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.

[gogeo]

Was Laura Bush talking about oral sex?

I've often wondered about the logic you employed here, so maybe you can help me out. I believe that your point is that if it isn't identical, it isn't applicable. True?

[justshutupandtakeit]

There must be something wrong with me since I have never gone to a party which had strippers. Maybe I hang out with the wrong people.

[WolfRunnerWoman]

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


The controversial things Coulter speaks of were once known as common sense. This makes me sad and fearful for our future.

[sinkspur]

It's not only not identical, it's not even in the same ballpark.

Look, you apparently think America's children stay up late on Saturday nights watching CSPAN, and that they just happened to catch the Correspondents Dinner and Laura Bush's little talk.

Some on this website are so prudish they won't buy a carton of milk because a cow's udder is depicted.

I found that the one's with the dirtiest minds about this whole episode were the ones who objected to it the most.

[sine_nomine]

Indeed.

[blasater1960]

Good Answer!

[sine_nomine]

Indeed.

[Miss Behave]

Me too, Cy.

Thanks for posting this great Annie article, boryeulb.

[SuziQ]

Oh, please! The First Lady's remarks were meant to be a joke, told to adults. And in case you MISSED the joke, the one about the President and the horse was a little joke on HIM now knowing the difference. Maybe in YOUR mind it came out a different way, but that must be YOU. I didn't get the same idea from the remark. I just considered it the First Lady telling a joke at the President's expense. The two of them do what long-time married couples always do; tease each other.

[Miss Behave]

"Nothing more glib than the provincialism of the pseudo-sophisticate."

Well put, Taliesan.

[Miss Behave]

And I also love Taliesan West. ;-)

[hosepipe]

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

Exactly... NOT useing Hyperbole in a Hyperbolic World is merely disinformation.. or denial..

[Taliesan]

I haven't seen either of them, actually. But I'd love to.

[gogeo]

I think that class shows. When you are representing the country in public, you leave an impression for better or worse. I'm not saying that she shouldn't talk that way, I'm saying she shouldn't talk that way as the First Lady at a public event.

Hopefully I was clear enough?

[Steve_Seattle]

The other day when I came home from work, the TV was on and my daughter (21) was not home. She had been watching MTV, and the show that was on when I arrived was some kind of a gay dating contest involving gay men and their mothers, with the mothers apparently acting in some kind of intermediary or advocacy role for their respective sons. So we had mothers touting their sons' large penises, stylish clothes, etc., to the guy who was to make the selection for his gay date. And when it was over the gay guy and his date (the winner of the competition) did a lot of full-mouth kissing as the moms cheered and applauded, and then the men staggered away in bliss, one riding on the other's back. Just one more example of what this society has become, and one less reason to be shocked by the Duke lacrosse team.

[Steve_Seattle]

It may not be true that "everybody" has seen strippers, but I would bet that by the age of 25, 80% of American men have seen strippers, a porn movie, or purchased an "adult" magazine. Maybe only 5-10% (or less) make a regular and permanent habit of this sort of thing, but among young men it is indeed "normal."

[Richard Kimball]

This is a brilliant column.

[Richard Kimball]

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

I can guarantee you there are, if you mean, "haven't seen a stripper working".

[beaversmom]

Isn't that sweet--every mother's dream. MTV should be called the Deviant Propaganda Network.

[Clemenza]

I think it is WRONG for women to go to strip clubs. We need a MEN ONLY rule for gentlemen's clubs. The only women in such clubs better be swinging around a pole. Not that I go to such places anymore...