Ann Coulter Wants to End Women's Suffrage

[RGM]

This week, as I occasionally do, I read Ann Coulter's column. If anybody ever wants to get a sense of what they do believe in, visit her site because you will either come away knowing that you're a conservative or fully assured that you are not. Me, I'm not.

In this week's festival of hate she gives favourable review to a new conservative-penned tome and gives examples of just some of the many agreeable things she finds in its pages. The very first one she posted is another anti-feminist, anti-woman offering that she's become noted for. No doubt she'd find common cause with a lot of knuckle-draggers who are choked that them uppity women demanded the vote.

Women shouldn't vote: "What changed ... that explains the growth of government? The answer is women's suffrage."

Now I'll admit that I'm not in favour of big government running the show in all aspects of life. I'm still perplexed about Canada's waking up one morning in December 2005 and deciding that a state-funded and -run national daycare program was a top priority that deserved drowning out almost everything else for a week--even the environment. But that doesn't mean there aren't areas where I'm happy the government is calling the shots: health care and education immediately spring to mind.
What Coulter is saying--or, at least, endorsing--however, is that we should return to the bad old days of the 19th century when only white, property-owning males had the right to determine the make-up of their government. Simply astonishing. Does she forget that she's a woman, and thus her advocacy of ending women's suffrage would result in her losing her democratic rights to vote? What if the menz, once fully freed from having to deal with such cumbersome issues like educating children and protecting women from numerous forms of male violence, decided to go one further and start stripping away other women's rights, like their right to own their own property or have and create their own wealth? All of those proceeds from her hate-filled books would simply evaporate, and her platform would thus be lost. It is amazing that this woman of incredible privilege would come and state that every member of her gender should not be equal citizens.

What's even worse is that there are millions of people who would agree with her.

[CoolAunt]

Now I'll admit that I'm not in favour of big government running the show in all aspects of life. I'm still perplexed about Canada's waking up one morning in December 2005 and deciding that a state-funded and -run national daycare program was a top priority that deserved drowning out almost everything else for a week--even the environment. But that doesn't mean there aren't areas where I'm happy the government is calling the shots: health care and education immediately spring to mind.
What Coulter is saying--or, at least, endorsing--however, is that we should return to the bad old days of the 19th century when only white, property-owning males had the right to determine the make-up of their government. Simply astonishing. Does she forget that she's a woman, and thus her advocacy of ending women's suffrage would result in her losing her democratic rights to vote? What if the menz, once fully freed from having to deal with such cumbersome issues like educating children and protecting women from numerous forms of male violence, decided to go one further and start stripping away other women's rights, like their right to own their own property or have and create their own wealth? All of those proceeds from her hate-filled books would simply evaporate, and her platform would thus be lost. It is amazing that this woman of incredible privilege would come and state that every member of her gender should not be equal citizens.

She probably holds some foolish belief that she'd be the exception, that The Menz would give her even more empowerfulment because they believe her to be as smart as they are. I mean, she helped them get those other women with their half-baked ideas of equality and freedom out of the board rooms and back to the bedrooms where they belong. Or maybe she knows it will never happen, that she and the other MRAs will never convince enough citizens to make it stick so she can reep the benefits of women's suffrage while sucking up to the MRAs who possess the most political clout. Who knows? Maybe she wants to become a republican politician. We all know that it's not beneath politicians of either party to speak against their own kind if their own kind won't get them as many votes as the other kind could.

[bluecoat28]

Even though I dislike her politics, I don't really care to bash Ann Coulter, because I know that although she has many supporters, many misogynistic people hate her too. On hustlingtheleft.com, if you scroll down and look at the cartoons from Hustl*r magazine, there's a picture of Ann Coulter being raped by the Democratic Donkey. At my university, many non-conservative, self-proclaimed "free-thinkers" called her a "bitch" and "whore", among other anti-woman comments. For some reason, Ann Coulter doesn't bother me, because she's so absurd-- I probably block her out of my mind completely. I get annoyed with those who see themselves as anti-war, and yet call her misogynistic words, attacking her womanhood. The anti-woman attitudes against Coulter remind me of the jokes on the Opie & Anthony jokes about raping Condoleeza Rice, Laura Bush, and Queen Elizabeth. Again, I completely disagree with most/all(?) of these women's political stances, but I know there are people out there who choose to call them "bitches", "whores", and who think they deserve to get raped, and I can't stand that.

[elfeminista]

This has got to be a joke, right? There can't possibly be any serious talk about this...exept by AC, who is not to be taken serious at all, right?

If any group needs to be disenfranchised from the vote...... it's not Women.

[Andrew]

Right, its US.
AC is really very smart, but also very irresponsible. I think she says things sometimes for the shock value or because she likes how they sound. ANd I also hate the misogynistic attacks on her and on other women who act "too smart" and speak out too confidently.

[RGM]

Right, its US.
AC is really very smart, but also very irresponsible. I think she says things sometimes for the shock value or because she likes how they sound. ANd I also hate the misogynistic attacks on her and on other women who act "too smart" and speak out too confidently.

It's one of those "fine-line" things sometimes. Coulter is very easy to criticize for her outlandish statements, and deserves a lot of the condemnation she receives for her highly insulting and denigrating statements of others. But that does not justify the people who are out there that use the ad hom attacks and call for all sorts of nasty things to happen to her. Criticize the position, yes, but don't call for harm against the person because of her views.