Letters to the Editor
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It's hard....
to come up with a title that doesn't sink to the same level of screwed-up gender politics that are being critiqued. For example, "Little things come in small packages" (or the many many variations that have been proposed) basically says, "these guys say they have big dicks, but aren't they silly because their dicks are really small!" Is that really the only way to go? Can't you just say that when neanderthals strutt their manliness they are idiots because it's idiotic to strutt one's manliness, not because they aren't really manly? Can't it be about the stupidity rather than the hypocrisy?
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how about...
All Hat And No Cattle: The Manly Myths Of Right-Wing Hypocrites
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various
Yellow Dawn
Triumph of the Ill
Revenge of the Turds
Hamburger Shill
All Cowards on the Conservative Front
Flaunting Dauntless
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a joke and title tie-in
An elephant falls in a pit and calls out for help. A Republican gets in his Hummer and uses a winch to drag him out. The next day, the Elephant falls in the pit again. A Democrat hops in his Prius, drives over to the pit, and unfurls his long penis which the elephant uses to climb out of the pit.
The moral of the story: if you gotta big dick you don't need to be a Republican.
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RE: update
The crack about Al Gore "practically lactating" was hurled by Maureen Dowd, so this is not a slur from the Right but from the All-Girls'-Parochial-School-Toilet, where Maureen still reigns as queen. She Gores Obama in today's NY Times, having learned nothing in the last 7 years nor evolved any shame or conscience. She probably still lies awake nights wondering why Pat Buchanan never asked her to the prom.
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Glenn:
Many of our nation's most boisterous war advocates - the ones most eager to send our nation into new wars - obviously perceive themselves to be weak and lacking in what they understand to be manly virtues, and they compensate through the feelings of power they get -- through war, a strong leader, many things. It's relevant -- very relevant, I believe -- and I'm going to talk about it.
I'll ask you -- is Larry Craig's behavior in bathrooms relevant? Is David Vitter's with prostitutes?
Behavior is fair game; appearance is in the beholder's eye. I'm asking you, what is obvious in Hemingway's photo? Exactly how does that show he perceives himself to be weak and lacking in manly virtues?
Is it his haircut? His shirt? Don't you like his expression?
Why won't you parse the photo for us? Clearly you don't want to. Your readers are having a great time, why make them critical?
Look, your thesis is excellent and true, but this line of argument-by-innuendo is unworthy. It's ugly when anyone does it. The more you argue, the deeper the pit you're digging.
Let me be explicit, since you don't want to. Hemingway looks as fit as a cop to me. Not as fit as George Bush, Gen. Petraeus, Condi Rice, Scooter Libby or Arnold Schwarzenegger, maybe, but I don't judge their motives against their physiques. Is he fat? Is that what you can't say?
I don't think this is the kind of argument you want to be making.
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Another suggestion:
Sissy-Mary-Phobia: The Right-Wing Attacks... but they send other people's children
[Trying to think of potential book titles could turn into quite a parlor game.]
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Titles II
"Real Men Have To Tell You About It All The Time"
"The Truest Heroes Have No Tans"
"Keyboard Machismo"
"Buy a Ranch, Wear a Hat: Becoming President In 2 Easy Steps"
"Too Manly Not To Torture"
"Crushing Children's Testicles: Lessons on Manliness from John Yoo"
"Lesions on Manliness"
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book title
Turning Elephants into Real Men
or
Take my lunch money and i'll bomb you!
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That's it
Titles?
"The Right Fluff"
-- Jazgar
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 12:58 PM
(stifling laughter at work) PERFECT!!
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Title suggestions
Serious suggestions:
* Below the Belt (inspired by alden's post)
* On Manliness
* Oh Man, the Manliness of those Manly, Manly Men!
* Ninety Pound Weaklings
* Of Cowards and Cowboys (inspired by sailmaker)
* Doughboys (borrowed from Karen M. Oops, looks like SomeNYGuy came up with it too)
* Compensating for Something
[I don't think any of these suggestions are a match for blogarillo's]
Utter silliness:
* Is That a Pair of Tube Socks in Your Flight Suit, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
* It's Raining Men
* Is Sean Hannity a Transvestite? and other musings on the right-wing cult of manliness
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The Real Wingnut Perversion
As for women on the right? Well, lets just say they keep most of their opinions to themselves, its not their place to talk in the "man's" world of politics. Meanwhile, they are canceling out the votes of their husbands and boyfriends. They have had enough too.
Oh, honey, if even 10 percent of wingnut females, or just females stuck in families with wingnut men, voted against the freakazoid line, there'd never be another republican elected in this century.
"Women on the right" have willingly hidden themselves in political and social burkas of their own making. Coulter, Malkin, Ingraham and the rest are for show, providing the slobbering masses with both red-meat insults and guilty dominatrix fantasies.
"Women on the right" are not only not women; they're not even human. They barely rise to the level of sheep.
That's the real sexual perversion of the freakazoids: they cannot abide the fact that Democrats have lots of hard, wild, ecstatic sex with real human beings, and don't have to pretend they don't.
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This is more fun than taking your turn in the barrel
Maneaters: Stuffed Tigers and Their Lawful Prey.
A Projection of Dunces: Why Freepers See America in their Mirrors.
Is That a Banana? Neo-Fruits in Cheap Suits.
Going Down: How the Village People have Violated Our Sleeping Nation.
Fugitives From a Daisy-Chain Gang.
Light on Their Feet: Why Neocons are Such Good Dancers.
Queens of Outer Space: Neocons and the Men They Love Too Much.
Republican Women On The Moon.
Operation Vanilla Thunder: White Bread Dreams of Whole Grain Toast.
Doughy Pantloads: How Sta-Puft Marshmallow Men Rule America.
And, because any new book needs a testimonial, may I suggest: “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” - Dean Vernon Wormer (may be accompanied by a photo of any Young Republican meeting with an open bar.)