jeremy Lin on a successful game of basketball", or "The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania acknowledges the turkey's significance to American history." Just a bunch of dumb crap that doesn't do or mean anything, all together on a long list that gets handed to them.
And on the one hand, no, Pennsylvania (which is the state I live in, for real, these are "my" lawmakers) should not be voting on stupid bullshit like that. But on the other hand, I'm technically paying all these guys, and I don't really want to have to pay money for them to sit down and read this shit and then -- HEAVEN FUCKING FORFEND -- actually spend any time at the legislature DEBATING whether or not 2012 should be the year of the Bible.
Wait, hang on. What makes him not an actual feminist?
Well, but is hairy ass-crack concomitant with cleavage?
Showing thigh isn't the same thing as showing balls. You should ask whether or not it would constitute sexual harassment (or at least inappropriate workplace attire) for a woman to wear tight pants that clearly revealed the contours of her vulva.
I think I would be more inclined to consider possibly one day maybe taking MRAs seriously, if their positions weren't invariably intertwined with this alpha-beta male sexual-social hierarchy philosophy.
"Beta" males aren't angry because they aren't successful and women don't want to sleep with them because of their lack of economic good fortune; they're angry because they identify with a social hierarchy that ranks a person's worth according to their sexual success.
Well, this is kind of true, but the thing about most men (which I can speak about authoritatively!) is that "sexy" is just a byword for "how much I want to have sex with her." It's not an independent attribute that has anything really, to do with the woman at all, but has to do with what the guy looking at her thinks (my experience also tells me is that this is not what most women think of when they think of "sexy", and I think probably for good reason). So "pretty" is almost definitely about how a woman looks, and "hot" mostly is (though is also sometimes just a synonym for "sexy"), but "sexy" is inevitably a descriptor that's the result of a combination of features: what does the woman look like, how is she dressed, how drunk am I, &c.
So, between this and the birth control thing, the Catholic Church's policy is, for real, "We just shouldn't have to follow any laws we don't like"?
Yeah, but Sarandon conceived Eva Amurri there, what, twenty years ago? There's stairs are packed now because everyone is there hoping to get glimpse of someone boning.
Well, no, the real question is whether or not a religious organization should be able to exempt itself from Federal protections because it doesn't like them.
Man, the Catholic Church is still really missing those days when every king had to be anointed by the Pope, huh?
Oh dang, she totally has Theater Kid face.
Hahahah, get it? They were just saying "knickers", but YOU thought that they were saying something else! That makes YOU the racist!
Because that's definitely how racism works if you're a complete fucking bonehead.
Well, Patton was also kind of a huge racist, though.
