Saturday, March 10, 2007

Queen Coulter The Ambivalent

This woman is amazing. People look at poor immigrants who work their way up the social and corporate ladder to become affluent members of society and pronounce that they "embody the American dream." Wrong. Ann Coulter is the American dream -- she says whatever the hell she wants with total disregard for other people and continues to climb in her profession. Was her joke about John Edwards funny? Sort of. Not because of her loose use of a sexual slur, but because she poked fun at the ridiculousness of sending a person to rehab for using a degrading word. But come on Ann (do you mind if I call you Ann? If not, how about raging dyke...no offense of course), do you really expect us to believe that your use of that word was appropriate simply because you weren't screaming it at a homosexual male while beating him? You're telling me that that is the only time that a loaded word like that takes on its true meaning?

Just like the commonly sidestepped "n-word," context and tone can drastically effect the force behind such a volatile word. Granted Coulter did not use it as an insult to a gay man, but she must be aware that there are more than just a handful of people who hear that word as a declaration of hate. To defend her use of the word is obscene — almost as much as her using the word in the first place. But, Queen Coulter lives by her own rules, in her own fairy tale land where she can defend anything she wants to by simply saying "my liberal counterparts WOULD say that, the silly bastards." What a dyke...and I mean that in the fun-loving, "you love your sister and mom" kind of way. You understand...

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