Column: My Own Random Idaho
More Men Than Women Skeptical of President Obama
A worthless blog post to calm the panic.
By Jill Kuraitis, 3-22-09
A joke among women is that you can’t change a man’s habits, no matter how odious or …well, no matter what.
My otherwise perfect husband doesn’t close cabinets and drawers despite 27 years of asking him, the doofus.
A common complaint is that husbands strip off their tee-shirts inside out, thus requiring us to turn them back when folding clean laundry. “It doesn’t take extra time or effort to take them off right-side-out – no skin off their noses,” we say. We make him do his own laundry for awhile, but he puts reds with whites, knowing we’ll start doing it again. Rolling our eyes, we diagnose passive-aggressiveness.
Some men don’t like it if you change the location of something, like the dishtowel drawer. Often, they never adapt to this inexplicable decision on your part, and open the old one for years. And asking for help rearranging the furniture is a BIG mistake. “What’s wrong with it the way it is?” they want to know.
(Rearranging should be done when they are out of town.)
Since they’re busy thinking about sex (so we are told) men tend to be unobservant. That’s why the tracking in of animal crap is more often done by males, and then men don’t understand that the nasty stuff could permanently ruin the carpet their salaries helped pay for. “Stop being hysterical,” they calmly say, deftly making it our fault. Neat trick, darling morons. Do you think we haven’t caught onto this?
Here should be inserted alleged examples of infuriating things women do and habits we refuse to change, but there aren’t any. We are never annoying. Men should emulate us. I have statistics to prove it.
All this illustrates why I suspect that more men than women are afraid of President Obama.
According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, eight million more women than men voted for Obama. Obama lead with women by about 14 per cent, and McCain lead about four percent with men, according to Polimetrix, a firm which surveyed 26,000 voters for its statistics.
(We all know statistics should be viewed with a squinty eye, but eight million is a pretty big margin of error, don’t you think?)
Imagine what the anti-change men heard when they heard campaign pundits say, “Change vs. More of The Same.” SKY FALLING! SOFA FACING THE WRONG WAY! SHUT UP! WE ARE MULTISLACKING JUST FINE!
It’s telltale, some of us believe, that most TV economists are men, and most TV economists are seriously wigged out about President Obama’s actions to help fix the economy. WE ARE IN THIS TRAIN AND WE ARE USED TO ITS ROUTE! THAT’S HOW WE ROLL, MAN!
I know a man who isn’t the least impressed that Obama said, “I screwed up,” something much admired by women. He’s thinking YOU PANSY-ASS TRAITOR! NOW WE MIGHT HAVE TO ADMIT FAULT, TOO!
No doubt many of you are going to point out that plenty of men do like Obama, and plenty of women don’t, and some guys change habits easily, and lots of women don’t, and I should quit this sexist, hypocritical stereotyping. You are right. I should. It’s outrageous.
But that would upset my comfortable view, and I like it just the way it is.
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Successful hunting is all about knowing where to find your prey.
A place for everything, and everything in it's place.
Is that so hard to understand?
Except for that apostrophe. Some woman sitting next to me stuck that in there just before I hit "Submit."
Comment By chuck, 3-22-09I love the smell of sexist tripe in the morning. Smells like fail.
Comment By Kevin, 3-23-09Are you kiddingme? Maybe it is just that men can tell a socialist when they see one, duh!
Comment By Kitty, 3-23-09Have you been drinking the same stuff Barry did before Kroft asked him if he were "punch drunk"? Because I just can't follow your logic.
You call your husband a "doofus" for not closing drawers and a "darling moron" for trying to deflect blame for tracking in dog crap. Then you try to facetiously state that women are never annoying. And all of this leads you to conclude that "more men than women are afraid of President Obama."
Maybe the idea of Obama following Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" doesn't worry you, but it worries me.
Obama is purposely bankrupting our country while our enemies are going nuclear. He's packed his cabinet with criminals, and he's going after private citizens. And that's just for starters.
We are living in interesting times. God help us all.
Now, clean the carpet.
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Oh, for crying out loud. It wasn't meant to be logical. I clearly stated that the post is worthless.
Comment By Kitty, 3-23-09Yeah, I know.
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Well, Jill, maybe someday you can publish a book titled "The Worthless Posts of Jill Kuraitis". And thanks for admitting that we have you gals to thank for the current regime. I would add the younger cohort of both sexes: 18 to 30, some mostly --thanks to the schools--extremely dumb people. As for your own demographic, I think, as usual, it's a case of voting while employing emotion rather than logic. America's feminist heart went out to Obama, and its brain stayed home, if there is such a thing as a feminist brain as compared to a feminist consciousness. Though there seems to be some buyers remorse, if yesterday's NY Times is any indication. Even Maureen Dowd is perplexed, along with that erudite crossdresser Frank Rich. And lastly, thanks for that window into your marriage; now we know what it's like to be married to Jill Kuraitis. Actually, there's an idea you could pitch to Hollywood for a Reality show.And why is your husband's hair purple? Did you do that?
