Jezebel of Evil Slutopia quotes right-wing troll Glenn Beck who, after deciding it’s not enough to slander his own partner, three daughters, plus the remaining 51% of the population decides to slander men as well. (Their source is from Beck and a colleague discussing Scott Brown’s victory speech.)
GLENN: Guys you can figure out: Food, sex. That’s it.
STU: Two step process.
GLENN: It really is. Feed me, make love to me, let me sleep.
STU: Sleep, yeah. That would be the third, sleep.
GLENN: Come on.
STU: That’s pretty much the bottom line.
Actually, technically, what Beck and his broadcast partner are doing is setting an expectation for men: anything besides sex and food should be irrelevant to us or, being a little more specific, everything else a man might want should be secondary. Dispensable. Defer-able.
Note also the expectations he sets: the main things men need “Feed me, make love to me” must be given to him. He can’t do them himself!
Given by or… maybe with a diamond, maybe with a couple of roofies… gotten from someone.
And given Beck’s presumption that all men are heterosexual who, exactly, is he expecting to “feed me, make love to me, let me sleep?” Women, or as he puts it, “psychos.” Who just don’t understand that all they should bother men with are feeding him, fucking him, and letting him sleep.
Yeah, that would make me psycho too. I fear for his little girls. Not because he’ll expect them to feed him and fuck him. But because he’s saying he’ll give them absolutely no support… and just tell them they’re psychos… if when they’re older they want more from a partner than someone to feed or fuck to sleep.
Listen, flipping male flatworms want more out of life than food and sex and all they’ve got is primitive notochords, but Beck is adamant that’s all men want?
Round-y side of the spoon down when you try to eat soup, dude.
To be fair, I am found of
Submitted by SnowdropExplodes (not verified) on Fri, 2010-01-29 12:39.To be fair, I am found of quoting what I call the Snowdrop Doctrines:
1/. Food is Good
2/. Sleep is Good
3/. [sex/caffeine/telly/game/whatever-we’re-talking-about-right-now] is Good
But, as you can see, Doctrine 3 is somewhat flexible in interpretation!
The thing is, if “food, sex, sleep” is it, where does he think things like, oh, for example, the US Constitution, the Magna Carta, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, etc came from Where does he think Bach, Beethoven, Schubert came from? Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Yeats? Newton, Einstein, Faraday? Buddha, St Paul, Mohammed?
[If he’s being true to his principles he doesn’t think about any of those things at all. Personally, though, I’m still reeling over the fact that his “all men want” are things that have to be gotten from someone else. You know how dependency builds resentment? You know how he calls the people he depends on to provide him with food and fucking psychos? Bingo. Thanks, SE. p.s. I’m obviously not saying we don’t need food, sex, or sleep. I’m saying we need a heck of a lot more than that. —fl]
“I’m still reeling over the
Submitted by SnowdropExplodes (not verified) on Fri, 2010-01-29 15:24.“I’m still reeling over the fact that his “all men want” are things that have to be gotten from someone else.”
Aye. The Snowdrop Doctrines generally come out when someone else says they are going to get their own food, etc. So Beck is just – well, we know what he is!
“You know how he calls the people he depends on to provide him with food and fucking psychos? Bingo.”
Ah, good point! And that ties right back in to early 2nd-wave/radical feminist analysis, like in Shulamith Firestone and such!
[Exactly! I wasn’t suggesting the Snowdrop Doctrine was the same as the Beck Doctrine by the way. Thanks, SE. —fl]
Glenn Beck is a moron,
Submitted by ozymandias (not verified) on Fri, 2010-01-29 13:24.Glenn Beck is a moron, because he disproves his own bloody argument.
I mean, he’s already married, isn’t he? Being the de facto leader of America’s homegrown fascist movement doesn’t give him any more sex than he’d get otherwise. Really, he should be working a part-time job to get enough money for food and otherwise never leave his bed.
[Agreed. Thanks, O. —fl]
I don’t see any slander here.
Submitted by Me (not verified) on Sun, 2010-01-31 12:34.I don’t see any slander here. You think I have to be offended? But I am not. The reason is exactly because I am a taker, I take what I want, so anyone’s opinion on what I need does not bother me at all. And by the same reason I don’t need to be liked, so I don’t have to pretend to be worthy for handing down anything neither by the Senator nor by women nor by anybody else.