National Review's "Real Men Don't Have Daughters" hits the rest of the Internet

[ck4829]

The "Romney big strong man because he have many sons and give Obama fallopian tubes" is creating some interesting feedback.

"Oh, my. Romney, Williamson claims, is an "alpha executive," which means he leads a pack of executives through the wilderness and is given first dibs on any animals they kill. As if the grafting of lupine social structure onto a sub-Men Are From Mars understanding of gender was insufficient to explain the point, the reader is treated to a paragraph explaining that the gender of Romney's children — "five sons, zero daughters" — makes him a "high-status animal," a "tribal chieftain." (Obama, with his two daughters: "May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.&quot This, again, is why "from an evolutionary point of view" all women should vote for Mitt Romney. Williamson is going to strain his jaw trying this hard to be tongue-in-cheek."

http://gawker.com/5936957/mitt-romney-could-have-a-harem-if-he-wanted-insists-national-review

"Now all Romney needs is to go down to Crawford and have George W. Bush take him out to clear some brush, then maybe try on a flight suit and work on his strut."

http://prospect.org/article/mitt-romney-sexy-man

"Mitt Romney would not last even one day "roaming the veldt." I am pretty sure that he would have a complete nervous breakdown at the sight of a callus."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/mitt-romney-female-vote-national-review_n_1822470.html

"Women will like what I tell them to like."
- Homer Simpson

[byeya]

1. National Review: The crazy has come full circle with a longer radius

[Octafish]

2. Gosh. So why did his own sons need to have IVF?

From Mother Jones:

In May, Romney's son Tagg became father of twin boys thanks to help from IVF and a surrogate mother. Tagg's son Jonathan was also produced this way. Two of Tagg's brothers reportedly have struggled with infertility issues and resorted to IVF as well. It's hard to imagine that Romney will score any points with voters by tapping a running mate whose anti-abortion views are so extreme that Romney's own kids can't live with them.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/paul-ryan-abortion-ivf-romney-kids-criminals

[The Magistrate]

4. Kind Of Makes You Wonder Whose Kids Those Are, Sir, Eh...?

"For our Mother says you're our Father...and that's good enough for us!"

[Octafish]

8. LOLOL, Sir!

There's probably no need to bring up the other article, Why stressed-out women are more likely to have girls then. Wonder what they'd think about endocrine disruption?

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. "How do you know who your Daddy is?"

"Cuz your Momma told you so."

[Ikonoklast]

5. Real Men's sons aren't sterile.

Seems that some of Romney's progeny is genetically defective in the reproductive area.

[CatWoman]

7. could be from all the inbreeding that occurred during Grandpa Romney's excellent adventures

in Mexico.

[Octafish]

9. Maybe that's why all the wives.

It's weird, though, when the family tree doesn't have any branches.

[Octafish]

11. It's an Aryan Thing.

Eugenics and the NAZIs - The California Connection

[seabeyond]

3. This, again, is why "from an evolutionary point of view" all women should

say... fuck this evolutionary psych bullshit the men are promoting so hard because it is all about misogyny.

[HockeyMom]

6. "I like DAUGHTERS"

That is what he used to tell people when they would ask him when were we going to try for a boy (2 daughters). Well for a Republican, he gets some things right once in a while.

[exboyfil]

14. That question always irritated me

after my second daughter was born. It was like she was of less value because she was a girl and not a boy. I just thank God that he gave me such wonderful daughters. I did not find out before the birth for either girl. One is planning to be an engineer and the other is planning to be a surgeon. Both are smarter than me.

As my girls get older I have found a greater appreciation of what challenges women face. My wife is a traditional stay at home mom (her choice). Neither daughter seems too interested in that life.

[Xyzse]

10. Hrm... GW Bush only had daughters...

I mean, he was a cheer leader too.

To think, that for some time they were trying to equate him to Leonidas. They really have no way to keep their logical arguments straight.

[nanabugg]

12. So their mothers were the progeny of fake men???

[prairierose]

13. .... and if he was a dairy bull....

you'd butcher him because bulls that throw only male offspring don't grow the herd. If you are a dairyman or a rancher, you want a bull that throws female offspring.....just sayin...


I guess I should probably add this...

[nanabugg]

15. So what do they call men who have homosexual children? My dad had both. I still think he is a real

man.

[JHB]

16. Schadenfreude: William F. Buckley is spinning so fast...

...the Koch brothers want to dig him up and use him as a drill bit.

He spent his entire adult life trying to make conservatism intellectually respectable, to disassociate the word from the Birchers, backwoods bible thumpers, and the budding Randites. He worked to make it appear to stand on principle, not pure mouth-foam. National Review was his flagship for "thoughtful" conservatism.


And now the loons have eaten his movement! His baby is putting out pure claptrap that even he'd recoil from! (Jonah Goldberg, anyone?)

Buckley was always a pompous, vicious prick, and this would have hit him right where he was most vulnerable: his vanity as an "intellectual".

[hifiguy]

17. Let the mockery begin.

Such blatant dumbassery. And so par for the Repig course.