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Add to NewsvineHow interesting that Jaime Sneider, who posts at the Weekly Standard blog, takes a cheap shot at Dawn Eden, while also justifying conservative hypocrisy:
He quotes Dawn Eden thus:
It’s easy for a man to keep this illusion of being a great, sensitive romantic if he knows he’s just going to sleep with you and then say good-bye. Anybody can be Mr. Love God for one night or one week or one month.
Then responds:
I have no doubt that a date with the author of The Thrill of the Chaste would be exhilarating--wait, actually, I do doubt it. Hence the conservative proverb, "Be right, live left."
Boy, that's classy.
Jaime Sneider is a good writer, and a young one; he graduated from Columbia in 2002. Surely he's experienced enough to be aware that liberals often accuse rightists of holding others to moral standards they do not apply to themselves. If you're going to be a hypocrite, at least have the sense to keep it to yourself.
Anyway, just you watch: in about 10 years, Mr. Left-Living Love God will be clapped out (so to speak), and desperate to marry a woman with the morals of Dawn Eden. Oldest story in the world.
UPDATE: On re-reading this, I am chagrined that I made an unkind remark about Jaime Sneider with respect to a medical condition he once had, and wrote about. I took the remark down, and apologize to him here.
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Rod Dreher, exhibiting his usual commitments to Christian charity and love, implies Sneider will get the clap. Classy, indeed.
But "classiness" - sort of like "truthiness" - is the name of this particular game. Indeed, "classiness" extends back to Miss Eden's original post, wherein she implies that all liberals want is a quick roll in the hay. Whatevs, man.
It's okay in the Crunch Con Book of Good Manners to impugn the motives of liberals everwhere - they're not human, they don't feel pain - but make an off-hand remark about one of your own, and it's Katie bar the door.
Tribal politics at its grandest.
I don't know much about Eden, other than if she's among the top five eligible conservative "bloggettes," it's gotta be hard out there for a conservative.
But I do know this: Rod Dreher should repair to his den this evening with Good Book in hand to reflect upon whether this was the most Christian of responses available to him today.
Posted by: Joe Strummer | April 4, 2008 3:47 PM
Joe,
Mr. Sneider referenced the following statement from Ms. Eden:
"It’s easy for a man to keep this illusion of being a great, sensitive romantic if he knows he’s just going to sleep with you and then say good-bye. Anybody can be Mr. Love God for one night or one week or one month."
How exactly does this statement imply "that all liberals want is a quick roll in the hay"? And how exactly does it then grant Sneider license to belch:
"I have no doubt that a date with the author of The Thrill of the Chaste would be exhilarating--wait, actually, I do doubt it."?
Please do explain you righteous arbiter of class and manners.
Posted by: Mike Petrik | April 4, 2008 7:21 PM
Charles Cosimano: Uh, actually the oldest wives' tale in the world. No man wants to be saddled with a woman with those morals.
And perhaps no woman wants to get saddled with a man with those (former) morals, lest he turn into a prude.
Posted by: stefanie | April 4, 2008 7:37 PM
Please do explain you righteous arbiter of class and manners.
Yeah, I just didn't think Christianity smiled kindly on making snide remarks about others' medical conditions.
But as someone who loves to have sex outside of marriage - although, not nearly as much as Ms. Eden did until she found Jesus - and a godless atheist, what do I know?
Carry on Rod.
Posted by: Joe Strummer | April 5, 2008 11:33 AM
Joe, that may be the lamest explanation I have ever read. Did Ms. Eden make a snide remark about someone's medical condition? Did Sneider somehow bizarrely interpret her statement as doing so? If you have a beef with Rod, have at it. But Sneider was out of line, and your explanation is worse than pathetic.
Posted by: | April 5, 2008 3:07 PM
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