Posted on 06/18/2006 2:24:55 AM PDT by Al Simmons
OK gang. Time to put the old iconoclastic part of the old thinker to work.
Yeah, I have enjoyed Ann's acidic barbs and laughed out loud at some of her more outrageous pronouncements over the years - though frankly, her act is getting a bit old with me - but that is not what this vanity is about.
I suspect that we are all secretly aware that her public persona displays more than a little evidence of exhibitionism and narcissism....the woman clearly has some personality issues. I personally think that she likely has a low sense of self-worth, which her public persona would appear to compensate for....
I would like to hear opinions on this topic from any FReepers who are psychologists or psychiatrists.
Oh, and in case some of you didn't get it, I'll repeat myself:
THIS VANITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MS. COULTER'S POLITICAL VIEWS. It is meant to provoke some thought about her method of promoting them (and herself).
I suspect that few Freepers would want their daughters to behave as Ms. Coulter does - both in terms of her outrageous rudeness and her never-married lifestyle.
I don't think it's appropriate to discuss Ann's Psychological profile unless we are a professional dealing with that.
I guess we can give an opinion of our personal opinion of her abrasive personality. She seems to either be a angry person needing anger management or it's all an act and that "act" is netting her milllions.
Ah. Another Darwinist waddles in to harrumph because Ann had the temerity to spit a verbal spitwad at his deity.
how about those that don't advocate it as the ONLY way to beat the libs, but just one tactic among many. ann happens to be the only culture warrior using that particular method. war requires a multiplicity of weapons and tactics. ann is one, others go about it differently.
I quite support civility and decent behavior.
AND
sometimes, in the trenches . . . a machine gun . . . aimed at some sensitive parts is an exceedingly fitting thing.
Christ Himself called the religious PhD's of His dusty pathed days
snakes, whited tombs, hypocrites . . . etc.
Not exactly afternoon tea language of that era.
It is example of a character DEFECT.
Trust me on this one. I speak from personal experience.
It's not that we need less daughters like Coulter, it's that we need MORE. For years I have thought that ALL libs are either Liars or Fools. It's not always easy to tell which is which, but they all fall into one category or the either.
And NEITHER category is going to be effected much by nicey-nicey, like Trent Lott or Bill Frist.
We not only need more daughters like Coulter, we also need more sons who will on occasion beat the stuffing out of a Liar or a Fool -- The ones protesting at Vet Funerals for example.
Ann - at her worst - can be smarmingly condescending which I presume you don't like in liberals.
Big difference there.
I seriously doubt that Ann can laugh at herself. She gets defensive very quickly.
I'm loathe to suggest rebellion, as well.
But I think Francis Schaeffer had a lot of wisdom in training his kids to be rebels against a cultural, political ethos that was rooted in hell as ours has been for many decades.
Certainly civil disobedience has merit in a lot of contexts.
And certainly political and social discourse fiercely against evil is more than fitting--it's approaching bare survival levels of importance, if not being well past such.
On that score, Ann's a Great General, in my book.
Just basic self-presevation.
i in no way claimed that it was strength of character, nor do i concede that ann's behavior is indicative of a character defect. i am merely pointing out that we all perceive things through the prism of our own experiences. your experiences with strong women will have colored your feelings towards strong women, in general, and ann, in particular.
"Perhaps you feel threatened by strong women ;-)"
Unfortunately, the opposite is true - I am drawn to them like a Moth to a flame - with the added feature being that they ALSO happen to have been 'violent femmes'.
So I have sworn off of them completely for the time being...
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Ahhhhh, the plot thickens.
Not !ALL! strong women are pathological. Some are.
There's a wide range, as there are with strong men. There are dozens of factors and facets, etiologies, motivations, conditioning factors etc.
I don't know how healthy Ann's father was nor her relationship with her father. If I had to guess, I'd guess from her public personna that her father was above average and her relationship with him above average. He was obviously not ideal or she'd not be sleeping around.
The esteemed Bots are up early this morning, aren't they.
Ahhhh, well, join the club. I thought I was the only resident conservative professional looney toon on FR. I can move over and make room.
Haven't read your home page. Guess I should. later.
You do believe in moral absolutes, don't you??
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As Christ Himself declared . . .
the LETTER OF THE LAW
KILLS.
The Spirit brings life, liberty.
The folks who advocate (as I did for a long time) that the only way to beat the libs is to adopt their tactics are in danger of becoming that which they dislike most...
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That is certainly a hazard well kept constantly in mind.
However, that does NOT equate to muffling our communications, dulling our blades and pulling our punches.
Ann Coulter is much smarter than average -- which can be a problem in meeting a mate and she grew up in a time and a place when cultural mores further limited the pool of potential match-ups.
Would you perfer your daughter to go the route of Madonna, her contemporary?
Laura Ingraham, who is Ann's age, is also not married, btw, and is probably glad for it considering the gutless loser she almost ended up with.
Ummm....I have to point out here that I don't think you've given us your qualifications for these types of pop-psych-analyses.
In fact, the very opposite is true from what you imply. I have NEVER even dated a woman who did not fit this profile. So not only do I not have an aversion to them, but they're basically the only ones who set off my radar.
So long as she was not physically and verbally violent her strength would be a huge plus in my book....
What is that?
A prerequisite for living a never-divorced lifestyle if you are very busy in a profession in which being successful likely means your spouse will have trouble adjusting (feels threatened, neglected, upstaged, whatever).
Face it, just from her public persona, from the demands of writing and public appearances, time away from home, etc., it would take a very special guy for her to be able to respect him and for the relationship to be stable. If she has not found that with someone, why marry?
If you choose not to believe a body of evidence amassed through hundreds of years of documented scientific inquiry because you (erroneously) believe that accepting it at face value would compromise your Faith, I would call that type of behavior foolish...
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imho, the same words could be written about the faith of scientism; evolution; etc.
And I still do not want to go round and round on the issue.
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