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Feb 24Edited

Say their names.

Mary Harrington, the weirdo on Heritage C-Span embarrassment from April 25, 2023, has alas, zero credibilty, and even fewer credentials.

If you can trust her, believe her, take her word for it, she types,

. . . I’ve been a janitor, a communard, a marketing executive, an internet founder, and a psychotherapist, among other things. Having given up trying to avoid my fate, I’ve joined UnHerd,* where I write twice a week as a contributing editor. Elsewhere, my work has appeared in the London Times, the Mail on Sunday, the New Statesman, the New York Post, and The Spectator among many others . . .

So, Rupert Murdoch and tabloids are where she shares her embarrassing, shallow ideas. Figures. (Add to that Regnery. You can't make this stuff up.) Her marriage is all she has. Here’s Mary’s own first-hand confession of how helpless, sad, and inept she was and is:

. . . Reader, I did marry him. And once I did make that commitment to life in common, all the things that were missing from my life suddenly became possible, as if by magic. A permanent home; more stable employment; children; even, imperceptibly, something I thought I was psychologically incapable of: a sense of belonging to a place. I wish I’d been ready for it all sooner; these days I heartily recommend to twentysomething friends pursuing marriage as a deliberate life goal sooner rather than later.. . .

Mary is still terminally unemployed.

* Unherd was founded and funded by a pro-Brexit, Jordan Peterson worshiping Thatcher fanboy who made money playing in hedge funds. Any questions?

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A "comunard"?!

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I miss the Church Lady.

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My mother IS Church Lady.

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Get her after Trump, then!

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Maybe the right-wing repressors are secretly enjoying tons of recreational sex themselves. Maybe. But I think a lot of the impetus behind this movement (all of it with the incel/Groyper version) is that they are NOT in fact enjoying much sex at all. If any. And if they aren't getting any, they want to make it so the rest of us can't either, so they can feel better about their own failures in the sex department.

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"displaying actions that our faith believes" is one of the most tortured phrases, in several different and equally terrible ways, that I've heard in a while

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Especially coming from her. Of the "cheating on her husband, tripping a reporter in the streets, harassing a teenage gun violence survivor, loudly yelling during a State of the Union Address" actions.

She's just a fake Christain (borrowed phrase) just like her man PAB.

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So sick of right-wingers it hurts my head. In their world they'd burn a woman at the stake as an "enchantress who tempted men to stumble" merely for wearing a sundress on a hot summer day.

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'Michael Shermer, who is one of those people who thought the Right was seriously into free speech and didn’t realize that authoritarian Christian nationalism was the whole plan all along, quote-tweeted the article writing “I called it yesterday--IVF frozen embryos is just the start: a feminist movement against the pill, end recreational sex, have sex, make babies.”'

Michael Shermer is a public embarrassment and his only worthwhile purpose is as a living counter example to the whole libertarian movement.

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It's "freeze peach."

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"returning the danger to sex," Don't people pay a lot of money for that?

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I would kick iin for a good dominatrix session, if they would leave the rest of us alone.

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Then what's with all the threesomes and the hookers and stuff?

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I kinda wonder, when MTG entered those images of Hunter Biden's enormous dick into the Congressional Record, was that when she was being a modest Christian woman?

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She's a porn freak, like the rest of them.

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Quick! Somebody call Alabama CPS and get those poor children to a warm place!

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Check their browser histories. Just saying!

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So any man who wishes to have sex with a woman who cannot bear a child should not have sex? There goes the majority of older Americans voting Republican.

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I wish they would wake the fuck up!

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Clarence Thomas (childless) says sex is only for procreation. John Roberts (childless) agrees. What's going on with that lot of sad, frustrated, lonely wingnuts, actually?

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Maybe any older man who wishes to have sex with an underage woman (girl) is OK then. Just sayin'

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Matthew Gaetz has no other options. Why is that, actually?

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You listening, MG (R-FL),?

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So, if sex is only for procreation and not for fun, does that mean no more pills for defective wankers?

Said defective wankers generally belong to old guys, who shouldn’t be procreating in the first place and are only having sex for fun. Therefore, they shouldn’t be able to rely on chemical support.

What’s that you say? Only the wimmens can’t be having recreational sex? For men, little blue pills should handed out at the gas station and in other public places.

Makes sense.

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If only men can have recreational sex ... who are they going to be having it with? Other men? That seems like they are advocating for the ghey...

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Butt, we just learned that having sex with women is ghey.

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Yeah, I know that happened, but it just does not compute. And I don't care enough to delve into WHY he said it.

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Yes, that hurt my head trying to make sense of it.

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Forget bent carrots. Oysters should not be made into carrots by artificial means in the first place.

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A defective wiener is God's way of telling you you shouldn't be having sex for any reason. Boner pills are the Devil's work and against the will of the Lord. Celibacy also leaves more time for prayer, church and Christian works of charity. Can I get an Amen!

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AMEN! If you don't care for church or prayer, do more works of charity, take up woodworking or learn the piano. Sex is overrated anyway.

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Defective wieners are God's way of telling you you shouldn't have sex. Wouldn't want to go against the will of the Lord! Celibacy leaves you more time for prayer and church

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Look, she's British and she used the word "paradigm," what other credentials do you need?

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And she's a woman! Say no more...

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Oh. She’s a woman? My bad.

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I THINK she is...Regardless, she's pretty much full of crap. A British accent does not an expert make.

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It does to the uneducated Americans. Funny that too.

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There are so many things to say here but the most important is: Sexual repression. It ain't a river in Egypt.

Being an old, all sex is recreational for me. Even if I were to somehow get sexed up by a younger woman, I have a condition known as retrograde ejaculation. Because prostate meds.

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I just want to say that hoodie is super cute Robyn.

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It looks like the sort of thing anime cuties are always wearing.

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But, did she stop by a school to avail her self of the litter box?

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