quote:Yesterday, Politico published a leaked report commissioned by two Republican lobbying groups on how the party can better attract female voters. The report, based on a recent poll of 800 female registered voters as well as a series of focus groups, is titled “Republicans and Women Voters: Huge Challenges, Real Opportunities.” The central challenge facing the Republican party is that women—particularly single women and women who have graduated from college—are “barely receptive” to its policies, and are likely to consider the party “intolerant,” “lacking in compassion,” and “stuck in the past.”
Here’s where the “real opportunity” comes in: If only the Republicans could explain to these women that they are wrong, their votes would come flooding in. The report says that it is a “lack of understanding” between women and Republicans that “closes many minds to Republican policy solutions.” Republicans can attract the female vote by attacking the Democratic claim that GOP policies do not promote “fairness” for women and dealing “honestly with any disagreement on abortion” before moving on to “other issues.”
Today, R.R. Reno, editor of First Things (a journal that promotes “economic freedom” and a “morally serious culture”), published a very helpful essay illustrating how this fresh new strategy might work in practice. Reno begins his piece with a richly-drawn portrait of a hypothetical female Democratic voter: She is a “single, 35-year-old McKinsey consultant living in suburban Chicago who thinks of herself as vulnerable and votes for enhanced social programs designed to protect against the dangers and uncertainties of life.” (Reno does not specify the number of cats she owns, but for the purposes of this discussion, let's assume the answer is "several.") Reno speculates that this woman (whom he has invented and preprogrammed with opinions) feels “judged” by a Republican platform that opposes gay marriage, because “she intuitively senses that being pro-traditional marriage involves asserting male-female marriage as the norm—and therefore that her life isn’t on the right path.” So she votes for the Democrat, who does not appear to be “intolerant” of her lifestyle.
Here comes the part of the exercise where Reno carefully instructs this fantasy lady liberal that she has chosen poorly, and that the Republican party is the logical choice for a woman in her circumstance. This woman is suffering from "various kinds of personal unhappiness related to the lack of clear norms for how to live," Reno writes. She secretly “wants to get married and feels vulnerable because she isn’t and vulnerable because she’s not confident she can." And so, actually, she should support the party that wants to force people into traditional marriages, thus improving her chances of getting married herself. (Perhaps she can marry a gay man?) If only our hypothetical cat lady could get on board, she would get a husband, the Republicans would get another married woman to add to their key demographic, and gay people would get totally screwed. (Yay?)
In short, Republicans understand women plenty—it's women who don't understand themselves. Sounds like a promising strategy that will work with many, many sad single ladies that Republicans have invented in their brains. Next step: Finally granting imaginary women the right to vote.
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Perhaps you understand Samplish better than me, but shouldn't that be a happy face as it seems like he said he's getting better?
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the gluten tests keep producing invariably muddled results. it is suggested by the tests but the evidence threshold for, like, quantified certified status is not quite present. I continue to be on a doctor ordered exclusion diet while my <insert string of expletives> residual symptoms ease off and my <insert longer string of expletives> rheumatoid factor or gout markers or whatever are also checked
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i will not be a happy camper if my exclusion diet gets expanded temporarily to fodmap. that said, i have a couple of people i know who can live normally despite their previously crippling ibs because of fodmap
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Their problem is that they don't belong to a party that tells them eating gluten is good for America, and if they don't like it they should get out and go to France and eat surrender cheese.
Also, conception is an act of love, and it's "just two competing theories," and the problem is that both sides are just as bad, and you don't mess with a marine, because San Francisco liberals aren't the *real* America, guns don't kill people, they just help kill people faster and make you feel manly, and a marine will do most of it for you, and anyway everyone knows that a higher minimum wage causes inflation cause it's *obvious*, and the guy working at Starbucks is making Barack HUSSEIN Obama (what, I'm just stating his *full* name), a latte so he can disrespect the troops, no warriors, before there's boobs on the ground.
Did you notice that the wall-street protesters were *clutching* iPhones? Not just holding them. Clutching them. Because children and feeble women clutch things, like handbags, and rattles.
