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.

[altura]

So you believe that line of crud?? I know you can catch a cold from getting cold in cold weather.

Cold enough for you?

[altura]

Yowzah! That even really brought out the judges on FR.

[I got the rope]

[Revolting cat!]

What crud? The "scientific" explanation? 'Course not, I don't believe it. Irony, dear, irony!

What triggered my initial response was an item in one of those Sunday mags, Parade, or something a few weeks ago, where exactly the very question had been posed by a reader to the guy who plays a doctor in print on Sundays. No, you can't catch a cold being cold in cold weather, said the good doc, but, contradicting himself immediately, he admitted that being cold in cold weather helps (not the word he used) the little tiny, invisible cold viruses to make you catch a cold. Go figure.

[AZ_Cowboy]

Thanks again. This stuff is pretty much Captain Obvious material, but for some reason some find it controversial. The hypocrisy part could prove useful at a later date.

[Cicero]

For what it's worth, I've never seen a stripper. I don't say that because I'm holier than thou. It just doesn't strike me as something I would want to do.

Although Ann doesn't say it, I had been thinking earlier about a remark someone made on another thread about the Duke business--that our justice system is broken and does this sort of thing often. So, how would you avoid having it happen to you? How do you avoid having a DA indict you?

The big mistake these boys made was to invite a black stripper to visit them. That's mixing porn with race, a dangerous mixture. No doubt they thought they were being very broadminded and nonjudgmental and all that. But the racial angle was the basic ingredient that turned this whole affair into political dynamite.

It could have happened with a white stripper, I suppose, but this outcome would have been less likely. Ann can't say that, because it might sound racist, and her enemies would certainly jump all over it. But I think it's undeniable.

[smoothsailing]

BTTT!

[SteveMcKing]

As long as people are making up theories, here's mine:

I think the boy may have said something "kinky" in the heat of sex. Something that's offensive in any other context than hot, inter-racial action. Only she didn't take it that way.

Combined with the fact that her own college has a two-bit name, she is stripping/getting boned for and by a younger guy who had his dad pay for school, while she is paying her own way and raising a baby... Age 27 is a bit delayed for all of that (especially for women) in contrast to the boy who is going to be 25 and maybe own a Corvette by then.

I believe all of these factors suddenly came to light for her that night, and she just couldn't take it.

[sinkspur]

I think the boy may have said something "kinky" in the heat of sex. Something that's offensive in any other context than hot, inter-racial action. Only she didn't take it that way.

Except that, I'm willing to bet big coin, there was no sex, of any kind.

[Ladysmith]

Being cold in cold weather weakens your immune system so much, it's unable to viruses. So, yes, not wearing your coat in cold weather will allow you to get sick more easily.

[Ladysmith]

arg!

"...it's unable to fight viruses."

[It's me]

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

!!!
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What are you talking about?

[MHGinTN]

I'm so lucky to hear her voice in my head when I read her columns ... and to think I have BM(big media) to thank for that because they keep putting her live on the air! I don't think I could get too much 'annitizing' but I'd like to try the limits.

[RonDog]

I'm so lucky to hear her voice in my head when I read her columns ... and to think I have BM(big media) to thank for that because they keep putting her live on the air!

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[Dan Evans]

Blaming the male victims is something I'd expect from the NY Times.

I'd say the real victims are the poor schmucks who will be on the jury and have to interrupt their lives to sort out the testimony of these lowlifes.

And I don't think that steering clear of strippers should be characterized as "emasculating yourself". It's mostly losers who hang out in strip clubs.

[MHGinTN]

Thanx RD, I needed that! Wasn't long enough for my taste but it helped. I would really love to get Christopher Hitchens and Ann Coulter on my porch over a few beers in a summer evening, to talk politics and world affairs ... not both at the same time mind you, I would like to get a word in edgewise.

[RonDog]

:o)

[rock58seg]

This woman has a beautiful mind. If I were 25 years younger I would stalk her for her mind alone.

Beauty, brains and beastly to liberals, all in one package.

[monkeyshine]

I have always been unabashedly anti-murder, anti-rape and anti-false accusation -- and I don't care who knows about it!

Easy. These are 3 of the 10 commandments. But apparantly they aren't taught in a lot of households these days.

[jws3sticks]

Bill to Hill: "Do you want to carry this "prop" or should I?"

"Keep smiling, we only have a few years to go."