Reasons to Really Dislike Ann Coulter

[desertvixen]

I know, it's so hard to pick just one, so I offer several.

The article in full is here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/murderspreebypeoplewhorefusetoaskfordirections;_ylt=Aj1IO1YDPBeYiuLN8SgxfDlhr7sF
By Ann Coulter Ann Coulter – Thu Jan 15, 3:57 pm ET


The Treason Times' banner series about Iraq and Afghanistan veterans accused of murder began in January last year but was quickly discontinued as readers noticed that the Times doggedly refused to provide any statistics comparing veteran murders with murders in any other group.

In most of the stories I've read about veterans who return from Iraq and kill someone, there's been some focus on the role that being in Iraq might have played.  Deployment brings a lot of stress on people, and can exacerbate problems.  The record on asking for help on mental issues also remains a little sketchy. 

 There are some cases that don't fit this mold, like the Maria Lauterbach murder.  That one, however, has its own issues that need to be addressed.

But as long as the Times has such a burning interest in the root causes of murder, how about considering the one factor more likely to create a murderer than any other? That is the topic we're not allowed to discuss: single motherhood.

As you might imagine, this is the part of the article that started pissing me off. 

As I describe in my new book, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America," controlling for socioeconomic status, race and place of residence, the strongest predictor of whether a person will end up in prison is that he was raised by a single parent.

As a now single mother, I'd like to say several things.  None of them however, are polite.

By 1996, 70 percent of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long-term sentences were raised by single mothers. Seventy percent of teenage births, dropouts, suicides, runaways, juvenile delinquents and child murderers involve children raised by single mothers. Girls raised without fathers are more sexually promiscuous and more likely to end up divorced.

Maybe, in the face of these statistics, we look at the idea of having society HELP single mothers, instead of condemning them, and their children.  Maybe we look at the idea of providing robust after-school programs, so kids and teens have somewhere safe to be after school.  You know, because a lot of their single mothers will be at work.  (If they weren't at work, I'm sure we could cue up the "welfare queen" argument.)  Maybe the single mother is lucky enough to have family that can help her out, maybe not. 

With new children being born, running away, dropping out of high school and committing murder every year, it's not a static problem to analyze. But however the numbers are run, single motherhood is a societal nuclear bomb.

 Never mind my earlier restraint.  Don't lecture women about motherhood, something YOU have not attempted.  Fuck off.

Even in liberals' fevered nightmares, predatory mortgage dealers, oil speculators and Ken Lay could never do as much harm to their fellow human beings as single mothers do to their own children, to say nothing of society at large.

You know it's just on the tip of her tongue to talk about dirty sluts who couldn't keep their legs shut.

 I'm a single mother.  Not by choice.  I'm a single mother because my combat veteran husband (3 times for global war on terror) decided after seven months in Afghanistan that he didn't want to be married anymore.  No counseling, no pleas, no working on it - just a divorce.  Of course, I'm sure Ms. Coulter would pin the blame on me being an uppity feminist bitch.  I'm over here, separated from my toddler for a year, because it's for the best, financially.  I'm lucky that I have this opportunity to get ahead, to have a cushion to make the transition easier.  A lot of women don't have that. 

 Of course, it's always easier to throw a stone than offer some help.

 DV

Comments

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

She's never been a mom, nor has she ever been in the military. Funny how those who have never put on a uniform and picked up a gun are the fastest to judge us.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

It's much easier to judge someone that way.

I'm just waiting for her to not be relevant anymore.

DV

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Hugs (for you & your daughter).

Many women over the centuries have ended up raising kids alone for many different reasons: none of them needed that kind of jerk hassling them.

The only reason to read Coulter is to find actual facts she's got wrong which you can then use to force her publisher/newspaper to print a retraction. But I don't think that's a good enough reason to let her raise your blood pressure. There are so many better people to read.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I normally skip Coulter, but every now and then we all have weak moments.

DV

[castiron.livejournal.com]

If Ann Coulter ever ends up a single mother, I'm going to laugh my ass off. (Oh, but if she ever ends up a single mother, it's going to be for a *good* reason, not like all those other single mothers.)

[dunmurderin.livejournal.com]

But even if she ends up as a single mother, she's got enough money to be able to care for her child better than many two-parent households can. Just like I have a hard time feeling sorry for those poor Hollywood single mothers who can hire nannies and tutors and don't have to worry about paying the bills because they have some hired to do it for them.

It's not even just Coulter; I read a lot of women's magazines at work and most of them operate on the presumption that their audience lives in a two-parent, possibly two-income home and that one parent has the time/ability to spend making sure their kids get that early start on Latin grammar or starting a charity for poor kids at home.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Yes. What you said. That's why I quit reading a lot of that.

DV

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Yes. She's not like those Other Women. One day, the right is going to find a newer, prettier face for the venom she spews (I think Laura Ingraham may be the lady in waiting) and poor Ann will find herself all alone. Then maybe she'll understand some of what the feminists say.

Then again, maybe she'll just turn into the next Phyllis Schlafly. *shivers* And we'll never be rid of her.

DV

[oilhistorian.livejournal.com]

Then again, you could always take solace in the fact that a child of a single mother is about to be inaugurated as your Commander-in-Chief ... ;-)

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is a nice little bonus.

DV

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Of course, Coulter thinks women shouldn't have been given the vote. Therefore, if we are to believe her worldview, you needn't believe her worldview. She's "just" a woman, after all....

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

But she's Special. Important. Not like Those Other Women (ie, Uppity Bitches)

The Men In Charge can trust her to badmouth other women, and so she remains safe and special.

DV