Drivel and Bilge (Greek Columnist Hates American Women!)

LewRockwell.com ^ | 4-6-04 | Taki & The Spectator

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Drivel and bilge

Taki

(Excerpt)

Not that I’m exactly a homebody, but never before have I taken lunches by myself next to American ladies who lunch. And never before have I heard such drivel, such bilge masquerading as talk. American women have never been my favourites, but now it’s getting ridiculous. In civilised societies such as ancient Athens and Imperial Japan, women tried to make life a little more pleasant and easier for the breadwinners; only in the United States does the male spend his time pampering and, worse, listening to women. I suppose it all went wrong in 1920, when effete American men gave their womenfolk the vote, a mistake on a par with a White Star so-called unsinkable liner speeding through icebergs in the North Atlantic back in 1912.

In return for their emancipation, American women decided to reform their menfolk by assuming manly traits. This makes for some very ugly scenes at lunch. Women, you see, need to connect through emotional bonding, which was once a key to survival for the weaker sex. Now it causes nothing but trouble as women are caught between the demands of their genes — to be feminine, obedient, married — and a society telling them that they are equal and independent. Mind you, some of these women I’ve been listening to during lunch would make a Panzer division led by Rommel turn tail and head for the hills. Never have I heard such screeching, never have I witnessed such vulgar displays of materialism, not even in Monte Carlo during the month of August. One of these creatures, making a nasal sound which could stop a car salesman at 50 paces, banged on about having her teeth whitened for close to an hour. I wanted to get up and overturn her table, but then I had no tape-recorder. No judge would send me down if he heard what I had to hear.

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Taki is a Greek Columnist who writes for the Spectator newspaper in Britain.

Radical Feminism has given a bad name to American women.

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[Puppage]

Greek Columnist Hates American Women!

I am still pissed at them for Yanni.

[hellinahandcart]

Radical feminists don't talk for an hour about having their teeth whitened. I suspect he encountered the Park Avenue Blonde subspecies.

If he would lower himself to eat in more plebeian restaurants, he could avoid them.

[Servant of the 9]

Taki doesn't hate American Women, he hates New Yawk Wimmin.

So9

[KellyAdmirer]

I recognize the type he's talking about, the rude, obnoxious, it's-all-about-me type. I once was having a lunch in the city, and some apparently drunk woman started screeching at the waiters about how men have become weak, and where have all the real men gone, men used to be strong but now only women are strong, blah blah blah, and the waiters just had to put up with this.... All I can say is, in NYC at least you usually never have to see them again after they disappear into the crowd.

[curmudgeonII]

I suppose it all went wrong in 1920, when effete American men gave their womenfolk the vote, a mistake...

He's got that right. If women didn't have the vote Clinton would never have been elected.

[Prime Choice]

If women didn't have the vote Clinton would never have been elected.

I think that narrows the critique considerably. I don't have a gripe with American women...just Liberal American women.

[Arrowhead1952]

Let me fix the title of this story, as he probably only met a few.

Drivel and Bilge (Greek Columnist Hates American Democrat Women!)

[codyjacksmom]

Thank you Arrowhead from the female FReepers.

[Little Bill]

Taki is a son of Ithica, home of Oedessios, big ears, hero of Illium, father of the horse that rocked Troy, the trickster. All Greeks hold women in deep disregard, they founded philosophy and misogyny.

[Arrowhead1952]

Thank you Arrowhead from the female FReepers.

The main reason I made that correction, is that 99%+ Republican women are very intelligent. No so for the dumbocRAT women I know. They do use drivel and bilge to try to impress others.

[codyjacksmom]

Yeah, I've noticed that too. Most female Rats' are so wrapped up in themselves they aren't sensitive to the true issues surrounding an election such as this. Of course, this seems to be the case for Rat men also.

[Capriole]

Taki doesn't hate women, or American women. He just hates the sort of women we all hate: spoiled, self-obsessed, crude, noisy, vulgar liberal women who talk in loud voices instead of acting like ladies. To wit:

Last week I was in Washington and stayed with my old friend Willy von Raab. His wife Lucy was the proverbial breath of fresh air. She had gone off to compete for the Lavender Cup, in the American Daffodil Society’s yearly competition. Lucy won the cup for miniature best daffodil, a feat straight out of Mrs Miniver or State Fair. Now that’s what women should be doing. Daffodil competitions, showjumping, having babies, facing Bloomingdale’s, being the respite of warriors, but never, ever lunching and screeching about whitening their teeth.

I have to agree with him. I'm not too interested in Bloomingdale's anymore, but I can get behind gardening, having babies, and show-jumping, no problem. Even better: gardening, having babies, and dressage.

[OpusatFR]

"Mind you, some of these women I’ve been listening to during lunch would make a Panzer division led by Rommel turn tail and head for the hills."

I enjoy going toe-to-toe with my male counterparts. Guess Rommel would blanche at some of the ruckus.

He can't be writing about Hillary though. She got the vapors when Lazio crossed the stage. Poor dear. You would have thought he was Snidley Whiplash to her Little Nell.

Yah, presidential material there, for the Ladies' Aid Society, not confronting the terrorists....

[Arrowhead1952]

Most female Rats' are so wrapped up in themselves they aren't sensitive to the true issues surrounding an election such as this. Of course, this seems to be the case for Rat men also.

There are several RATs I work with on a daily basis. They are driven by a single issue, i.e. welfare, health care, and other government handouts. Not one of them can give me more than a single issue on most days, and I just hammer them with facts. I love to use quotes and articles from FR and the Limbaugh Letter. That really ticks them off.>Most female Rats' are so wrapped up in themselves they aren't sensitive to the true issues surrounding an election such as this. Of course, this seems to be the case for Rat men also.

Makes me feel good, real good but mean.

[Servant of the 9]

All Greeks hold women in deep disregard, they founded philosophy and misogyny.

And invented fudgepacking.

So9

[Graymatter]

If he thinks it's in women's genes to be "obedient," he's a certified He-man Woman-hater.

And it's not because he's Greek or male. No more than the women he criticizes are flawed because they're female. Small-minded asses are distributed in both genders and all nationalities.

I hope he finds the woman he deserves. Oh wait, he already has.

[cyborg]

Taki is a bit of a blowhard. Par for the course of that magazine.

[Cuttnhorse]

Bump...for later sending to a Greek friend married to a "liberated" American woman. (Man I'm mean)