Comments on: Dan Riehl, Bananas, Insert Usual Title

By: a different brad

a different brad — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:15:33 +0000

I like that in the comments Dan says he still thinks Amanda is attractive, even if he doesn’t want to sex her up. See, that makes it ok. He may have fallen prey to assuming part of how we take the measure of any female in the public sphere is whether Dan Riehl would want the chance to leave her sexually unsatisfied, but at least he didn’t mean to say she’s ugly. He didn’t treat her as a sexual object to demean her, I mean sheesh.

By: Lookit The Happy Monkey

Lookit The Happy Monkey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:38:00 +0000

Dan Riehl does too get it on with the ladies.

He has all the receipts to prove it!

And the gimp mask…

By: EdsAppliance

EdsAppliance — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:06:43 +0000

Why does Ruth Buzzi hate America so much?

By: Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:02:35 +0000

“TIME FOR GO TO BED!”

By: The Liberal Avenger

The Liberal Avenger — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:59:20 +0000

Douchebag!

By: dave

dave — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:57:13 +0000

Can’t Richard Mellon Scaife send a few bucks Dan’s way so that he can either (a) buy a rug that doesn’t look like it’s made of lacquer, or (b) get a haircut that doesn’t make him look like he’s wearing a bad rug?

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:56:50 +0000

Ganesh Bengal Cat is no longer speaking with Mehitabel the Abyssinian… any Abyssinian female who has been spayed obviously is looking for consequence-free sex
If the injuries on my arm are any guide, what Mehitabel is looking for is consequence-free random psychotic violence, but she will settle for consequence-free catnip.

By: devilbush

devilbush — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:47:26 +0000

FYI, that link goes to the Electronic Frontier Foundation; it’s not random spam. I wouldn’t do that to anyone. :D

By: devilbush

devilbush — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:45:53 +0000

Tor!

http://tor.eff.org/

By: Robert M.

Robert M. — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:36:15 +0000

Sporty said,

He just couldnâ€™t get the concept of â€œfemaleâ€? without that comforting old fallacy of â€œcastratiâ€?.

Wouldn’t that make it a phallusy?

By: ice weasel

ice weasel — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:08:04 +0000

Are we sure dan isn’t just an Onion character run amok?

By: steve_gilliard

steve_gilliard — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:01:05 +0000

Oh, I think he’ll stick to beating off to your picture like he’s been doing.

Maybe photoshop your head on his favorite pics.

But you don’t think he talks to women, do you.

By: Amanda Marcotte

Amanda Marcotte — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:52:27 +0000

Yes, Amanda, thatâ€™s it: People make fun of you because you wonâ€™t fuck them (rolls eyes).

If I said something so boring, you’d have a point. But I didn’t. I said that Dan Riehl doesn’t want to, and for some reason he thinks this news should be treated as anything but the good news it is. Please don’t hit me up for sex, Dan! I don’t know what I’d do!

By: tb

tb — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:52:16 +0000

Iâ€™d hit it.

Yeah, keep hope alive, fatso. If somebody blinds, lobotomizes and cripples her you might stand a chance.

By: shystee

shystee — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:36:30 +0000

also don’t forget Drew Friedman’s comic book “Any Similarities To Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental”, featuring lotsa Tor.

http://www.drewfriedmanart.com/books.html

“Bela, how many Tor?”

By: Sporty

Sporty — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:33:10 +0000

I think I’ve figured it out! In Dan’s world, there weren’t men and women so much as men and non-men*. All he knew about the non-men is that they didn’t have testicles and penises (peni?), so he thought they were castrati. At some point, someone probably tried to set him straight, so he started calling the not-men “female castrati”. He just couldn’t get the concept of “female” without that comforting old fallacy of “castrati”.

Now, Dan likes the old kind of ‘castrati’ who shave their armpits, wear makeup and just listen to him pontificate without any sort of criticism in their pretty little heads. Amanda, however, isn’t so demure and compliant. So, he calls her a “female neo-castrati” just because he’s the kind of guy who is careful about classifications and this new kind of non-man is just confusing to him (I mean, why not neo-female castrati? Wouldn’t that make more sense”?).

*h/t to The General!

By: craig

craig — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:18:49 +0000

Dan is a fun man. When the net gets boring, you can always check in to watch him out-stupid himself.

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:10:40 +0000

Just image google Shannon Elizabeth
I knew that Riehl would come up with a useful suggestion if you read enough of his columns.

By: owlbear1

owlbear1 — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:09:27 +0000

Its got to be a fetish.

By: Lassie

Lassie — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:01:28 +0000

Bark Bark!

Bark! Bark Bark!

Bark Bark! Bark Bark! Bark Bark!

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