Comment By Tom von Alten, 3-23-09At least the "worthless posts" have more entertainment value than the worthless comments with gratuitous false innuendo, Bill.
It helps to have a sense of humor, rather than just a mean spirit.
Bill, a "mean spirit"? Nah, he's more of a curmudgeon.
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Hey Bill, I have two words for you:
Sarah Palin.
Jill, I, too, am troubled that you would use a photo of a guy with purple hair to illustrate a "differences between men and women" column. Guys with purple hair blur that line... as do women who wear flannel shirts and attach their wallet to their belt with a chain.
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Are we back in stereotype land again? Or is it high school?
Comment By Bill Croke, 3-24-09Jay, Do you mean that woman up in Alaska with all that executive experience?--as compared to that community organizer in the White House? The Republic is dead; long live the Republic.
Comment By Jay Kanta, 3-24-09You're the one that implied that women shouldn't have the right to vote.
And all that executive experience? Yeah, she can see Russia!
Well I'm a heterosexual male and I think Obama is a class act doing an A+ job. And so is his wife. I've had purple hair in the past and may well again in the future. I've done a lot of the macho stuff and as I age I don't see the need for it anymore. Broads can be a nuisance for sure, always bitching, moaning and criticizing but so can old men who act like broads, bitching moaning and criticizing. My favorite sport is snoozing and male bonding isn't even on my bucket list.
Comment By Kitty, 3-24-09Jay obviously knows his geography because you can see Russia from Alaska. It's that close, which, as Jay realizes, was Gov. Palin's point.
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Ever try context, Kitty?
In the context of "executive experience", being able to see Russia is about as useful as a Bill Croke comment.
Obama is averaging a 65% approval rating. Zogby had an outlier that they are about to release showing 50%, but given the rapid ups and downs of an early Presidency, it really isn't indicative of much, yet.
Geitner's ratings are rising quickly, people approve of the stimulus, and the only people that are ranting are those that don't even know the definition of socialism. I'd say that Obama is doing pretty darn well so far.
Did you hear the one about Obama sending an official letter of greeting to former French President Jacques Chirac, instead of to current President Nicolas Sarkozy?
http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualites/2009/03/19/01001-20090319ARTFIG00357-confidentiel-barack-obama-a-ecrit-a-jacques-chirac-.php
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Never said that, Jay. Nor implied it. So much for you. Obama is about to pile on more debt than has been acumulated by all previous presidents combined. I would say his approval ratings in 6 months or so will be in the 20s-30s. It's all a bad idea. If you can't see that, there's no hope for you. But the Left wants the country to go down. Nothing new there. No more from me. You get the last word.
Comment By Kitty, 3-25-09The insurmountable debt for generations to come is not the only worry America faces with Barry at the helm. As Ralph Peters' said, 'AMERICA'S enemies smell blood and it's type "O." '
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This should give you a chill:
Islamic States Push to Criminalize 'Defamation of Islam'
"A powerful bloc of 57 Islamic states is again pushing for the UN to make it a criminal offense to criticise or ‘defame' Islam. In a new resolution circulated at a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 11, a paper entitled "Combating Defamation of Religions" was circulated ahead of the Council's next meeting on March 26-27, when the resolution will be voted on."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/islamic_states_push_to_crimina.html
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OK, so you denigrate women voters. You echo the sentiments of Ann Coulter, who has stated that women shouldn't have the right to vote.
And I'd be more than willing to take that bet with you, Bill.
As a matter of economics, our level of debt is done to pay for the riches lost during the Bush years. If Bush and his moronic cronies had listened to real economists instead of giving feel good speeches to try to get Republicans elected, we wouldn't be here today, and government spending wouldn't have been needed nearly as much.
But please, keep grasping for those libertarian straws, Bill, and please keep attacking Jill.
As for Kitty, you might want to check your closet, I heard that some horrible Muslims were looking to use it as a base.
Jay, Never said any of that. You continue to miscontrue everything I say. You're not a very clear thinker. You seem to to have a formulaic argument ready for anything you disagree with. Shoddy thinking there.
Comment By Jay Kanta, 3-28-09Yeah, Bill, it's just me that sees that you're a fool and a misogynist.
Comment By Bill Croke, 3-29-09Jay, Oh, and I forgot, name-calling. Your greatest rhetorical-polemical strength. Cheers.
Comment By Jesse Dietzel, 4-25-09See these are the words of a very mis-guided self serveing person! In fact i am male 26 yrs of age and will guarontee my skill in the kitchen againts that of yours anyday there Prinses kuraitis! Yes sure you in fact should move things around constaintly that way you can prove your better than men right? Or that your particular man happens to have a short comeing thus you can market appon to other bias women such as yourself right?
You are a twit!How you can get work published when it has such gender biased bigetry in it is absured! If you were to say that african-american males alone were like this it quite litteraly would be elegal. as it is discriminatory in nature!
In closeing your a bigot, whom has bias attitude toward men, and yet threw out this intire thing did i see one refrence to ONE PEICE of FACTUAL information, thus i conclude you are stupid and speak of things to witch you are uneducated and have no obvious room to talk!