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.

[Dante3]

Nonsense. Many people have never been to a strip club nor have they invited strippers to their home. I certainly would not let something like that into my home.

[jammer]

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.

Sure. You can also emasculate yourself. Or become a hermit. Blaming the male victims is something I'd expect from the NY Times.

[SpookBrat]

Good article ping

[Dr. Scarpetta]

[goldstategop]

The Jewish answer would be "It is possible for man to exercise his yetzer ha tov (the good inclination) and tame his yetzer hara (the bad inclination) and self-improvement in one's ethical behavior is the work of a lifetime." That's why the Talmud spends pages and pages and pages discussing in intimate detail all those little questions of life: when to marry, how husbands and wives ought to behave towards each other, how to conduct one's business affairs and how to control the baser impulses of the human heart. Its very different from the Muslim and Christian answer and doesn't make for an easy life. But it has the virtue of focusing one's thoughts on what God really expects from people in a post-modern age in which morality is often the last thing on men's minds.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[nmh]

We all make mistakes. Most of us have done ridiculous things. Hopefully we've learned something from that - it's called .... drum roll .... WISDOM.

Applying KNOWLEDGE is WISDOM.

WISDOM is what we should be passing on instead of making excuses up for others that wish to remain stupid and never learn from their mistakes.

[Enterprise]

bump and grind and bump to the top

[Proud Conservative2]

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


Boy, you really missed the mark on this one....I don't know who you hang around with, but most of the people I know would never even consider this. My husband's 3rd cousin is the only one I know of that did something like that. It was the talk of the town. His fiance caught him watching naked women on cable and called off the engagement 2 weeks before the wedding. She ended it right on the spot and it stayed ended.

[Paulus Invictus]

Maybe it's not the case now, but I certainly had never seen a stripper when that age. In fact, the only time I did was post 30 and then it was a surprise at a more sedate party. No one applauded then and were offended at the host's idea of a fun guest performer, even though the chick did not strip to the buff. Guess I'm just getting old. Mama mia!

[alrea]

In the 8 years under Clinton, the libs were able to use the "political correctness police" to scare people into not identifying bad as bad.

political correctness is nothing more than avoiding truth in order to influence constituencies.

[sinkspur]

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.

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.

You don't seem to know the difference.

That, or you just had to get your usual dig in at the Bush administration.

[joesnuffy]

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

-Amen (from a former bouncer at such joints)

[Rummyfan]

Wednesday evening Ann Coulter ping!

[stopem]

"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"

She states the obvious.

[Rummyfan]

Why is AC the only conservative with the "balls" to say things like this?

That's why she's Ann Coulter!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

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.

The problem, IMHO, is the word "luckily". Replace that with "Praise the Lord," and there is IMHO no problem. Just a pointed way of saying that Christ was man as well as God.

[Safetgiver]

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.

[Krodg]

This is what I had a problem with

that Christ fellow has already paid my debt

If you have no respect for God, I have none for you.

[RogueIsland]

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

Oddly enough, I never have, but I was engaged to one once. My life has gone through its strange periods.

[buckeyesrule]

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