I’ve been reading blog and after blog that has consistently misquoted and assumed much about Ann Coulter’s latest tomb, “Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America”. I must admit, I, too, dislike Ann’s tone and delivery. The truth is, it gets her an outstanding paycheck and we’d all be lying if we said we didn’t understand that. It doesn’t excuse it, but it does, in fact, explain it.
With all that being said, most of what she says in the book simply can’t be argued with, regardless of if that hurts your feelings or not. Ann doesn’t blast widowed mothers, and merely holds divorcees up to the light so they can see themselves. Most people DO get married too soon and most people get divorced just as quickly without really thinking about their kids and what they’re putting them through. OH! They CLAIM to, but the truth is they “just couldn’t put up with him/her anymore”. Again, whether that hurts your feelings or not, it’s the truth. And neither Ann nor myself are referring to women who are abused, so don’t pull that card.
The facts are that her book is more specifically referring to women who spread their legs and then act like they can’t imagine how this happened. Pregnancy isn’t a virus! You didn’t “catch” being pregnant. These women entered into a volitional act with men who weren’t their husbands and don’t owe them one single thing. THEN they pretend like they are somehow a “victim”. Back on planet Earth, we refer to them as sluts and whores. Especially these women who have 3 and 4 kids with multiple men they have never been married to.
No one, not even the morons on The View, could argue her statistics and facts. The best they had was the she was “mean”. Ummm….yeah, whatever. I’d much rather someone be mean than get a free ride by popping out illigitimate children for tax payers money to support. The facts are, if you can’t afford a child, you shouldn’t be allowed to keep that child. What right do these women have to screw around and then expect to be “kept” by the American taxpayer?
First of all, if they can find their way down to the local DSS office to collect welfare, food stamps and apply for Section 8 housing, then they can sure as hell head over to the health department for condoms and birth control. After all, those are provided free of charge at the expense of the taxpayer, as well. The only difference is, you don’t get to pretend to be a “victim”. You actually have to work for everything else you have. Novel thought to some, I know.
Can anyone really argue that the traditional family isn’t the better route as they defend these poor, unwed mothers who “somehow” found themselves pregnant? They teach sex education in the SIXTH grade now. They didn’t somehow find themselves pregnant. They slept with some guy and he knocked her up. SURPRISE!
And to all the “What about the Dad’s responsibility?” criers…Look, most men will sleep with anyone of fairly decent aesthetics that can form a cohesive sentence and we all know it. Sorry, guys…we’ve seen you at Spring Break. Unless they are your husband they don’t owe you ANYTHING and you know that going in. Pro-choicers can’t have it both ways. Either it’s a woman’s body and HER choice, or it’s not. Since we all know that the court’s have now ruled that it IS her choice, then my suggestion would be that she should act like it. You CHOSE to have sex with your body, now take some responsibility for it.
If you can’t afford that child, then do it a favor and give it to someone who can not only afford but would love it. Love is a verb, not a noun. Act like you love your kid and quit being a statistic. I’ve read so many comments on blogs today about people who “know” a single mother and she’s a great person. Really? Why don’t you let their kid determine that, you don’t live with them. Have you ever been hungry? Have you ever read the statistics on how many single parent run-aways there are? Or how many prison inmates come from single family homes? If not, then hush…you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. TRY to get some knowledge and not be led around by your heart that is, obviously, able to be swayed by anyone’s sob story.
Single mothers, not divorcees or widows, are NOT victims. Their children are the victims and it’s time that America takes a stand on this. It’s time that Americans stop acting like this is fine and these poor, poor women are doing the “best they can”. No, they’re not. They could have kept their legs closed and made a different choice. Please quit acting like they had no choice, because they did or every woman would be a single mom, correct? It’s a choice, so they are NOT victims.
I don’t agree with most of what Ann Coulter says, but she hit this one on the head. It’s time that we stop being so politically correct that we can’t look a woman in the eye who has 3 or 4 kids by multiple men, whom they’ve never been married to, and call them what they are: whores and free loaders. They are not victims, they are making victims out of their children and the American people. It’s time to grow a pair and call them on it.
