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Ann Coulter is The Anti-Feminist
January 14, 2009 Posted in Reality
Typically, a strong woman with intellect and the ability to articulate that which is on her mind is a positive thing. Regardless of beliefs or heavy opinions, the ability to reasonably debate should be held in high regard in a world where feminism seems taboo to much of society and many men are still uncomfortable dating a better-read or better-versed woman.
A smart woman in the public eye should be revered. A smart, BEAUTIFUL woman in the public eye should draw even more attention to herself if the data I’ve collected on the correlation between beauty and attention is correct.
And hence we have the problem with Ann Coulter.
She happens to be remotely intellectual, well-read, able to debate, and beautiful. She should, theoretically, be a feminist icon for all strong-willed and curiously-minded women. She should, regardless of party or religion, be a demonstration to society that women can think in a calculative manner and speak freely, as well as intelligently. She should be these things because she is gifted and qualified to be these things.
Yet instead, she exploits her talent and intellect. Instead, she sabotages her own ability to speak on behalf of women. For those of you who don’t know, Ann Coulter is a best-selling author about as relevant to literature as Marilyn Manson is to music. Like Marilyn Manson, the woman sells her books because of shock-value and shock-value alone. Without hesitation, Ann Coulter sums up liberalism as “the opposition party to god.” She has claimed that societal problems are based on single motherhood, that liberalism is a religion, and that democrats are incapable of fighting a war on terrorism. Ann Coulter refers to President Elect Obama as B. Hussein Obama and writes off her blatant attempt to brainwash her listeners into associating him with Saddam Hussein as humor.
And funny, she does seem. For a woman as capable of linear thinking as Ann Coulter should be, I find it easier to assume that she is a brilliant artist of satire than an embarrassment to women…but I’m afraid that assumptions aren’t relevant in the case against Ann Coulter.
Is she good or bad for women?
She is bad.
Unlike her average or below average intelligence level fellow female starlets, who also share in the molding of minds via the media, Ann Coulter is actually worse for women than they are. Heidi Montag spews something utterly ridiculous from her mouth and it doesn’t tangle society’s perception of women nearly as much as what comes out of Ann Coulter’s mouth. Why? Because Heidi Montag is an idiot. And that’s what she sells herself on. Ann Coulter, however, is clearly smart, but also batsh*t crazy, and this is a dangerous weapon against women as a whole.
She is bad for women because she furthers the assumption that women are crazy, smart or not. She is bad for women because she doesn’t thoroughly think before she speaks and often times contradicts herself. She is bad for women because she cares more about selling books than she does about meaning what she says.
I am a liberal, not a Christian, and ashamed of Ann Coulter. Predictable, right? But I am not ashamed of her as a liberal or a non-Christian. I am ashamed of her as a woman. Women should use their opportunities to speak their mind to the entire world, not make a mockery of them.
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Lauren, University o says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20098:54 am
This is not political. This is about women and empowerment. CollegeCandy is a place where people can express their opinions, so you can't hate people who do!
snarktastic says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20099:18 am
i was of the impression that feminism is actually about empowering women to do and say what they want, not to conform to one particular ideology. just because you disagree with what she has to say, doesn't mean she's wrong. women can think whatever they want, and at the end of the day, she has succeeded in branding her type of thought. she's educated, sought out for her opinion, and wildly successful, regardless of your taste.
oh and melissa, it's all political. collegecandy is super liberal, though their non-political articles are entertaining enough. plus it's fun to harass them on their ineptitude.
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Madison says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20099:19 am
I forgot to mention World War I. So, in the 20th Century, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and JFK (LBJ put the first US combat units in Vietnam) didn't enter a major war.
Oddly enough, those are some of my favorite presidents.
Madison says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20099:21 am
So I guess my argument is that Anne Coulter is, in fact, an idiot, and is not smart.
Kelly says:
Wed, 14th Jan 200912:19 pm
She is clearly well-educated but that doesn't make her intelligent. I have a very hard time believing that an intelligent being, man or woman, could act the way she does. Shes insane.
Did anyone watch her interview on the Today Show? Yes, Matt Lauer was asking tough questions because thats his job working for what she knew damn well is a liberal media conglomerate, but she was just crazy. And again on that show afterwards with Kathie Lee (its what I watch when I wake up and work out so I saw both).
