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NICE GIRLS, AND THE OTHER KIND, or, TODD AKIN'S WORLD

10/5/2012

 
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Nice Girls and the Other Kind, or, Todd Akin’s World.
                    Sometimes it's hard to be a woman,
                    Givin' all your love to just one man
           You'll have bad times, and he'll have good times,
                  Doin' things that you don't understand
             But if you love him, then you'll forgive him,
                  'Cause after all he's just a man

                                                                             (Tammy Wynette, Stand By Your Man)
    It’s old-tyme chivalry going back to King Arthur. Todd Akin opens doors for ladies, doffs his hat in elevators (I do too), and would be scandalized if one offered to pay the check (not me!). If he saw The Honeymooners, he understood Ralph Kramden, Brooklyn bus driver who hollered, “No wife of mine will ever work a day in her life!”
    In the 1951 movie, Bright Victory, Arthur Kennedy returns blinded from WW-II. His girl can’t handle it and they split. He learns he can become a lawyer if someone reads law books to him, finds a new girl and says, “Honey, we’re going to be a lawyer!”  The blithe chauvinism—she does the reading, he gets the degree—of days when it was unthinkable for a woman to be a lawyer, is the world of Todd Akin, who after a debate with Claire McKaskill called her “unladylike,” and “a wild cat.” Her response: “I was a prosecuting attorney and came out fighting. What did he expect?”
    What he expected began long before 1947 when he was born. Todd Akin lives in a world I learned about from Ardrah Buddin, my WW-II navigator who grew up in South Carolina, believing that there were nice girls and the other kind. He was much more interested in the other kind because nice girls didn’t like sex, even when married, so a man had to have “something on the side.” Budden grew up, he said, thinking that “nice girls don’t even shit, they take chemicals.”  But he expected to marry a nice girl. It’s likely Todd Akin thought those things.too because at age 55 he still thinks that a nice girl can’t be knocked up by a rapist because her body “shuts down.” If she gets pregnant, she must have “asked for it,” so isn’t a nice girl after all. (Talk about blaming the victim!)  

     Akin is scared of unladylike wild cats like Claire McKaskill, only comfortable with weak fluttery nice girls. A century ago, too blushingly delicate to spread their legs, they rode horses side-saddle. In Italy in the 1950s, nice girls rode motor scooters side-saddle, behind a man, knees pressed primly together.
    “Women and children first!” cried gallant gents on the sinking Titanic, and sure enough, 74% of the women survived, only 20% of the men. But I’d like to know what percentage of those saved women had been in First Class, how many came from below.
    Todd Akin loves Tammy Wynette.
                             Stand by your man, Give him two arms to cling to
                   And somethin' warm to come to, when nights are cold and lonely
                      Stand by your man, And show the world you love him
                    Keep givin' all the love you can, Stand by your man.

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tracy everitt link
10/7/2012 12:56:45 am

Thank you Stu. Our American Republican brethren are just left overs from the hypocrisy of the Victorian Age generations in England: That little country produced a crop of esteemed professionals and politicians who all buggered each other in private, elite boy's' schools, then denied it and made buggering punishable by imprisonment. Even after repealing that, they still are a buggering old boy network, like some of the the Catholic Church.
Our founding fathers' Protestantism and its hatred of sinful pleasures was the cause of our USA sexual repression and other hang-ups, just like Queen Victgoia was England's cause, bless her sanctimonious bosom.
Tracy.
Tracy


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    Being 90 years in this world,  with great kids,  great grandkids, great wives (two, one at a time) and great memories, I wonder why some people seem to have stopped loving the U.S.A.? I will wonder in print right here. If you wonder too, or can provide some answers, please comment.
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                   April, 2012.
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