Be lady-like and ask a man to stop the killer

Charlotte Allen, the low-rent Phyllis Schlafly at the NRO (the most intellectually dishonest rest-stop on the Information Super Highway), says that the lack of men at the Sandy Hook Elementary School was really the problem. Damn feminists, it’s their fault:

“There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this school of 450 students, a sizeable [sic] number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K–6 school) [K–4 — TG], all the personnel — the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the “reading specialist” — were female. There didn’t even seem to be a male janitor [not true –TG] to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza’s knees.”

Aside from throwing a bucket at the knees of a gunman armed with high-powered guns with enormous bullet clips, what else have ya got for us, Charlotte?


Dawn Hochsprung seemed to have performed bravely? Most men I know would not have had the presence of mind, let alone the (lady) balls of Hochsprung. Rushing the kids into locations like closets and bathrooms seems to have helped all but 20 of the kids, which in itself is as close to a miracle as we seem to get most days.


Protecting the weak. Jeebus, are you really saying that ladies should be ladies and let a man do the protecting? Also/too: aside from there not being any husky 12-year old boys (K–4, remember), don’t boys count as children to be protected, too? Isn’t this some sort of Megan McCardle twattle?

But then, our pal Charlotte moves onto her next topic in her thesis: the coddling of men. I guess it is not enough to want menfolk to protect the wimmins, but you need to keep those boys rugged or something. Anyway, take it away Charlotte:


But they aren’t, Charlotte, but they aren’t. I’m not sure what Charlotte means that they were troubled for genetic reasons; is that a dog whistle for something else? I can interpret that as schizophrenia, being gay, being mixed race? What does it mean, Charlotte, what does it mean?


Oh, so what she’s saying is, tough love, and now you are society’s problem? “You genetically troubled kid, out of the house with you! I’m done! And keep away from my Uzi, too.”


OK, so in short, from Charlotte’s confused mind: Women are weak (except for unarmed Dawn Hochsprung, who sprang like a coiled tiger on the armed gunman), men are coddled, but women need them anyway to take down killers. Everyone know your gender-role behavior now? Good.

It doesn’t surprise me that some wingnut wrote this, what does surprise me is that anyone would publish it, but then again, it is on the NRO (the most intellectually dishonest rest-stop on the Information Super Highway).

0 thoughts on “Be lady-like and ask a man to stop the killer

  1. Allen turned up in the comments when Charles Pierce was mean to her. Seems she had a pretty horrifying attempted rape experience which you might think would help her a bit more empathic or something. But, wingnuts, gotta hate ,strike>everythingsomething


    • Kiwi –

      That’s great that she showed up in his comments. But while I am not pro-rape by any means, I’m not sure how her horrific rape has any bearing on her wishing to have pre-pubescent boys charge against a gunman with (semi)automatic weapons and a large clip? It’s a non-sequiter.

      Charlotte seems to have a problem with linear thinking; maybe it is one of those genetic problems she mentioned.




  2. “…a feminized setting is a setting in which helpless passivity is the norm …”

    Obviously Phyllis never spent time in my granny’s kitchen, I still bear spoon-shaped dents in my noggin from her vigorous enforcement of table manners.


  3. Not that I want to defend Allen, but in that Pierce thread, she was responding to a commenter who said Allen had probably never had a gun pointed at here or suffered a rape. In the context, it actually made sense, if having no bearing on the argument she made.


  4. Now that we have all vilified or help rationalize this bat shit woman’s world view of Sandy Hook and men in general, I have a couple of questions:

    Since this is the subject of an ongoing investigation and to my knowledge law enforcement hasn’t released the results of the timeline, or the way in which this deranged asshat went about killing his fellow citizen, HOW THE HELL DOES SHE KNOW ALL THIS SHIT? IT IS ALL NEWS TO ME!

    Second, what fine University did she get her degree in behavioral sociology since she make some pretty wild assumptions here as well as statements of fact about a “female culture,” Where’s the research Charlotte?

    Last, oh DO train our “huskier” 12 year old. That would be special. I was 12. I was husky, and if I had seen this dude I would have first soiled myself and then run as far and as fast as possible. PERHAPS WE NEED TO ARM THESES PREPUBESCENT CHILDREN,HUH CHARLOTTE? WHAT SAY? GOOD IDEA? A SEMI AUTOMATIC SLUNG OVER THEIR ARM AS THEY STROLL TO CLASS.





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