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Another Quote of the Day
Right-wing pundit Mark Steyn enlightens the rest of us on why women become lesbians -- or marry Muslims.
Alex Koppelman [2006-11-13]
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  • Explains a lot.

    So you're either with us or a lesbian?

    I read his quote 3 times and am still not sure I fully comprehend what he is saying, or maybe it's just not something I'd expect a sentient being to say.

    --Anonymous
    Monday, November 13, 2006 02:04 PM

  • Exes of his perhaps

    He might be reflecting on the afterlife of former lovers who felt an obviously compelling need to find a viable alternative.

    -- antaresting
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    Monday, November 13, 2006 02:18 PM

  • The Mark of stupid

    Or perhaps the women just dated someone like you, Mark.

    -- pacificwhim
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    Monday, November 13, 2006 02:26 PM

  • It probably never have occurred to him...

    It probably never occurred to him that many lesbians probably have had unsatisfactory relationships with men *because they're lesbians*.

    If you don't think homosexuality exists as a sexual orientation, I can see it being easy to get that cause and effect backwards.

    -- smileyy
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    Monday, November 13, 2006 02:29 PM

  • Mark Steyn

    And this guy gets paid to write?

    -- Allene Swienckowski
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    Monday, November 13, 2006 02:32 PM

  • A problem that comes across fairly clearly

    is this guy's cultural isolation. He's making pronouncements about people and groups of people whom he clearly knows very little about and with whom he clearly has very little contact. My late mother-in-law, a Korean woman born 1913 who fought to get a college education in a family with three boys, used to proclaim almost as her mantra that "Ignorance is the most frightening thing."

    -- danstr
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    Monday, November 13, 2006 03:06 PM

  • We finally found the WMD!

    WMD: Women Muslim Deviants

    -- Lev Raphael
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    Monday, November 13, 2006 04:18 PM

  • Steyn's only fooling himself

    if he thinks george Bush actually reads anyhting but Shakespears.

    -- stevio
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    Tuesday, November 14, 2006 05:14 AM

  • Other theories?

    Does Steyn have any comparable theories for why he's such a parochial, ignorant dork?

    -- Yet another David
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    Tuesday, November 14, 2006 08:15 AM

  • So, if men just tried a little harder...

    there wouldn't be as many lesbians or Muslims?

    In some weird, ignorant way, Mr Steyn has made a feminist argument about the causes of lesbianism and Muslim-ness. Who would have thought that Mr Steyn could be such a man-hater?

    -- kitster
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    Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:14 PM

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