Daddy Should Worry More About How His Daughter Will Treat Guys On Campus, Who Have Lost Their Due Process Rights
There's a story in the New York Post about David Letterman trotting out one of the world's most tired "jokes," "Treat a lady like a wh-e, and a wh-e like a lady."
It apparently took three reporters to pen this blockbuster investigative piece in the Post. Emily Smith, Jennifer Bain and Bruce Golding write:
The joke -- a version of a saying attributed to 1930s screenwriter Wilson Mizner -- was met with stunned silence, the source said.
Yawnies.
They go on to quote somebody's daddy:
Jerry Stockton, a retiree from Virginia, called the crack "disrespectful to women, and women should never be disrespected.""My daughter is going to college in September and I worry how guys will treat her," he added.
Jerry hasn't been paying attention to the news and how, under Title IX, due process has been removed from men on campus, and campus kangaroo courts (a professor or two and some girl who's late to poli-sci) are judging their guilt.
Oh, and about that: Men now have the standard of guilty until they prove themselves innocent, and the likely ruin of their college careers if they aren't convincing in that in what can amount to a he said/she said situation.
Worse yet, if a man and woman were both drinking and had sex, the man is guilty and the woman is the victim.
And in California, if under these kangaroo court terms, a guy is decided to be "guilty," he would be suspended from school for two years if a proposed bill passes.
How's that for equality?!
women should never be disrespected."
And men should always be disrespected.
dee nile at April 22, 2015 8:38 AM
"My daughter is going to college in September and I worry how guys will treat her," he added.
Deer Jerry,
She'll be treated the way she lets them treat her. Maybe better, but I'll go out on a limb and say that anyone who treats her really well will be friend-zoned inside of 5 minutes, but the douche who treats her badly and won't return her phone calls? golden.
Not my place to call her out for that. Her life, and all, and one never really graduates from the School of Hard Knocks. But if she should whine to me about it for some reason, well, I'll point it out that people treat you the way you let them at the beginning.
If someone treats you poorly starting out, demand they up their game. If they refuse, walk away. Another thing young people don't grasp immediately: change is hard and has to start from inside the person you want to change. If they don't wanna, they ain't gonna no matter how much you wish they would.
I R A Darth Aggie at April 22, 2015 8:45 AM
""My daughter is going to college in September and I worry how guys will treat her," he added."
Fathers of Daughters - toxic to the bone.
A father's job is to teach his little girl how she is NOT a princess.
Jim at April 22, 2015 10:24 AM
"A father's job is to teach his little girl how she is NOT a princess."
I taught my daughters that they were each a princess to me. I also taught them how they were to be treated by others, including men. Proudly, they are kinda like Amy.
Dave B at April 22, 2015 11:48 AM
As far as the daughter herself, the main thing to worry about is whether she will be prepared to cope with the real world after four years of college indoctrination and coddling.
Cousin Dave at April 22, 2015 1:45 PM
Maybe dad should be aware of the drive for completely genderless bathrooms on campus.
End the oppression felt by people who already use the genderless bathrooms but are aware that some people don't use them! End it now!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at April 22, 2015 2:18 PM
David Letterman, the poster child for sexual harassment and it being ignored because he's a reliable TV liberal, laid an egg, and it took three reporters to find someone to say the politically du jour correct criticism. What was the matter? Wasn't Tina Fey available to make up something that Sarah Palin didn't say? Now that Dave is set to retire I guess it's OK to point out that he stopped being original, or funny, a long time ago, but never lost his talent for acting like a jerk.
Wfjag at April 22, 2015 2:29 PM
What Wfjag said.
I can't wait for the tell-all books to start coming out about Letterman in the years ahead. My hunch is that it's going to turn out he is/was an absolute beast to work for.
qdpsteve at April 22, 2015 2:35 PM
At the University Gulag, it doesn't even require kangaroo court proceedings or a formal accusation to destroy a life.
For anyone who hasn't read it, here's the brief, painful story of Patrick Witt:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/11/03/sexual-harassment-policy-that-nearly-ruined-life/hY3XrZrOdXjvX2SSvuciPN/story.html
Lastango at April 22, 2015 10:16 PM
If someone treats you poorly starting out, demand they up their game. If they refuse, walk away. Another thing young people don't grasp immediately: change is hard and has to start from inside the person you want to change. If they don't wanna, they ain't gonna no matter how much you wish they would.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at April 22, 2015 8:45 AM
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Which is why, unfortunately, girls need to be taught that "Pride and Prejudice" is not just fiction - it's a fairy tale.
That is, of course Elizabeth was right to take offense at Darcy's outrageous contempt for her family and to refuse his proposal. However, the ultimate message is that a lady can reform any and EVERY jerk by doing so. Any educated 28-year-old man who doesn't know beforehand that you do not insult a woman's family when proposing to her is NOT someone who is going to change or will want to. So, in real life, Darcy would have eventually shrugged and moved on to someone with less self respect. As a notorious radio host once said: "They never run out of women like that!"
lenona at April 23, 2015 10:32 AM
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