Why Ann Romney loves her dancing horse...

[Atman]

Last edited Thu Jul 19, 2012, 02:38 PM - Edit history (2)

It's the only place she could find a bigger dick than her husband.

BOOM!

Okay, sorry. Maybe over the line...but it felt good.

[DURHAM D]

1. Inappropriate.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. I'd like to see videos of Ann riding Mitt around the house

wearing a black leather thong and beating him with a riding crop. You know he likes to please his horse lady.

[Zyzafyx]

53. Thanks for that mental image!

[patrice]

3. This is stupid. Priorities?

[patrice]

4. Bookmarking for use in the next fund-drive here.

[patrice]

5. SEXIST fucking BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Marinedem]

7. Agreed.

To all of the above.

[patrice]

9. I'm going to follow the little fund-raising bot around with this link to remind people what they're

buying.

[Atman]

10. What purpose would that serve?

Just curious.

[Bellerophon]

69. I flagged it

And the jury actually supported this thread....

[HERVEPA]

77. No kidding. What in the world is wrong with it.

It's calling Romney a jerk. Which he is. Just using "dick" instead of "jerK"

[MADem]

82. There are no fund drives any more. That paradigm, and Grovelbot, are dead.

You pay five bucks a month for a star. Or you look at ads and have slightly less functionality.

With transparency, we know what we are buying. One post does not make a website. Object and move on. Don't let the behavior of others ruin your day.

[Atman]

8. WHAAAAAA!

Why is it sexist?

Answer these questions truthfully, don't falter, just give the first response which comes to your mind...

Is Mitt Romney a big dick?

Do horses have big dicks?

That is all. What is sexist about it? You made it sexist yourself. I was only pointing out that Mitt Romney is a big dick.

.

[patrice]

11. Bullshit! I'm not your monkey. End of "conversation".

[Atman]

13. "I'm not your monkey?"

WTF?

[pipi_k]

58. OK so maybe I'll get

a different response to the same question.

What makes that post "sexist"?

I don't see it as being sexist. I see it as being really insulting to a human being, no matter what that person's gender is.

So maybe you can explain why you think it's sexist.

Thanks!

[Atman]

71. +100. But I'm biased.

[RedStateLiberal]

23. I have a simple solution to avoid alerts on this OP

Put quotes on the word "dick". When I first read this OP I took it the wrong way and alerted. When I saw the jury results I was amazed they voted to leave it alone. Reading it again I realized your intent to point out Rmoney is a "dick" - a jerk or asshole.. A simple addition of quotations to show you weren't literally talking about his penis would help avoid confusion and I don't think it would take away from your joke. Just a suggestion.

[Atman]

26. HEY! The jury didn't even tell me!

I thought you got a notice when you were alerted upon!

But, yes, if I still have time to edit, i will do just as you suggested.

[sad sally]

42. Got alerted on one of my posts a month or so ago - no notice from the jury's "leave it," but

another poster came back and called me names - I didn't "turn them in."

[flamingdem]

39. I thought it was funny but

on second thought it brings to mind an image of Ann Romney having sex with a horse. I think the complaint is that it contextualizes her in a demeaning manner and a sexualized manner based on her gender. Supposedly wives are not supposed to get dragged in, (but look at how Michelle has been attacked..). But we don't want to be quite that low. The horse however is a good target.

If you could rework it so the big dick laugh didn't intersect with gender it would fly okay here.

I encourage any jokes about the horse since that's now forbidden in the media and we should keep it going.

[Aerows]

21. I'm as big of a feminist

Lesbian woman as you can find. I am not offended in the slightest, and included my offering. I AM, however, offended by Ann Romney trying to act like a normal, everyday woman when she hasn't the slightest clue what women struggle with.

I could care less whether Ann Romney, Free Republic, World Nut Daily and the Cave think of my comments. I will not be ashamed of my own damn opinion just to make some people think they ought to be "nicer". This woman isn't nice at all, and I see no reason to be "nice" about her.

[Atman]

22. [phone]

[Comrade_McKenzie]

6. K&R. nt

[emilyg]

12. Unrec.

[kiranon]

14. Agree. n/t

[cali]

15. I don't give a flying fuck how good it made you feel. If you have even one working

brain cell, self-delete it.

And yes, of course I alerted.

Jeezus.

[Atman]

16. Why did you alert?

If I can get this in before the delete...