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: the gluten tests keep producing invariably muddled results. it is suggested by the tests but the evidence threshold for, like, quantified certified status is not quite present. I continue to be on a doctor ordered exclusion diet while my <insert string of expletives> residual symptoms ease off and my <insert longer string of expletives> rheumatoid factor or gout markers or whatever are also checked
I've gone semi gluten free, and though I do not have Celiac's, I can say that cutting the gluten out has helped me lose 25 pounds in two weeks, and I already feel like I have more energy.
My biggest worry was bread, as I love it. The only good gluten free bread I have been able to find is made by Udi's. They have it at Winco. (I think you are in California Samprimary, aren't you?)
Hope you are ok and that it isn't anything too serious.
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nearly all of the gluten free foods I rely on (including udis and rudi's bread) are actually worse for you nutritionally speaking if the goal is to lose weight. gluten free as a weight loss strategy? i have no idea how that would work
glutino bread is also good. it shares the same principle weaknesses of all gf bread (teensy baby loaves + easy early spoilage) but it's basically just, y'know, bread
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Is literally anyone else here following Australian politics? Abbot is what you would get if you took gwb, stripped out his earnest idealistic charm, and replaced it with a kind of suffocatingly sociopathic dunderheadedness.
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I want to learn about the current political situation along with the history of Iranian politics. I've read the basics from Wikipedia, but I'm looking for something with a little better journalism. Anyone have recommendations?
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I am friends with Iranian who loves to complain about politics, so I learn about them whether I want or not.
She likes BBC Farsi (which is obviously out of the question unless you really like Google Translate mush), so regular BBC?
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: nearly all of the gluten free foods I rely on (including udis and rudi's bread) are actually worse for you nutritionally speaking if the goal is to lose weight. gluten free as a weight loss strategy? i have no idea how that would work
Easy. You eat less calories overall because it costs too much to buy.
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: Is literally anyone else here following Australian politics? Abbot is what you would get if you took gwb, stripped out his earnest idealistic charm, and replaced it with a kind of suffocatingly sociopathic dunderheadedness.
No, but I know of Tony Abbot's evil.
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I'm cringing. I'm cringing my way through that entire video. I hurt. That entire video is supremely painful for me to watch. That's horrifying. That's viscerally horrifying. I'm practically shrieking.
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I was *sure* that it wouldn't be a discussion of whether it was intentional or not, the discussion would be whether it should be a fine or suspension. He clearly lifted up his right leg while his left leg was on Rodgers, placing all of his weight on Rodgers' ankle. An unintentional step would obviously be immediately pulling your leg off, not adding weight to it.
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It honestly does look like it *could* be an accident, but a) he's a professional who knows where the quarterback is behind him, and b) he is a hothead who has kicked people in the past. So yeah.
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No it doesn't. The first step might have been an accident. Then he knew where Rodgers is and stepped on him a second time. And lifted up his other leg so all of his weight was on him. And then walked away without apologizing or even reacting in a way that acknowledges he just put his 300 lbs on some guys ankle.There is no chance that is accidental.
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It's funny if you remember gamergate, especially when combined with your female attire thread, kind of brilliant.
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I wish I had. I have a friend who was crazy obsessed with it. As opposed to the noncrazy kind of obsessed
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quote:Originally posted by Stone_Wolf_: Must have missed gamergate...
We discussed it at some length in this thread. I posted an article that summarizes the issues and controversies at hand. It works as a pretty effective introduction to it.
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I just did a YouTube search on Anita Sarkeesian. Pretty much every video title that comes up is firmly anti-Anita. I briefly watched a couple. It's ugly.
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quote:Originally posted by Dogbreath: The only anti-fluoridation person I know is also anti-vax and tried very earnestly to convince me 9/11 was a conspiracy.
What are the odds?
As long as they don't bomb the Soviets in order to preserve their essence.
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I just don't understand the movement really, how entitled do you have to be to think wanting gamer culture and the games industry to be more inclusive is at all unironically a bad thing.
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Back before I met my wife I had had an idea...Virtual Porn Director...a video game that lets one control the set, wardrobe, positioning, the script, etc...with the sole purpose of separating porn from video games. I mean can't I just shot aliens without an ET tittie bar that when my character sits down it zooms in on the scantily clad dancer Mass Effect 1 & 2 (and presumably 3)? Get your porn out of my games!
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How would the existence of your game keep the content you're uncomfortable with from being included in other games?
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