Lie Down With Strippers, Wake Up With Pleas [Ann Coulter]

HumanEventsOnline.com ^ | Apr 19, 2006 | Ann Coulter

[boryeulb]

However the Duke lacrosse rape case turns out, one lesson that absolutely will not be learned is this: You can severely reduce your chances of having a false accusation of rape leveled against you if you don't hire strange women to come to your house and take their clothes off for money.

Get Yours FREE!

Also, you can severely reduce your chances of being raped if you do not go to strange men's houses and take your clothes off for money. (Does anyone else detect a common thread here?)

And if you are a girl in Aruba or New York City, among the best ways to avoid being the victim of a horrible crime is to not get drunk in public or go off in a car with men you just met. While we're on the subject of things every 5-year-old should know, I also recommend against dousing yourself in gasoline and striking a match.

Everyone makes mistakes, especially young people, but the outpouring of support for the victims and their families is obscuring what ought to be a flashing neon warning for potential future victims.

Whenever a gun is used in a crime, there are never-ending news stories about how dangerous guns are. But these girls go out alone, late at night, drunk off their butts, and there's nary a peep about the dangers of drunk women on their own in public. It's their "right."

Yes, of course no one "deserves" to die for a mistake. Or to be raped or falsely accused of rape for a mistake. I have always been unabashedly anti-murder, anti-rape and anti-false accusation -- and I don't care who knows about it!

But these statements would roll off the tongue more easily in a world that so much as tacitly acknowledged that all these messy turns of fate followed behavior that your mother could have told you was tacky.

Not very long ago, all the precursor behavior in these cases would have been recognized as vulgar -- whether or not anyone ended up dead, raped or falsely accused of rape. But in a nation of people in constant terror of being perceived as "judgmental," I'm not sure most people do recognize that anymore.

It shouldn't be necessary to point out that girls shouldn't be bar-hopping alone or taking their clothes off in front of strangers, and that young men shouldn't be hiring strippers. But we live in a world of Bill Clinton, Paris Hilton, Howard Stern, Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman," Democratic fund-raisers at the Playboy Mansion and tax deductions for entertaining clients at strip clubs.

This is an age in which the expression "girls gone wild" is becoming a redundancy. So even as the bodies pile up, I don't think the message about integrity is getting through.

The liberal charge of "hypocrisy" has so permeated the public consciousness that no one is willing to condemn any behavior anymore, no matter how seedy. The unstated rule is: If you've done it, you can't ever criticize it -- a standard that would seem to repudiate the good works of the Rev. Franklin Graham, Malcolm X, Whittaker Chambers and St. Paul, among others.

Every woman who has had an abortion feels compelled to defend abortion for all women; every man who's ever been at a party with strippers thinks he has to defend all men who watch strippers; and every Democrat who voted for Bill Clinton feels the need to defend duplicity, adultery, lying about adultery, sexual harassment, rape, perjury, obstruction of justice, kicking the can of global Islamo-fascism down the road for eight years and so on.

This is crazy. (I can say that because I've never been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. Although I did test positive for "Olympic fever" once.)

In no area except morality would a sane person believe he can't criticize something stupid because he's done it. How about: If you've ever forgotten to fill up your car and run out of gas, you must forevermore defend a person's right to ignore the gas gauge. Or if you've ever forgotten to wear a coat in cold weather and caught a cold, henceforth you are obliged to encourage others not to dress appropriately in the winter.

This deep-seated societal fear of being accused of "hypocrisy" applies only to behavior touching on morals.

But we're all rotten sinners, incapable of redemption on our own. The liberal answer to sin is to say: I can never pay this back, so my argument will be I didn't do anything wrong.

The religion of peace's answer is: I've just beheaded an innocent man -- I'm off to meet Allah!

I don't know what the Jewish answer is, but I'm sure it's something other than, "therefore, what I did is no longer bad behavior" -- or the Talmud could be a lot shorter.

The Christian answer is: I can never pay this back, but luckily that Christ fellow has already paid my debt.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

"don't hire strange women to come to your house and take their clothes off for money. Get Yours FREE!"

AMEN!

[Grendel9]

That's our Annie!

[bill1952]

[somemoreequalthanothers]

I love how some people think she is "controversial" for stating the obvious.

[beaversmom]

Yeah Ann! I was thinking the same thing myself. Nobody deserves to be falsely accused of rape, but if you willingly role around in crap expect to get smelly, and dirty, and sick. These women that strip aren't high class women--duh! It's not shocking that some woman that could show her private parts to strange men might lie as well. I wouldn't put anything past them.

[Krodg]

The Christian answer is: I can never pay this back, but luckily that Christ fellow has already paid my debt

Ann, learn how to show respect.

[Uncle Hal]

Another winner by Ann. Happiness is reading Ann Coulter in FR on Wednesday afternoon.

[citizencon]

I thought fleas...

[Perdogg]

I disagree. There isn't a man, or woman, between the ages of 19 and 21 who has not seen strippers.

Come on Ann, lighten up!

[beaversmom]

Another thing I pointed out today on the Mona Charen beer commercial thread--being fiscally conservative and morally conservative go hand in hand. Anyone that is one but not the other, is half empty IMO.

[Spiff]

But we live in a world of Bill Clinton, Paris Hilton, Howard Stern, Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman," Democratic fund-raisers at the Playboy Mansion and tax deductions for entertaining clients at strip clubs.

Not to mention a world where the First Lady takes the microphone and jokes about going out with various female members of the Bush Administration to see male strippers at a club - and that the Vice President's wife got so wild at the strip joint that she has a new Secret Service codename. That, of course, just before joking about the President manually pleasuring a male horse.

[Yossarian]

The Christian answer is: I can never pay this back, but luckily that Christ fellow has already paid my debt

Ann, learn how to show respect.

I don't think she's being disprespectful. Unrepentant people come in many different flavors, including "Christians". I've seen some of these so-called followers of Christ use this pass-off, in one way or another.

Remember Billy Clinton showing up for Sunday Service with that big, big Bible in his hands? Some people are just like that.

[Spiff]

I disagree. There isn't a man, or woman, between the ages of 19 and 21 who has not seen strippers.

And that makes it all right. And those who did see strippers between the ages of 19 and 21 should never, ever criticize strippers or those who pay to see them!? Isn't that Ann's point?

[KoRn]

Dead on!

[beaversmom]

There isn't a man, or woman, between the ages of 19 and 21 who has not seen strippers.

What an exaggeration! Not one?!? BTW, I am a woman that has seen male (and female) strippers. There is nothing more effeminate than a male stripper. Nothing manly about a hairless man gyrating around with a thong on.

[beaversmom]

Remember Billy Clinton showing up for Sunday Service with that big, big Bible in his hands?

And probably not 30 minutes before had just gotten a good one from Monica.

[RandallFlagg]

LOL! Somehow I knew this was a Coulter article just from reading the title.

[lesser_satan]

bump

[beaversmom]

...However the Duke lacrosse rape case turns out, one lesson that absolutely will not be learned is this:

If young people would listen to the lessons of those that went before, what a wonderful world this would be.