Did I say Ann was looking for something with a bigger dick than her husband had? Read post #8

Or did I say what I actually said? You read it one way, but I didn't write it that way. I, personally, think you're pretty messed up for thinking that I was talking about sex with a horse. I was merely talking about big dicks.

[cali]

17. Yes, I "get" it and don't be

disingenuous. You knew that it was a double entendre.

[Atman]

20. No, actually. I'm not being disingenous

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There was NO double entendre.

Mitt Romney is a big dick.

Horses have big dicks.

What is unclear about the meaning? YOU wanted to make something out of it which I didn't day. Read post #8. And be HONEST about your response, if it's not too late.

[The Magistrate]

18. Had To Recommend This, Sir: Damned Funny Line

[Aerows]

19. She wanted to ride something

That gave her pleasure.

[nolabear]

24. This undermines our cause. Please stop this.

I'd like to see the thread pulled.

[Atman]

25. Others seem to disagree with you.

What "cause?"

Several other DUers rec'd this. So you don't like it. Whose "cause" is it? I only made a joke, and some of you chose to take it one way, others read it the way i intended it. Please point out the "cause" which my stupid little joke has undermined. Are you against big dicks? Are you against Romney? I'm confused...what is the cause?
.

[nolabear]

29. Okay. How did we feel re Limbaugh's Chelsea Clinton joke?

If we make and laugh at similar jokes, and this one is similar--crude sexuality aimed at something other than a salient issue and at someone other than the candidate--then we leave ourselves open for people like Limbaugh to say it's fair game. The cause is promoting the re-election of President Obama and Democrats and pleading the case that we are worth listening to. And I think this harms it.

[Atman]

30. I don't see any relation between the two at all.

The fact that YOU do tells what me you are thinking.

Honestly, really, when I wrote the post I wasn't thinking anything sexual. No reference to sex with horses. Just to the fact that Mitt Romney is a big dick, and horses have big dicks. Of course, I can explain it to you a thousand time, but there are those among us who simply want it to mean what they want it to mean. As I said, it tells me more about what is going on your head than mine.

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[nolabear]

33. I'd like to see a show of hands of who thought there was a horse-fucking implication.

The old "Well if YOU see it that way there must be something wrong with you" defense is well worn and useful, and if you say it never ever occurred to you that the implication that "big dick" as a positive thing has sexual overtones, well, I find it hard to swallow.

Now really, not a single sexual overtone?

[Atman]

72. You find "big dick" hard to swallow?

I see no sexual overtones in that at all.

And I'm trying not to spew all over my keyboard.

.

[The Magistrate]

31. If You See No Difference, Sir, Between A Politically Active Spouse And A Minor Child, Well....

Mrs. Romney is a fully adult political player. She and her horse, which the people of this country subsidized to the tune of $77,000 dollars last year ( roughly the income of two entire average households ), are legitimate topics for disparaging comment, including humorously disparaging comment. The line in the O.P. is a fairly elegant way of saying 'Mitt Romney is a big dick', which is an accurate description of him, and ought to be pressed at every opportunity, because people really do not like guys who are big dicks, and people do not vote for people they do not like.

"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."

[nolabear]

32. That part I get. And it's not what I see, it's what I believe can be used.

Since there's little likelihood that this'll get out of the house anyway my objection might be meaningless in the real world. But it makes me like "us" less when the shots are so cheap, and I'm cool with feeling that way. I just don't like the post, and get icked out by the sense of standing around with a group of people taking cheap shots when there are so many legit ones to take.

I agree that the horse and Anne/Mitt's use of it are fair game. I just disagree about this use of it.

Btw the "Sir" tickles me, as does your sig line.

[The Magistrate]

35. Fair Enough, Sir

Be well!

[Aerows]

34. Precisely

I am highly sensitive to feminist topics, but this one with regard to Ann Romney, well, I'm just not feeling the sympathy.

This woman has shit tons of resources and money that are unavailable to most women, she has demonstrated to "you people" that she doesn't give a shit about anyone but her high end friends, and that leaves her with NO protection, in my opinion, because she needs none.

Her money has done enough damage as it stands.

[HopeHoops]

27. No, not over the line. That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the subject line.

[Bertha Venation]

28. The jury got this one wrong. This is inappropriate.

Not to mention disgusting.

