"You have to be [conservative]!" Coulter said there, according to the New York Times, explaining why it makes sense for gay men to be Republican. She cited the money they earn and how they're treated in the Middle East. "You know what the Muslims do to gays."John Phillips, a gay conservative radio host in attendance at the dinner at El Coyote, says even his liberal gay friends adore Coulter. A few years ago, Coulter came to his birthday party at his apartment, and his liberal gay friends rushed to her like hyenas running to a dead gazelle.I'm not a fag hag. I'm very picky about my fags.
Other conservative Cornell students flocked to Rabkin and identified with Coulter's pain.With Coulter, they founded a conservative college newspaper called theCornell Review. According to Coulter, early issues featured layout errors because the students had no journalism experience. They were simply passionate, rebellious young Republicans. "We were very enthusiastic," Coulter explained to C-Span 2 in a 2011 interview.Over a decade before her first New York Times bestseller, Coulter's college writing featured her stylistic trademarks: zingers about liberals, hyperbolic comparisons of people to Hitler, and quotes from leading academics and journalists juxtaposed next to politically incorrect jokes. But her college articles differ from her famous works in one way: She attacks men and accuses conservatives of sexism. Without identifying as a feminist, Coulter writes an attack on conservative men's treatment of women in the second issue of the Cornell Review. The piece opens:[MSNBC] does not give two shits about black people.
The piece differs from Coulter's famous writing, but everyone changes from college to adulthood. Some may say the writing reveals the big secret that Coulter is a "performance artist," but she was critiquing porn, not standing up for abortion rights. As a 2005 Time magazine cover story pointed out, Coulter has continued to criticize the media's depiction of women's writing, highlighting Coulter's commentary of Halle Berry's cleavage at the Oscars: "Berry's unseemly enthusiasm for displaying 'these babies,' as she genteelly refers to her breasts, reduces the number of roles for any women who lack Berry's beauty-queen features." When I ask Coulter how she feels when people say she's pretending to be a conservative, she compares herself to the dentist who shot Cecil the lion. "It's so monumentally idiotic [to say anyone pretends to be a conservative], I don't think it deserves refutation," Coulter writes me in an email. "It's like saying, 'You're just PRETENDING to be the guy who shot Cecil the lion. We know it's all an act.'"Conservatives have a difficult time with women. For that matter, all men do. Perhaps more is expected of conservatives. Then again, perhaps conservatives have a unique tropism toward moral befuddlement in their attitudes regarding women. Having rejected a lion's share of the multifarious issues which are seemingly inseparably fused with 'feminism,' conservatives apparently do not believe that any genuine affront to women is, in fact, possible, because such affronts are rarely if ever given a hearing in conservative publications. Once the term 'sexism' is extricated from the puerile outrages over men opening doors for women, the titles Miss and Mrs., and the societal expectation that women wear bras, the term finds its legitimate target: an implicit belief that women are either mothers or walking vaginas.
Starting in July 1996, she was working three days a week at MSNBC as a contributor. MSNBC couldn't pay Coulter because of a senate rule barring senate staffers from receiving payment from media outlets, but the network put her up in "fleabag motels" in New York. She spent the weekends locked in nasty rooms writing and pitching columns around town.Coulter faced problems at MSNBC. The network wanted a conservative commentator, but frequently battled Coulter over her statements because they found them "over the top." After Coulter told a Vietnam vet, "No wonder you guys lost," the network fired her--only to bring her back.In January 1997, she quit the Senate Judiciary Committee and joined the Center for Individual Rights, a non-profit public interest law firm that is nonpartisan but widely considered conservative or libertarian. (While placing an importance on free speech, the Center's primary focus has been to challenge what it deems unlawful preference based on race, i.e., "affirmative action" programs, through litigation. She split her time between working as a lawyer, appearing on MSNBC, and writing a weekly column for the conservative magazine Human Events. She started secretly working on Paula Jones's legal team in her case against Bill Clinton for sexual harassment. Then came the cum-stained dress that changed Coulter's life.Sexual harassment law is a tool to be used against ideological enemies of the feminist movement.
So the dividing line between chivalry and a legal cause of action is the use of force-until Clinton actually rapes a woman. If you stop at some point after grabbing your female subordinate's breast and placing her hand on your crotch, it is not sexual harassment… Most fabulous was Steinem's admission that laws against sexual harassment were never intended to stop sexual harassers. Rather, sexual harassment law is a tool to be used against ideological enemies of the feminist movement.