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When In Hole, Stop Digging

Oh, this is priceless. Our buddy Dan Riehl defends himself against charges that the best argument he could come up with against Amanda was that he didn’t want to fuck her by saying that he does, too, want to fuck her — and Jessica, too!

What I was pointing out was that endlessly hurling vulgar insults at men, constantly accusing them of objectifying women, but then going on to post an image of herself compared to a B movie skin princess appears emblematic of the usually disjointed, intellectually immature, confused and obviously un-informed, as well as tragically closed-minded personality type behind so much of Marcotte’s vulgar prose we’ve all read plenty of recently.

That doesn’t mean I’d throw her, or the complaining blogger out of bed.

So cheer up, ladies! Dan Riehl thinks you’re fuckable! Well, except for one little detail about Jessica:

Unfortunately, given this:

She has a Masters degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University

I’ll just assume the self-obsession that propelled her to study herself in college, ugh, carries over to the bedroom so that she’s either A: not much good as a partner, or B: without need of one, as her genderized-naval gazing has broadened since college.

But then most Leftist bloggers always look like they’re playing with themselves, anyway – just as this one was when she wrote her mis-informed post suggesting I said something I never did.

Sorry, Jess. You don’t meet the standards of the Riehl World Love Machine. But he is happy to imagine you typing with one hand.

(Via a comment from the Love Machine himself, here.)


31 thoughts on When In Hole, Stop Digging

  1. Amanda and Jessica will now proceed to wrassle nekkid in a pool of strawberry preserves. Winner gets to suck Dan Riehl’s cock. Get to it, ladies!

  2. “as her genderized-naval gazing has broadened since college.”

    Yes, I too have developed a fetish for sea-going ships since graduating college. I spend many a weekend in San Diego with my binoculars, gazing upon the steel bulwarks of the naval ships in the bay. I, however, do not restrict myself to ships of just one gender–so called “genderized-naval gazing” has no place among true aficionados.

    (Navel… sigh).

  3. What I was pointing out was that endlessly hurling vulgar insults at men, constantly accusing them of objectifying women, but then going on to post an image of herself compared to a B movie skin princess appears emblematic of the usually disjointed, intellectually immature, confused and obviously un-informed, as well as tragically closed-minded personality type behind so much of Marcotte’s vulgar prose we’ve all read plenty of recently.

    Is he still confused as to why Amanda posted the picture comparing herself and Shannon Elizabeth, or is he just pretending to make himself look even stupider than he is?

    At that same website, I apparently have a striking resemblance to an Israeli pop star that I’ve never heard of, but if I post my picture and hers side-by-side, I’m not implying that I’m Israeli, or even Jewish. (Unlike Michael Richards, I’m aware that having Jewish friends doesn’t make me Jewish.)

  4. having Jewish friends doesn’t make me Jewish

    Why am I so tempted to make a crack or two about Richard “Some of my best friends are Jewish … and they say my step-father is my biological father and that he’s actually Jewish” Wagner?

  5. A woman studying Women’s and Gender Studies is studying herself? So if an artist studies Art History, is she studying herself? If an African-American studies African-American Studies, is she studying herself? Are old white dudes who study History studying themselves? Hey — aren’t all Anthropology majors “studying themselves?” How selfish!

  6. Dirty little secret about Riehl. He does not write well. Others do their vicious snark with much greater skill and wit. Read him, if you have the stomach. First time I read his slap at Jessica, his sloppy writing let me think he was slapping Amanda.

  7. raging red: I think he just means that a woman in a Women’s Studies class is losing valuable time that she could spend in learning how to be more useful and pleasing to men.

  8. his sloppy writing let me think he was slapping Amanda.

    Slapping at, please. I’ve seen blindfolded five-year-olds flail at pinatas with a greater degree of competence at what they’re doing than Dan Riehl is at this. Better form, too.

  9. Bitter Scribe: I think he just means…

    He’s probably just pissed ‘women’s studies’ doesn’t mean cleaning up his jizz rags and making sure there’s always a fresh bag of Cheetos in the cabinet. If you said “Women’s studies? Didn’t they use to call that home ec?” in his earshot, I bet he’d laugh.

  10. I took a class on gender roles for my degree that was basically about women in how they were treated compared to men. (It was a great class. Totally pissed me off.) I don’t know if that means I’m so far gone that I’ve hit the point of “genderized-naval gazing,” but I do watch NCIS every week, and primarily to watch Mark Harmon.

    Hmmmm …

  11. She is studying herself because all women are the SAME but art through out history was produced by men and men are INDIVIDUALS, events were shaped throughout history before the Fall of Civilization, you know 1920, by men and men are INDIVIDUALS worthy of study.