[Aerows]

36. I would disagree

If it were a woman that was of modest means, or a woman that didn't attempt to shield her husband politically through their wealth.

She did, and I have zero sympathy for her. She is NOT everywoman with MS and breast cancer. She gets everything that your wives, mothers, daughters and sisters don't get, and her husband wants to make sure you and they never get it.

To me, as a woman, that means a line has to be drawn somewhere, and I draw it here. Pitying and championing Ann Romney as a "woman" is something I will never do. Let me know if you have an organization championing and pitying vipers. I won't sign on, but at least it will be honest about what she and her family are.

[Bertha Venation]

37. I neither pity nor champion Ann Romney.

The post is disgusting on its face. It doesn't matter if the subject is Ann Romney or Eva Braun or Mother Teresa.

[Aerows]

41. I disagree

She has made it a point to talk up about how a horse that she got a $77,000 tax break on got her "better".

I can think of ways that $77,000 can make a lot of people better besides just Ann Romney, and they can probably contribute more to society than she ever has.

She has an expensive stable of horses that are costing tax payers money, and she has no right to stand by while her husband rants at poor sick people when she is a rich sick person. It's hypocritical, and nothing you or anyone else can say will convince me otherwise.

You shouldn't be convinced otherwise, either, because it is ridiculous on its face to think she is "underprivileged".

[Bertha Venation]

45. Again,

I said nothing about Ann Romney's horse, health, sense of entitlement, or privilege. Nothing in my post could've led you to believe that I see her as underprivileged; I'm baffled as to where you got that.

I am not trying to convince you of anything. I do not support Mitt & Ann Romney.

Again, the joke was disgusting. Again, it doesn't matter who the subject is.

[Aerows]

46. Ann Romney's treatment

of her horses, for instance Super Hit, has deserved my scorn, and I really don't care who knows it. The woman is just like her husband - an animal abuser who either puts the dog on the roof or uses abusive training methods to break a horse then shoots it full of drugs to sell it when she messes it up - I have zero respect for that, man, woman or child.

THAT is disgusting, without taste, and causes lasting damage to a living creature. I could give a crap if Ann Romney is offended, and if my sisters knew what this evil woman did, I think most would agree. I'm a woman, but I'm no bleeding heart. I don't sit back and defend a woman that abuses a horse through a questionable training method, then shoots it full of drugs to sell it, and then pretends like it was "therapeutic" for her.

If it was "therapeutic" for her to abuse an animal, she has serious mental problems.

[Bertha Venation]

48. Have a nice day, Aerows.

[Aerows]

50. Thank you

And feel free to research to see if what I am saying is true, and to see why I'm a tad enraged. I don't expect you to follow me in "enraged", but I do appreciate that you replied to what I had to say. Take care, BV

[Bertha Venation]

51. I'm in the "enraged" camp.

Firmly. It's just that I haven't any energy to spend other than campaigning FOR someone rather than against the other. More power to you, if you can.

[firehorse]

38. Boo, bad taste, unrec. She loves her horse because its an icon of the 1%.

[Brickbat]

40. What the hell is wrong with you?

[Aerows]

43. Probably had enough about hearing

how poor sick Ann Romney got well after she raked in 77,000 on just ONE horse as a tax deduction. I know that makes me sick.

[Brickbat]

54. It is sick and definitely grounds for sharp ideological criticism.

Grounds for tee-heeing about totally NOT implying ANYTHING about bestiality, not so much.

[magical thyme]

44. Ann Romney does not love her horses

People who love their horses do not drug them up to hide their lameness in order to fraudulently sell them to their partner's clients.

And your "joke" is not only sexist, it is an insult to all the horse people on DU, as well as in the rest of the world.

[Aerows]

47. Ann Romney is an asshole

Her treatment of her horses gains her no cover from me. I could care less if she is badgered out of existence with memes about how much of an uncaring human being she is. That doesn't affect me a bit as a woman, since she seems to be a robot counterpart of Mitt.

Neither of them have a human bone between them. Their sons, with the exception of the one that is a surgeon, seem to be following in their footsteps of being parasites of humanity.

[Bluerthanblue]

49. yes, but this 'joke' is just plain stupid-

it isn't really funny or clever.

Do you know what a crupper is?

[Kaleva]

52. Edit: Responded to the wrong person.

Darn sun shining on my laptop!

