Friday, February 15, 2008  The Patriarchal Ode To Sexual Love
This is a little too late for Valentine's Day, but Glenn Beck
just gave a lovely shorthand version of the way one type* of
conservative guys seem to view love (the other type consists of
fundies who think that God made women as their domestic servants
and their sex slaves):  BECK: I mean, here are some other
reasons. "You're ugly." Hello! I'm not a sex expert but I'm --
you know, I'm thinking, you know, you're ugly and, you know,
that's a tough one to overcome especially if you're a woman. If
you're a guy, that's not hard to overcome. I'm sorry. That's
just the way the world is. Have you -- how many ugly guys have
hot wives? Take me, for example. I don't know why she married --
I think it was low self-esteem. I do. No, really I think it was
low self-esteem. I got in -- you know, you buy when the market
is low. You know what I mean? While everybody else is selling,
you buy. And I think I got in there right at the right time. Low
self-esteem, low, w