    If you were really smart you would know how uninteresting and unwothy of attention women truly are. You know like they do.

  12. If a woman who majors in women’s studies is studying herself, what’s a psychology major studying? Or someone in medical school? Maybe some of these guys should become proctologists, then they could study themselves.

  13. You know, it’s sort of interesting that the exact comment thread that this post spawned out of – is the child of a post that really does little more than point out attractive bloggers and says “hey, these girls are hot and I want them to know that I think they’re hot”… But its alright, because hes on our side.

  14. I left this in the other thread, but what’s the harm of a repeat:

    What everyone forgets is that the Shannon Elizabeth thing was a joke in the first place, funny because Amanda got these results during a regular love/hate fest with Jeff Goldstein, who happened to write lots of conceptual pieces about Shannon Elizabeth at the time.

  15. Yes, I too have developed a fetish for sea-going ships since graduating college. I spend many a weekend in San Diego with my binoculars, gazing upon the steel bulwarks of the naval ships in the bay. I, however, do not restrict myself to ships of just one gender–so called “genderized-naval gazing” has no place among true aficionados.

    Well, I’d assume that the genderized part implies an affection for mastheads of a particular sex, (after all despite sometimes being named for males, all ships are femenine nouns).

  16. But, seriously folks we all know he really just wants to come out and call her a dyke (forgive the terminology, but in this case crudity is necessary to convey the proper feeling– the entire purpose of course of my disclaimer is to pre-empt the sort of witch hunt the Wingnuts appear to be engaged in with Amanda at the moment). Because let’s, face it she’d have to be either Sapphic or a narcissist to pursue a Graduate degree in Gender Studies (though, admittedly this raises an interesting point, that is to say I’d like to see real apply this same paradigm to an African- American Athlete in African-American studies* , somehow I have the feeling even Riehl would see how inherently prejudiced his statements were.)

    *Though admittedly most jocks taking the class aren’t exactly pursuing it in order to become the next West, just as most white jocks taking sociology aren’t planning on following in the footsteps of Hoffer. (As, an aside my favorite “Jock Major” was the one pursued by one of my favorite UF Football players “Recreation Management” which honestly sounds like a high-falutin’ term for party planner and/or a drug dealer).

  17. But, seriously folks we all know he really just wants to come out and call her a dyke

    Oh, we’ve got a loser in the moderation queue who comes right out and says it. Even includes jean shorts and workboots.

  18. zuzu, if they’re getting really colorful, perhaps it’s time for another round of “From the Special Moderation Queue!”

    We could even have troll bingo cards.

  19. Thanks for the link, I posted on his comments thread, which actually is pretty damn amusing for the onslaught he’s received. JC makes fun of him as well and of course, he uses JC’s photo shopping of him (donning him as Fred Flintstone for his global warming denials) as an excuse/comparison for his school boy poking of Amanda.

    Nevermind that it just underscores how he has apparently been completely unable to understand the context of Amanda’s post and photo.

  20. You know, it’s sort of interesting that the exact comment thread that this post spawned out of – is the child of a post that really does little more than point out attractive bloggers and says “hey, these girls are hot and I want them to know that I think they’re hot”… But its alright, because hes on our side.

    Actually, I don’t agree with that assessment at all. Alon was being ironic, for one thing, and also pointing out that the “You must be an ugly man-hater!” charge can’t stick to either Jessica or Amanda because both of them are attractive by any conventional standard.

    Also, his last paragraph pointed up the absurdity of the standards of someone like Riehl; nothing will make him happy. If the people you hire are unattractive women, they must be man-hating jealous dykes; if they’re attractive, they must be unserious.

  21. Yes, I too have developed a fetish for sea-going ships since graduating college. I spend many a weekend in San Diego with my binoculars, gazing upon the steel bulwarks of the naval ships in the bay. I, however, do not restrict myself to ships of just one gender–so called “genderized-naval gazing” has no place among true aficionados.

    I started laughing, couldn’t breathe, got something in my throat, and started hacking. Thanks!

  22. What everyone forgets is that the Shannon Elizabeth thing was a joke in the first place, funny because Amanda got these results during a regular love/hate fest with Jeff Goldstein, who happened to write lots of conceptual pieces about Shannon Elizabeth at the time.

    What’s funny is when it was pointed out repeatedly to Riehl that a lot of this stuff is a joke and, you know, funny, he called Jessica a bad feminist for being cheeky. Classic double bind. Feminists don’t have a sense of humor! This feminist does and that means she doesn’t take sexism seriously! Feminists are sluts! And they’re man-hating prudes! VAGINA DENTATA!!!!!!

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