[Atman]

59. It's not just sexist, it's horse-ist?

I think DU has jumped the shark...on a horse.

[HERVEPA]

78. and the people on Mars and all other galaxies.

What the heck is wrong with you people. It's a funny joke. Period. Or an unfunny joke, if you don't think it's funny.
Sure not sexist, doesn't imply she wants to have sex with a horse.

[magical thyme]

86. horsewomen are frequently subjected to sexual inferences regarding horses

and riding horses, not to mention Catherine the Great stories, by jerks, in the guise of "jokes."

To those of us who have heard such jokes for a lifetime there absolutely is a sexual reference in the OP and it has gotten very very old and not funny. It may or may not have been intended, but the inference most certainly is there.

That's what the heck is wrong with "us people." So what the heck is wrong with "you people" that you find such lame attempts at jokes, and insulting women who like to sit on horses, amusing? Amusing to you? Not to the butt of your stupid sexual innuendo.

[bluesbassman]

56. Sorry Atman, you can spin this any way you want, but the reality is it's misogynistic.

I'll grant that it's clever, but the double entendre is decidedly mysogynistic.

[Atman]

61. I don't have to "spin it" at all.

Some of you pervs thought I was talking about Ann doing her horse. Honestly, as I've said before, the thought never crossed my mind. The entire point was that Mitt is a big dick.

Put any label on me you want. I have a long record here on DU...search it if you think I'm such a mysogynist pig, back up your claim. But my joke was about Mitt being a big dick. The other joke is the DU Propiety Brigade.

[bluesbassman]

64. Then you're incredibly tone deaf.

That you do not see the misogyny in the joke doesn't make you a "misogynist pig" (a term nobody to my knowledge has referred you to) but does show a lack of respect for the women who view and participate in the discussion at DU.

Yes, I "get" what your joke says, but you know as well as I do that it has a double entendre meaning that understandably is offensive to women. The defense that it's a slam on Mitt is disingenuous at best.

[Atman]

74. Miss O'Geny?

She was my humanities teacher in high school.

Oops. There I go with attempted humor again.

i know, i know...we're supposed to be "proper" here. But if we can't even get our politics proper, why are we wasting time busting my balls for this shit?

[eShirl]

84. Because you're stinkin' up the joint.

[HERVEPA]

79. No, it's just anti-Romneys

[stevenleser]

57. I know you meant well, but this is a bad idea.

Please self delete.

[SunsetDreams]

60. +100,000

This is not really appropriate

[cthulu2016]

62. The jury clearly erred in allowing this OP to stand.

[Atman]

63. Says you.

That's why there is a jury.

[progressivebydesign]

65. Totally agree. This does not belong here.

I guess folks here at DU haven't learned anything from seeing this kind of vile shit appearing around the internet as proof of what horrible people we are. All it takes is one post and we're all painted with that brush (even those not on DU.) Unfortunately, because we don't have the media voice that the republicans do, it ever goes the other way. The vile shit they post never gets called out.

[Kaleva]

66. I agree

[Skip Intro]

67. Agreed. nt

[HERVEPA]

80. Clearly to you, don't speak for others.

[backscatter712]

68. Wow. Some people here are severely oversensitive.

It's a dick joke. You'll survive the experience.

And yes, Mitt is a huge dick!

[Atman]

73. Fuckin' A

That's all I thought when I posted it.

Now it's front pages news.

LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP, PEOPLE. It was a joke. And this why "the other people" make fun of us. Because we live with a corn cob up our ass and can't understand a bit of humor every now and then. Everything has to have a deep, dark meaning.

Oh, I'm sorry...we appear to be out of time for today...

[Atman]

76. I live in farm country.

I'm guessing most of these people have never seen a horse dick. Seriously, it's huge. Bigger than Mitt's hair!

[eShirl]

83. You seem to be saying you're quite familiar with horse dicks.

OK whatever.

("IT'S A JOKE.&quot

[Zanzoobar]

70. Stupid

"Why does Michelle love gardening?"

I suppose I could say something about cucumbers and eggplants, then complain that I was misunderstood. Boom, and all that.

This sort of OP is outright asswipery.

[Odin2005]

75. What the fuck is wrong with you?

[cherokeeprogressive]

81. So you're saying her dancing horse is a dick? Cuz if you aren't, your post is

terribly misogynist and low-class.

[B Calm]

85. This is a political board!

Not a porn site!