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.

[Lancey Howard]

Wow! This one is a keeper. Another masterpiece.
I love a strong Christian woman.

[TNdandelion]

Mom? Is that you?

[libstripper]

They are idiots, but they aren't crininals.

[libstripper]

If it had been a white stripper the DA wouldn't have seen the golden political opportunity of a lifetime and run with the case before he adequatgely investigated it. Having properly investigated the stripper's allegations, he'd have found there was no case and dropped it.

[libstripper]

She's also making the broader point that each of us is able to control our own fate far more than people who specialize in victimology are willing to admit. It's a case of looking for dangerous situations and avoiding them. If the stripper is telling the truth (fat chance!) then she was partly the author of her own fate by going out and performing for a bunch of drunken louts after midnight. The louts, on the other hand, got themselves into this mess by not seeing the terrible risk they were taking by inviting a slut and whore into their home to "perform."

It's just like riding a motorcycle safely--you control your own fate by being constantly paranoid and being constantly aware of the bike and everything around you. With careful attention it's possible to avoid many accidents that are technically the other guy's fault. In this article, Ann's arguing for that kind of personal, individual responsibility and saying people can avoid a lot of trouble by taking it instead of always looking to blame somebody else for their troubles.

[jammer]

Well, you're right about the jury. I didn't say that steering clear of strippers is emasculating oneself. I said that was one more possible way to avoid being charged with rape.

I don't know who hangs out in strip clubs, losers or not, because I don't go, but, losers or not, they don't deserve false accusations any more than winners. Of course, the accusations MAY not be false.

[subterfuge]

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.

So "fellow" is disrespectful in your opinion? How about the word 'person'? Jesus was a person, and a fellow, and a man. His name not be preceded by glowing phrasology in order to exalt Him, imho.

[HeadOn]

LOL. I can't quote it exactly, but there is a saying that goes something like, "If you can't be a good
example, perhaps you can be a horrible warning..."

[wallcrawlr]

She's acknolwedging to millions what the Lord has done for her in her life.

Have you ever witnessed to that many people?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Oh great. Now when we do a search on strippers and Ann Coulter column will appear. LOL!

Where do you get that we, white man?

[Boxsford]

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

Show respect yes. But also, don't paint Christians as above taking the liberal way out, "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." I know plenty, and one in particular that denies he ever does anything wrong and he calls himself a Christian.

[E Rocc]

18 years ago I was a bouncer in a strip club. I saw 30 - 40 year olds give as much as $500.00 away in tips. Every one of them was sure the stripper was in love with them. Every stripper was coke addict, KNEW they were going to be a movie star and the stupidity flowed down hill from there. The owner (and myself) just shook our heads and took in the money. I look back and feel disgusted for these women (who made the decision), the customers (who still frequent these circuses) and myself who enjoyed the beatings we gave the drunks nightly.

Pretty much everyone I know who's ever been close to that business (or even dated a honest stripper) looks at that business as the equivalent of going to a fancy restaurant and paying big bucks to smell the food. It's boring, actually.

But if people want to be taken, it's their business. Call it a stupidity tax. :shrug:

-Eric

[gogeo]

The unstated rule is: If you've done it, you can't ever criticize it --

That, of course, is balanced with "If you haven't tried it, don't knock it."

[Taliesan]

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

Nonsense. Where do you people get the idea that your own experience is automatically normal? Nothing more glib than the provincialism of the pseudo-sophisticate.

[E Rocc]

She's also making the broader point that each of us is able to control our own fate far more than people who specialize in victimology are willing to admit. It's a case of looking for dangerous situations and avoiding them.

She's saying that working as a stripper can be dangerous, and is therefore an irresponsible risk.

Using the same logic, one might say that for a woman to dress....well, like Ann does....can provoke an attacker and is therefore taking an irresponsible risk. That "defense" actually used to be used in rape trials. Fortunately, we've gotten beyond it.

I don't think anything actually happened here that was one, but a crime is a crime is a crime.

-Eric

[gogeo]

So don't mention it. This was an adult woman talking to adults. Coulter here is talking about kids and twentysomethings who don't have their hormones under control.

I think we all hold Bill Clinton responsible for providing the "teachable moment" for grade school children regarding oral sex. Despite the fact, to use your phrase, that it involved "adults."

We should hold Laura Bush to a lower standard? I think not. Either you believe public figures need to behave like role models, or you don't.

[sinkspur]

We should hold Laura Bush to a lower standard?

Was Laura Bush talking about oral sex?

[bonfire]

They STILL don't get the joke Laura told. Unreal.

[gogeo]

I think the tone of some posters is that if you haven't seen a stripper, there's something wrong with you.

I think those boys were being broad minded, all right...

[Tiberius109]

True BUT..
In these days , when you pay them to come over to your place , you're asking for big potential trouble.