NRO's John Derbyshire Speaks Out Against Women's Suffrage

John Derbyshire, who provides the National Review with its chief source of Old Country lackwitticism, has a new wingnut-welfare tome out called We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, in which he mounts the case against women's suffrage, a dumb idea to which he was beaten by a woman, for what it's worth. Via ThinkProgress comes the news that Alan Colmes attempted to divine the depths of this nonsense, on the radio. Derbyshire, who has, in the past, nevertheless entertained the prospect of voting for Hillary Clinton, stated that his basic argument goes like this: "[Women] want someone to nurture, they want someone to help raise their kids, and if men aren't inclined to do it -- and in the present days, they're not much -- then they'd like the state to do it for them."

Derbyshire went on to add:

"Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I'll say this - if it were to be, I wouldn't lose a minute's sleep."

I suppose the only people losing sleep would be the women, who'd still be without a responsible male figure to help raise all the children spawned from their baby batter.

Interestingly, in the real world, the "state" is all about forcing men into the lives of women to provide "nurturing," whether they want it or not.

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Comments

[Ivriniel]

01:44 PM on 10/08/2009

Ironically, Amazon has his book bundled with Sarah Palin's.

[h0tr0d]

10:21 AM on 10/07/2009

Democrats face steep uphill climb for male voters. Please don't forget that white voters, both male and female consistently vote GOP. What that really means is non-white females are the big bloc for Dems. As long as the Democratic party is nothing more than a conglomeration of special interests groups, it will not and cannot maintain a majority. Even after 8 of the worst years on record for the GOP....they are making progress in the polls....In fact, as long as democrats embrace the feminist movement, they cannot attract moderates.

[anothervoice2]

06:33 PM on 10/08/2009

Spoken like a true GOP older male.
Thankfully the GOP represents a shrinking demographic - the country is getting more diverse and younger.

[h0tr0d]

12:35 PM on 10/15/2009

Yeah....except I've been voting Democrat for 29 years. Elections are about effectiveness, and if the Dems arent affective the vote will swing the other way....just like always.

[Artemis34]

08:47 PM on 10/01/2009

Little wonder:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/118207/Republicans-Face-Steep-Uphill-Climb-Among-Women.aspx

"Republicans Face Steep Uphill Climb Among Women
Men increasingly identifying as independents, drifting away from GOP

PRINCETON, NJ -- Among women, Democrats maintain a solid double-digit advantage in party identification over Republicans, 41% to 27%. In contrast, men are equally divided in their party loyalty between Republicans (28%) and Democrats (30%), and are currently most likely to say they are politically independent (40%)."

Good riddance to the GOP!

[Artemis34]

08:32 PM on 10/01/2009

Does anyone know if this wack-job is a husband or father? Here's hoping he is not.

[Ivriniel]

01:50 PM on 10/08/2009

He's both.

[Artemis34]

08:08 PM on 10/01/2009

"lackwitticism"

good one, Jason

[chaya]

01:42 PM on 10/01/2009

I have no children. I therefore want no men to take care of them. Consequently the government does not take care of my non-children, either. But apparently, according to this guy, I still shouldn't get to vote. I disagree. I need my ability to vote to ensure that morons like him don't get into public office. There are too many of them already.

[h0tr0d]

01:41 PM on 10/01/2009

What is relevant is that we continue to get legislation which encourages women to divorce their husbands....or not bother to engage fathers. If we want encourage families to remain together, we ought to incent them to stay together....right now we are incenting single motherhood and divorce.

[kathy001]

04:55 PM on 10/01/2009

Legislation that encourages women to divorce their husbands? That encourages women to struggle to fulfill the roles of both mother and father, to support their children with only one income, to hold down a job and take care of the children and the house all alone, making it impossible to have any kind of life outside of working and parenting?

What kind of legislation an incentives would that be?

[Artemis34]

08:20 PM on 10/01/2009

It is not "women to divorce" but should be "couples to separate or divorce"

Say if you stay together you can't afford food but supposedly make to much for food stamps, but if you separate, the working parent can buy food and the non-working parent and children can get food stamps.

You look at some countries where they have social support for families, the stress of being a parent of either gender is diminished. Like the Germans have "kindergeld" which takes tax money from everyone of all ages and gives it to parent with children at home. So you can spread the cost of having kids over your lifetime and over your community. Works and no one has to get separated or divorced to get help.

If we had this "kindergeld" program in the US I bet abortion would suddenly become a non-issue for the FRIGHT WING! :-)

[h0tr0d]

09:28 AM on 10/02/2009

Divorce law, custody law and child support guidelines are all structured to benefit women.

[Monique Pauley]

01:26 PM on 10/01/2009

i won't even dignify those statements with a comment.

[Meah]

01:23 PM on 10/01/2009

"Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I'll say this - if it were to be, I wouldn't lose a minute's sleep."

Interesting that he would say that he does not realistically "nurse" something.... Sounds like he has hatred for his own feminine side. That is certainly something that men do not characteristically say. He hates himself and he hates women. Are there any normal people left in the Republican party?

[Martel]

02:12 PM on 10/01/2009

I believe there were 17 at last count.

[ljkcan]

01:13 PM on 10/01/2009

I wonder if he bought his wife a burka for mother's day.

[jnutlfam2]

02:08 PM on 10/01/2009

I would wonder what he bought his MOTHER for mother's day.

[b1rd67]

12:40 PM on 10/01/2009

"they want someone to help raise their kids, and if men aren't inclined to do it -- and in the present days, they're not much"

Project much a$$hole? It makes me wonder what kind of a father you are!

[malindeman]

12:18 PM on 10/01/2009

What a psychopath! There is nothing I would rather do than take care of my children. I enjoy my profession, but nuturing means more to me. If you are a man, as I am, but do not get the whole nurturing thing, you have some kind of brain damage. You're missing out on big part of human life and are seriously impaired.

One of the key strengths of Western civilization is that we treat women and men much more equally than backwards societies.

[Artemis34]

08:29 PM on 10/01/2009

"brain damage"

Quite right!

[zest]

12:11 PM on 10/01/2009

Well then, why does the republican party accept women as members and canidates? They should start by refusing women into their party.

[Ponderus]

12:31 PM on 10/01/2009

Liz Cheney is a WOMAN????

[b1rd67]

12:52 PM on 10/01/2009

Woman assumes that it's human... I'm not really certain about that... but I do think it's female.

[Artemis34]

08:28 PM on 10/01/2009

They accept women who have internalized their misogyny, demonstrate their self-loathing.

One indication that they loath themselves is that they want to be Republicans.

You know that w!cked w!itch Phyll!s Sch/aff/y is still al!ve and spreading her contempt for women? She was just in St. Louis stirring the pot. Revolting.

[LiberalDem]

12:11 PM on 10/01/2009

I suppose Mr. Derbyshire wasn't getting enough attention so he decided to say something provocative.

[MED1025]

11:50 AM on 10/01/2009

Move to Saudi Arabia. You'll love it there.

[Artemis34]

07:45 PM on 10/01/2009

Probably is also a drunk (obviously has been doing something to destroy brain cells), so Saudi Arabia may be a problem.