Let’s Play “What Point is this Pundit Missing?”

There’s no necessary reason why feminists and cultural conservatives can’t join forces — in the same way that they made common cause during the pornography wars of the 1980s — behind a social revolution that ostracizes serial baby-daddies and trophy-wife collectors as thoroughly as the “fallen women” of a more patriarchal age.

Raise your hand if you can guess what point this pundit is missing.

If you can’t raise your hand because you’re masturbating furiously to a seemingly endless supply of pornography, congratulations! You’re a winner on “What Point is this Pundit Missing?”

Okay, look, I’m gonna level with ya here. It’s a 2-day old piece and I couldn’t care less about Douthat anyway. This is a Trojan post; what I really want to link to is this bit of apolitical dorkitude. I haven’t been this sad to see a show get axed since I returned home from an alternate dimension in which season 7 of Buffy wasn’t excruciating.

Posted by gil mann on 05/27/09 at 01:53 PM • Permalink

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles had an admittedly uneven run over one and a half seasons, but its last six episodes were among the strongest hours of television I’ve ever watched.

Whoops. That’s probably right before we took it off the scheduled recordings on the DVR.

Comment by Kevin K. on 05/27/09 at 03:18 PM

Poor, poor, pitiful Douchehat.

I’m going to hate myself in the morning for this, but damnit, I miss Bill Kristol.

His stunningly anti-Nostradamian powers of predicting the exact opposite of everything that ever happens, the inexorability of the editors’ corrections the day after publication, all of it.

At least when you were done with reading Bill Kristol in the NYT you had something to talk about. You could get precious minutes at the water-cooler out of, “Hey, did you see that asinine fact-free rant of Kristol’s in the Times today?” Even on the days when his column didn’t run, you could guarantee a conversation.

Now, if you say, “Hey, did you read that pointless drivel by Douchehat?” the likely response is a blank stare. Even after you remind them of the topic.

Shorter Douchehat: You know what this country needs? More slut-shaming, that’s what this country needs. And why don’t we shame male sluts too, while we’re at it?

Comment by Allan on 05/27/09 at 03:20 PM

I would love to hire Joan Jett to go up to Douchehat and sing “Spinster” to him:

Maybe I don’t wanna/Maybe I don’t wanna/ Maybe I don’t wanna FUCK YOU!

Comment by Oblomova on 05/27/09 at 03:29 PM

Also, I just want to kiss the commenter from New Zealand who left the following on Douchehat’s doorstep:

Yes, apparently unbridgable divides are occasionally crossed. Radical feminists *did* make common cause with anti-feminist fundamentalist Christians over pornography in the 1980s. Indeed that Anschluss was so stunningly successful that, by the beginning of the 21st Century, pornography had been completely wiped out all over the world, and was never heard from ever again.

Comment by Oblomova on 05/27/09 at 03:31 PM

Er, if some kind soul could fix the quote tags, I’d be ever so.

Comment by Oblomova on 05/27/09 at 03:35 PM

Thanks, kind soul!

Comment by Oblomova on 05/27/09 at 03:35 PM

Thanks, kind soul!

Who loves you?

That’s right, Kevin loves you.

Comment by Kevin K. on 05/27/09 at 06:23 PM

Indeed that Anschluss was so stunningly successful that, by the beginning of the 21st Century, pornography had been completely wiped out all over the world

Oblomova, I generally deplore ethnic stereotypes, but it really is true what they say about how those stinkin’ Kiwis’ll make essentially the same point you just made ‘cept far more eloquently, the hobbity little sheepfuckers.

God, I sound just like my father.