Slog - Comments on Dan Savage: Total Girl http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl Dan says: Of course it’s homophobic to insult a straight man by calling him a homosexual—whatever term you use. The joke invokes pure homophobic prejudice, i.e. the notion that being gay is so self-evidently revolting, so disgusting, that simply associating a straight man with homosexuality or homosexuals diminishes him and makes him ridiculous. Coulter’s joke—calling Edwards a sissy or a faggot or whatever—amused the attendees at CPAC because it lumped him, a heterosexual man with a wife and three kids, in with them, all those less-than-men homosexuals with their limp wrists and sissified ways. Which is nothing at all like... Copyright 2008 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:04:21 -0800 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:53:21 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by terry miller Erica C. Barnett: Tiresome

]]> terry miller http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659798 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659798 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:08:17 -0800 Comment by terry miller Just Kiddin'!

]]> terry miller http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659803 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659803 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:10:14 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me Wow ECB, your bitterness just festers as you nurse it on your feminist sensitivities.

You’ve been waiting for a long time to have the opportunity to make this post haven’t you?

Silly, silly girl.

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659807 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659807 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:12:09 -0800 Comment by bill @3, shouldn't ECB be called a "silly boy" by the logic of this story and its thread?

and if anyone needs to be mocked and have their masculinity called into question, it's football players.

]]> bill http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659813 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659813 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:16:54 -0800 Comment by elswinger I have to agree with Erica. If calling some hetero jocks "faggots" is demeaning to gays, then why is calling them feminine slurs any lest disrespectful to women. If next year's team is so bad why not just call them the "Shithawks"? I mean, everyone shits.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659814 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659814 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:18:17 -0800 Comment by Moo Cow Apples and oranges. If Dan had called Mikey Holmgren a f@ggot, different story.

]]> Moo Cow http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659816 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659816 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:20:51 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO That's why I stick to "Seahags." It is only insulting to Alice the Goon.

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659820 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659820 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:24:50 -0800 Comment by David Wright Touche!

]]> David Wright http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659827 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659827 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:30:52 -0800 Comment by Bizarro World ECB Let it be known that I support building strip clubs alongside a brand-new viaduct. And allowing dogs in them.

]]> Bizarro World ECB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659829 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659829 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:31:59 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage No, no -- Erica nailed me.

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659855 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659855 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:44:58 -0800 Comment by beep re: #10

...and you're man enough to admit it. or girl enough.

]]> beep http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659892 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659892 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:55:37 -0800 Comment by jamier Erica C. Barnett: hero.

]]> jamier http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659985 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659985 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:26:33 -0800 Comment by Noink I wish I were gay.

Oh, and -
"No, no -- Erica nailed me."
Does there exist video of this event? :D

]]> Noink http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659994 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c659994 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:29:54 -0800 Comment by Juris God, Noink, I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.

I mean.... eheh...

]]> Juris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660013 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660013 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:45:46 -0800 Comment by P. Schell I FUCKING hate hypocrites.

]]> P. Schell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660102 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660102 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:21:59 -0800 Comment by Shakespeare's Sister Erica--Thank you.

]]> Shakespeare's Sister http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660133 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660133 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:50:31 -0800 Comment by BAFFLES Dan, she did not call Edwards the faggot. Relisten to the conversation as a journalist. You will find it is not there. And you need to get the comment in context with the I. Washington situation.

]]> BAFFLES http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660226 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660226 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:32:38 -0800 Comment by dw Dan, she did not call Edwards the faggot. Relisten to the conversation as a journalist. You will find it is not there.

Ever heard of Cicero's favorite rhetorical device, praeterition? Maybe you should.

praeterition 1. The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past. 2. A rhetorical device in which the speaker emphasizes something by omitting it.

Coulter used a praeterition in that statement. She said it by not directly saying it.

]]> dw http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660275 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660275 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:04:36 -0800 Comment by Suz Damn straight Erica!

]]> Suz http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660280 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660280 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:07:44 -0800 Comment by Josh I was going to leave a comment about Baffles, but it turns out that calling someone an ignorant jackass is rude, so... *shrug*

]]> Josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660363 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c660363 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:52:14 -0800 Comment by BAFFLES Josh needs to go into rehab.

And dw, I agreed with what all of you were saying after I listened to it for several times till I caught what she was referring to.

The reference to I. Washington going to rehab for using the word "faggot" was what she was referring to.

I mean that "joke" was way over my head, too, but that is to be expected for an "ignorant jackass". Oops, does that mean I have to go into rehab, too?

]]> BAFFLES http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c661238 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c661238 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:40:08 -0800 Comment by Josh What are you talking about? I never called you an ignorant jackass. Re-read my comment. You will find it is not there.

]]> Josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c661400 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c661400 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:22:16 -0800 Comment by BAFFLES You got me rolling Josh. Good one.

]]> BAFFLES http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c661704 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c661704 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:49:51 -0800 Comment by McDermott "Erica nailed me."

Just so long as she didn't peg you, Dan. That would make my head assplode.

]]> McDermott http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c667602 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/dan_savage_total_girl#c667602 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:53:21 -0800