And I agree with the statement that her research is often shaky. She has a right to believe whatever she wants, and I have a right to say shes effing insane.
Madison says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20091:10 pm
Michael Moore bothers me too. Though Sicko, in my opinion, was great. But I think it suffered from Moore's previous political posturing.
Dina says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20091:33 pm
For the people that might think she has legitimate points in her book, read the chapter on her in Al Franken’s book “Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them.” I didn’t realize how much shoddy research she builds her points on
Melissa says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20091:44 pm
Okay, I’m kind of over the political commentary on College Candy: first, the impolitic comments about President Bush’s final days in office (http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/15960) and today? Ann Coulter. While neither of these individuals is perfect (as no one is), why all the hate for national Republicans?
If these jabs at the GOP continue, I’m going to unsubscribe from this blog: I go to school in the North East and get it enough.
beth says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20091:50 pm
As a Republican, a Christian, and a Conservative, I am also insanely disgusted with Ann Coulter. She ranks up there with Nancy Grace. Eew. I, myself, would like to give her a good backhand just to keep her jaw wired shut for a little longer
…And yes, College Candy is extremely liberal- sometimes annoyingly so. College Candy also has the tendency to insinuate that all Republicans are narrow-minded rednecks, that Christians are all raving Bible-thumping lunatics who try to cram their beliefs down other peoples' throats,and that 99% of women are promiscuous, interested only in one-night stands and drinking games, all of which are untrue- BUT we all have the option to skip the stuff we don't like (or make our opinions known in the comment section.) Nobody forces us to read every individual blog and certainly nobody makes us agree with everything that is said on here.
On a side note, it would be nice to see a blog from a more conservative individual every now and then, just for variety.
Madison says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20092:14 pm
In one of her books, Godless or something, she wrote that no Democratic president has ever entered a war.
I didn’t know how to respond to this published
“fact”. And the entire book was about how liberals are just cowards.
I wanted to say something about, perhaps, World War II. Or Vietnam. Or Korea. Not wars I’m especially proud of or anything, but I’d think they’d go against her statement.
She’s mind-numbingly dumb. Her gawky statements and sensational lies and exaggerations, hyperbole-to-the-extreme appeal to a very, very stupid part of our country. Hearing her speak on TV feels like there’s a little man stabbing the backs of my eyes with a knife.
jodi says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20092:38 pm
It’s not fair to ask Ann Coulter to “represent women” just because she’s intellectual and beautiful. Honestly, many women have very different ideas of how they would like to be treated in society, so how about instead of trying to find a standard or a role model for women, we just accept each other – and ask society to accept us – as individual human beings?
Just like Michael Moore, who often made me angry before I realized this, you have to take her for what she is. She’s an extremist, and she makes her radical points because she thinks they need to be made to counteract leftist radical points. She has an opinion, and she has every right to express it in whatever way she would. To ask her to STIFLE that opinion is anti-feminist. As to furthering the opinion that women are “crazy,” does Michael Moore make you think men are all egoist slobs? If a man were ever to alter his definition of women in general because of one woman in particular, I would find him a lot more crazy than I find Ann Coulter. And I do think she’s crazy.
Celia says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20092:52 pm
Personally, I can’t really stand her. She’s very much an extremist who doesn’t back up her research nearly well enough.
Jenn says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20095:19 pm
The author of this article should not feel ashamed of Ann Coulter at all. To assert that Coulter is bad for women gives her WAY more power than she actually has. Isn't that what she's seeking? She is allowed her opinions, detestable as they are. I think it's good someone like her is in the spotlight, because most reasonable citizens on both sides of the aisle recognize that she is a prime example of an extremist.
On another note, I find it HILARIOUS that conservatives whip out the "liberal media" card when reporters/print journalists actually do their jobs and ask the hard questions. As a moderate, I believe there were MANY occasions during the Bush administration when the hard questions were not asked of him and his representatives. Yet one rarely heard the liberals whip out their own "right-wing media bias" card.
Don't get me wrong, I can barely watch television news. Not because of any detectable political slant, but because of the abject stupidity in analysis, lack of substance, and lack of context given to news segments.
As for college candy being liberal, WHAT?!
