Neanderpundit

Says he thinks it’s logical to register guns, because the sex offender registry has worked so well. I can’t find the exact quote, but it’ll be around soon enough.

Discuss.

After you shoot something, of course.

in my life are as good as watching the ogwife engage in the simple act of wriggling her backside into a pair of jeans, in the morning.

is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.-Thomas Babington Macaulay.

In the post wednesday I opened a can of worms by making the statement that all women deserve to be treated like ladies. Apparently, many disagree.

Apparently, more people than I thought were assholes.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.-Gautama Buddha

Look, people, Charity means nothing if you do it for the public acclaim, or for the tax deduction. Doing the right thing is of no value if it’s for an audience, and being a gentleman is worthless if you only practice it on people who deserve it. It’s easy to hold the door for the hot blonde with the pretty smile. It’s easy to treat your Mom like a lady.

it is precisely the women who DO NOT seemingly deserve your gentility who need it most. And there is no greater satisfaction, to me, than going out of my way to be especially gracious to the most annoying person I meet in a given day.

When you decide that a given woman is not worthy of being treated like a lady, you take on the role of God. You believe you know enough about that woman, whoever she is, to make a value judgement that she does not deserve to be treated properly. me, I’m not messing with the Creator.

This doesn’t mean treating women like china dolls, wrapped in tissue and packaged in styrofoam. It means being polite. Being kind. Opening building doors, closing car doors. Making sure she is seated first at dinner. Making sure she orders first. That sort of thing.

it also doesn’t mean being some kind of humorless sexless victorian dweeb. You can treat a woman with respect and argue with her. Or flirt. Or tell bawdy stories or sing bawdy ballads, even, if you have arrived at that level of relationship, and you are sure the subject of the “entertainment” is appropriate to the relationship. Gentility is not a straightjacket.

No, I don’t care how you act around your family and friends. I don’t have any interest in telling anyone what to do. OA accused me of “making a strong statement”. In fact, I made a true statement. he then accused me of “painting myself into a corner”. it seems I have; a corner where the few remaining gentlemen live. I’m perfectly happy here; it’s a place where men do what is right because it’s right, and don’t do what they damned well feel like, just because they “feel” like it. You want to treat other people’s wives, mothers, daughters as less than ladies, go ahead. God apparently loves classless pieces of shit, he made so many. If people think I’m stupid because I treat women like ladies when “they” don’t think those women deserve it, I’ll wear their “Stupid” as a badge of honor.