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By: Dhaoxy

Dhaoxy — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 09:58:52 +0000

That’s really cool, thanks for sharing!

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 29 May 2014 01:31:39 +0000

Holy cow, Weinersmith has had the process automated: nurble, nurble

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By: blacktrance

blacktrance — Wed, 28 May 2014 19:09:14 +0000

A lot of the people in those comparisons differ in style, substance, or both, and I think those differences are more explanatory than the differences in gender. Also, from what I’ve seen, Falwell got more negative reactions than Schlafly did – probably because he was more prominent.

(Also, Hayek is only vaguely conservative, while Rand isn’t conservative at all.)

I think the negative reaction to Hillary Clinton has less to do with her as a woman and more with her as a Clinton. Bill Clinton was a successful Democratic president and remains popular today – popular in a way that Obama isn’t. I suspect a large proportion of opposition to her is based on fear.

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By: Nancy Lebovitz

Nancy Lebovitz — Wed, 28 May 2014 18:49:13 +0000

That’s remarkably hard to calibrate. I’d say the response to Limbaugh and Coulter has been fairly similar, and Rand and Hayek were doing sufficiently different things (high emotional charge novelist vs. medium intensity economist) that I wouldn’t put them in the same category even if their conclusions were similar.

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 28 May 2014 18:08:00 +0000

“Do progressives hate conservative men more than conservative women?”

No, they hate conservative women far more than conservative men. Observe progressive reactions to Ann Coulter vs Rush Limbaugh, or Sarah Palin vs Paul Ryan (or even Dan Quayle!), or Ayn Rand vs Freidrich Hayek, or Michelle Bachman vs John Boehner, or Phyllis Schlafly vs Jerry Falwell.

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By: Pthagnar

Pthagnar — Wed, 28 May 2014 12:32:55 +0000

That day has been and gone already. Perhaps eventually, for better or worse, neoreaction will become *more* than cant, but it seems unlikely.

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By: Zathille

Zathille — Wed, 28 May 2014 11:45:37 +0000

Just thought that the question of why conservatives object to Hillary Clinton could be asked without such negative valence, which i think would improve the chances of it not being taken as an insult.

Edit: when one advises another to try avoiding unnescessary negative-connotation wording, one should be sure to check if they’re following the same advice. Sorry.

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By: Nancy Lebovitz

Nancy Lebovitz — Wed, 28 May 2014 11:33:04 +0000

I think it’s fair to talk about hatred when I can’t tell what they’ve got against Hillary Clinton.

It’s possible that I’m not reading the right things, but it wasn’t hard to find out what left-wingers had against GW Bush.

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By: Zathille

Zathille — Wed, 28 May 2014 11:17:07 +0000

This question seems to pressupose it’s a matter of hatred rather than disagreement and political rivalry.

Consider a symmetrical question: “Do progressives hate conservative men more than conservative women?” I hope this explicitates the stereotyping implicit in the question.