99% of the stories on here have nothing to do with politics! Even more, its a free country – go find a website in line with your political views. There are probably plenty of them. I do!
vi says:
Wed, 14th Jan 20099:03 pm
I first heard about her through the whole Godless-plagiarism-scandal. Actually, maybe calling it a “scandal” is hyping her up too much. Anyway,it’s been downhill from there.
Thomas says:
Thu, 15th Jan 20095:42 am
Well on the other side you have the ladies of The View, Rachel Maddow, Al Franken, Michael Moore, and Keith Olbermann. All political bomb throwers. Just have to except them for what they are and ignore them in the belief that society as a whole ignores their opinions seeing them as the crazies they are.
danyell says:
Thu, 15th Jan 200910:28 am
This article is a great one for the fact that this woman is BATSHIT crazy, but it really has nothing to do with feminism. Feminism is the belief that men and women should be equal, and in ur article, there is nothing stated that says ann coulter said anything against feminism.
she is anti-liberal and anti-democrat and anti-any-other-religion-but-hers.
to sum it all up, she is anti-diversity.
JohnE says:
Thu, 15th Jan 200911:11 am
Ann Coulter is only anti feminist if feminism is a homgeneous ideology. It is not anti-feminist to believe that stay at home mothers are better for the children than mothers who work outside the home. I don't know how anyone can deny that it would be better if the mother did stay at home. I also don't know how anyone can cay it is a tragic failure if the mother works. Ann coulter is just a lunatic. Saying anything else is just inflating her importance.
beth says:
Thu, 15th Jan 20091:17 pm
Jenn- Liberal does not refer only to politics.
Nobody said that College Candy strictly writes about politics. Nor did anybody bash college candy in the comments- so getting all defensive and telling people to go read stuff that aligns with their own views is just pointless.
Jacks says:
Thu, 15th Jan 20091:22 pm
Agreeing with Jodi, Jenn and JohnE here.
You could almost look at Ann Coulter as the epitome of feminism-she is out there, spewing out her ideas and beliefs and making a great living off of it. She might be batshit crazy, but 50 years ago she wouldn't have been able to make a living off of being batshit crazy.
Ann Coulter doesn't represent all women. She isn't the only woman in the media. I hardly doubt I'm going to go on a date with some guy and he's going to assume that I'm nuts because Ann Coulter is nuts. You would never, ever, write this article about a public male figure and say he represents/ruins things for all men.
Jenn says:
Thu, 15th Jan 20096:07 pm
beth-
Lol, I did read my last statement and it does sound kind of preachy. I guess I always think politics when folks say "liberal," but that isn't always true! I went back and read your post, and I'm definitely NOT an elitist who thinks all Christian conservatives are wacko rednecks.
But I'm curious what you get out of this site if you find it "extremely liberal." Why come here at all, why not go to a place that is more in alignment with your views on sex, dating, drinking, etc. Just an honest question, not trying to be confrontational or anything
Amanda says:
Thu, 15th Jan 20096:45 pm
There are women liberals who are extremists as well as “batshit crazy” b ut you also wouldn’t write this article about them
amanda says:
Wed, 21st Jan 200911:28 pm
amen.
alek says:
Mon, 11th Jan 201010:25 am
"many men are still uncomfortable dating a better-read or better-versed woman."
I'm sorry, this is complete BS. Its a matter of priorities, we still put physical looks and "femininity" on a higher priority than world-accomplishments. If Megan Fox had a PhD, she'd be no less attractive to us than she is. In fact, the biggest crush of my life was a girl who's 10x smarter then I am (she had 2 diplomas by 23, and working on a PhD). But she was super-cute, super charming and "feminine", and her intelligence just increased her attractiveness.
"she sabotages her own ability to speak on behalf of women. ""
How about she's not interested in being a sexist? She's interested in humanity, not female-supremacy. And where she believes female-supremacists (feminists) are hurting humanity, she will side against them.
"where feminism seems taboo to much of society"
Taboo? In the same way that the crazy guy going "the world is ending", flailing abount in the street is "taboo"? I'm sorry, this is another lack of introspection in feminism. There is nothing taboo about being feminist… It has more to do with the radical, insane aspects associated with it. It actually requires believing some far-out theories and contradicting common sense and facts.
I'll be blunt. Most of the well-versed and better-read women are very unbalanced. They lack social skills, charm and have let-go of their looks and flirting skills in favor of career. And when we don't want anything to do with them, they blame it on "intimidation of her success". Complete BS.
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