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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 5:42amSanction this postReply
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I shared this with a coworker and he replied:
Such screams fall under the category of IJUW -- the Ideology of Jilted Ugly Women.
What a hoot!


Luke Setzer


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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 6:56amSanction this postReply
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Gloria Steinem is an attractive woman who does not fit this stereotype...

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 8:31amSanction this postReply
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This was not one of Ayn Rand's finer moments.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 8:51amSanction this postReply
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Oh, come on, Ayn Rand can be permitted a little joke now and then--especially since her foes often use such comments as arguments.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:28amSanction this postReply
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I think this statement is hilarious -- classic Rand.  :)

And I honestly can't say I disagree with her.


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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:34amSanction this postReply
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I have always thought AR had a great sense of humor. The Fountainhead made me laugh several times with its jokes, and so did Atlas Shrugged.

Jennifer, you're obviously not a Women’s Lib feminist.


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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 12:26pmSanction this postReply
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Good lord, I was hoping this would cheer people up. It is, after all, one of the rare examples of Ayn Rand the Comedian.

Thanks Jen and Rodney, for getting it.

Of course, Ayn Rand the Satirist was a much more frequently seen person, especially on the pages of the Fountainhead. 


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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 4:06pmSanction this postReply
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Alec, I am always up for observational wit.  ;)

By the way, where did you find this quote?


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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 8:57pmSanction this postReply
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It's from her essay "The Age of Envy", which is in her book The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution


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Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 7:47pmSanction this postReply
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Denouncing masculine oppression, Women's Lib screams protests against the policy of regarding women as "sex objects"—through speakers who, too obviously, are in no such danger.

Rand, Ayn; Schwartz, Peter (1999-01-01). The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (p. 148). Penguin Group. Kindle Edition.

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Friday, October 11, 2013 - 3:06amSanction this postReply
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Rand did have quite the sense of humor.

"A cultural movement often produces caricatures of itself that emphasize its essence. The hippies are one such caricature. These ecological crusaders-who would pollute any stream by stepping into it-are the..."

The above quote is also from The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (pg. 147).

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Luke,

One of the signs reads "LAP DANCING CLUBS NOT WANTED HERE". Evidently, if there is a lap dancing club on the way (which is indicated by the protest), someone must want it there.

Does the woman claim to speak for the entire neighborhood? Is she speaking for "Society"? Her sign doesn't specify who she is speaking for, but it says a club is not wanted there, so I'll assume she is speaking for everyone's wants. She's attempting to give her argument weight by saying, or, in this case, implying, that everyone agrees with it.

Classic politics. Everyone agrees, jump in the pit.

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Friday, October 11, 2013 - 11:19amSanction this postReply
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The passive phrase "not wanted here" amounts to the smuggling of intrinsicist philosophy into the minds of the audience. The author speaks as if the proposed club is "intrinsically" not wanted ... as if it amounts to an intrinsic aspect of the proposal like proposed bricks and mortar. Beware of the passive voice in reading and writing.

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Friday, October 11, 2013 - 3:15pmSanction this postReply
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This is a precursor of Women's Lib.

http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu119/lefty33/Justbeforeprohibiiton.jpg.html

I think the little biddy in the front center is kinda cute.

Sam

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Friday, October 11, 2013 - 4:38pmSanction this postReply
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Here is the image for those who had difficulty with Sam's link.

Thanks to gender equality, today's women can be just as vicious drunks as men!

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 10/11, 5:01pm)


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Friday, October 11, 2013 - 4:45pmSanction this postReply
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My goodness, what a angry, sour looking bunch! If I were married to one of them, I'd be looking for the nearest speak-easy.

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Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 6:43amSanction this postReply
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I can only surmise that the liquor lobby must have hired this motley crew to pose for this, otherwise the sign would have spontaneously burst into flame from such a concentration of anger and ugliness.

Sam

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Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 2:21pmSanction this postReply
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This has gone on long enough! By what objective standard is it an expression of self-esteem to pay a girl for a lap dance?

You have a perfect political right -albeit in abeyance - to smoke crack cocaine, but it is not pro-life to do so.

As for the "biddies" - by which you mean bitches: calling women dogs - they lost their youth and beauty being wives and mothers -- at a time when dysentery, cholera, and typhoid killed half their children, when the median life expectancy was below 50 and likely only 35. They washed their family's clothing by hand, for hours at a time in soaps that they likely made themselves from ashes and fats... when not churning butter, mending clothing, and cooking all day on a wood-fired stove - those that had stoves and not mere fireplaces.

What you consider by today's standards "beautiful" women of the 19th century were idealized abstractions which did not exist, or else were the idle rich.

When you respond positively to the physical attractiveness of another human being, you are reflecting your own view of the best in human nature, whether or not that person actually possesses such virtues.

When you demean a woman for not being physically attractive according to an arbitrary cultural standard, you negate her mind. You negate her mind when you pay her for your own momentary sexual stimulation.



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Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 4:28pmSanction this postReply
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Michael:
I take your point but I'm not making fun of something that they have no control over, i.e. their physical appearance. These are a bunch of strident, take-no-prisoners tyrants who would impose their views by force of law. I know that alcoholism was rampant and a grave social problem but we know that, as advocates of libertarian principles, prohibition wasn't the answer. I don't think that their unattractiveness came about by their drudgery, I think that their attitude was a result of their unattractiveness, much like the women's lib members ...Gloria Steinem excepted.

And "biddies" isn't just another word for "bitches" or "dogs". A biddy, in my mind, is just a clucking hen.

Sam


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Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 9:19pmSanction this postReply
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Per Google:

bid·dy
/ˈbidē/
noun informal
noun: biddy; plural noun: biddies
1. a woman, usually an elderly one regarded as annoying or interfering.
"the old biddies were muttering in his direction"


On lap dances, I explained myself on this site in 2005 here and my assessment remains the same eight years later.

I also reviewed a documentary about a legal Nevada brothel here in 2006.

The bottom line is that the minds of both woman and man play a mutual key role in the adult entertainment industry. Men who have the self-esteem to know they deserve the entertainment for the right price meet with women who have the self-esteem to provide the entertainment for the right price. As with entertainment in general, the minds of both artist and appreciator must engage for optimal experience.

I would actually call this exchange frequently more moral and mindful than the adolescent and destructive drama of hookups masquerading as romantic relationships these days. I know there are other alternatives to this false dichotomy such as masturbation and celibacy as well as the highest expression of sexuality, romantic love. I simply suggest the flippant dismissal of the aforementioned forms of value exchange as "life-diminishing" has no basis in reality.

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 10/12, 9:24pm)


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Sunday, October 13, 2013 - 1:22amSanction this postReply
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Luke,

I'm impressed! High self-esteem lap dances. You carried that off with a straight face :-)

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