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.

[buckeyesrule]

*****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.****

I was just thinking about that today. The Duke players mistake was that they invited the strippers into their world (their home). If the players had gone to a strip club instead (the strippers world) then they would have watched to show, whooped it up and then gone home and the next day everything would be back to normal. But when they let the strippers come into their world that's when they invited trouble. JAT

[RonDog]

"...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." - Ann Coulter

See also THIS classic photo series, from www.foundrymusic.com:

[cyborg]

I have to agree with Ann on this one.

[buckeyesrule]

****In no area except morality would a sane person believe he can't criticize something stupid because he's done it. ***

I don't think the left has a problem with criticizing bad behavior (unless its at a fundraiser) as long as at the end of the day you vote democrat. If you vote republican then they criticize you for being a nazi, racist, bigot. etc.....

[DManA]

Did these guys really hire these women to act out foreplay with absolutely no expecation of consumaton? What is the point of that?

[DManA]

Everyone who's played poker with his pals feels compelled to defend conservative morality hawks who sit in their Los Vegas room and piss away hundreds of thousands of bucks in video poker.

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;

[kalee]

Ms. Coulter certainly has a way with words.

[jla]

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.

jla - Proud to be perceived as judgmental.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I don't think it well to be looking for a chance to criticize "the servant of another." And I've heard enough discourse by Ann to make me very hesitant about supposing that she is not such.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and stand he will, for the Lord is able to make him stand" (Romans 14:4 - NASB).

[RonDog]

Hey, cyborg!

You are from NEW YORK, right?

Do you know of anyone going to see Ann speak at her Alma Mater -- NEXT MONDAY?

See also THIS thread:

Ann Coulter at Cornell Monday Nite, April 24, 2006 [Free Ticket Info]
Posted on 04/18/2006 6:45:56 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul

Ann Coulter, a noted conservative author and Class of 1984 Alumni, will be giving a speech on a topic of her choice concerning liberals in American society, the Iraq War, the Dick Cheney hunting accident, and more. Question and answers will occur immediately after the speech. Attendees will for sure be entertained by one of the conservative movement's brightest stars and even get a few laughs out of the program.

LOCATION: Statler, Auditorium

TIME: 7:00PM to 8:30PM

TOPIC: Liberalism, War on Terror, Iraq,

ADMISSION: Open to Public, Alumni, Students, Faculty, and Staff.

ADMISSION INFO: Free, tickets at Willard Straight Hall Ticket Office.

-- snip --

U P D A T E

People who are known Freepers interested in attending, FReep mail me for ticket info.

20 posted on 04/19/2006 5:03:59 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (CODE PINK has blood on their hands and they can never, never wash it off)

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[Doctor Raoul]

U P D A T E

[cyborg]

I would go see her if I could fit it into my schedule. I don't live in Manhattan.

[petercooper]

bttt

[RonDog]

I don't live in Manhattan.

I have not been back East in a while, but Cornell is located in mid-state New York -- ITHACA, right?

[Oztrich Boy]

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.

Blast from the past. What was fun was how every moral-con's version of the event was about ten times dirtier than what Laura Bush actually said. Good times

[delacoert]

Wow!

I can't find a blurb from this that summarizes the whole. The complete piece stands on its own.

It ought to be a sermon. One of the the most memorable.

Let me say it again. "Wow!"

[sinkspur]

What was fun was how every moral-con's version of the event was about ten times dirtier than what Laura Bush actually said.

Yep. The righteous around here just seemed to delight in repeating and embellishing Laura's remarks.

That's when I jumped off the Malkin bandwagon for good, when she came across so priggishly in her judgments about Laura Bush.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi Spooky! Good to see ya, girl.

Thanks for the ping. Good article.

[dangus]

1. That's her point: we can still object to or warn against behavior that we may have done at some point.

2. I didn't. I expect that the majority of my friends did not, either. Certainly very few have hired strippers for private parties. And I'm certainly no "fundie."

[AnnaZ]

When I first clicked on this thread, hours ago, I knew it was a Coulter, even tho' it wasn't in the title. I refreshed it just now and I'm glad the mods changed it, but it wasn't absolutely necessary.

Miss Coulter, < Randy Jackson> you are da bomb! < /Randy Jackson>