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Misogynist Neck-Beard Ross Douthat Shares His Sexy Stories

And ladies, he's a writer!Everybody was so excited when what’s his name, Atlantic child wonder Ross Douthat, got Bill Kristol’s spot in the New York Times. We’re still kind of angry about the NYT taking away one of our easiest weekly comedy bits, so no hurrahs from your Wonkette. Also, this Ross Douthat does seem to be that most common of things, a conservative asshole! Let’s take a look at his book, Privilege, and a very unsexy scene on page 184.

Courtesy of Brad DeLong, here’s a very bad paragraph from the new leading light of Conservative Writing:

One successful foray ended on the guest bed of a high school friend’s parents, with a girl who resembled a chunkier Reese Witherspoon drunkenly masticating my neck and cheeks. It had taken some time to reach this point–”Do most Harvard guys take so long to get what they want?” she had asked, pushing her tongue into my mouth. I wasn’t sure what to say, but then I wasn’t sure this was what I wanted. My throat was dry from too much vodka, and her breasts, spilling out of pink pajamas, threatened my ability to. I was supposed to be excited, but I was bored and somewhat disgusted with myself, with her, with the whole business… and then whatever residual enthusiasm I felt for the venture dissipated, with shocking speed, as she nibbled at my ear and whispered–”You know, I’m on the pill…”

Let’s see, misogynist passive-aggressive drunken jerk blaming his impotence on a woman having access to birth control? WE HAVE A WINNER.

Kristol, maybe we won’t miss you so much after all.

Fear of Reese Witherspoon Look-Alikes on the Pill [Brad DeLong]


2:44 PM on Wed March 18 2009
By Ken Layne
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  1. comradepaulson says at 2:48 pm, March 18th, 2009

    So he’s gay. So what? We need a little gay at the NYT op-ed page.

  2. DustBowlBlues says at 2:49 pm, March 18th, 2009

    I coudn’t read that. It’s too creepy. Is this a novel? Or just novel?

  3. CrunchyKnee says at 2:49 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Oh how I love “conservatives” and their wacky ways…never change republicans!

  4. shanemacgowan says at 2:51 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Had the subject of the story been “a chunkier Ryan Phillippe . . .” his reaction may have been different.

  5. ManchuCandidate says at 2:52 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Is page 185 when he writes about “denying her, his seed” and starts ranting about purity of our essences?

  6. Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! says at 2:52 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Well, Sara, …..”Do most Harvard guys take so long to get what they want?”

    We gotz to know!

  7. Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! says at 2:55 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Come to think of it, flip ahead to the scene where the roof of her mouth is impaled by a spoon.

  8. Pilate says at 2:56 pm, March 18th, 2009

    “whatever residual enthusiasm I felt for the venture dissipated, with shocking speed, as she nibbled at my ear and whispered–”You know, I’m on the pill…””

    “You mean, no buttsects?”

  9. americanscandoanything says at 2:56 pm, March 18th, 2009

    dude needs to contact teh gays and get some grooming assistance, stat

  10. SayItWithWookies says at 2:56 pm, March 18th, 2009

    He couldn’t get it up because he couldn’t stop thinking about his pwetty mouf going to waste. Now can we get that excerpt read by Bill O’Reilly?

  11. cranky says at 2:56 pm, March 18th, 2009

    it can’t be said, do not fuck republicans, just fuck them over.

  12. S.Luggo says at 2:56 pm, March 18th, 2009

    There is a scene just like that in “The Pillar and the City.” Coincidence?

  13. cranky says at 2:56 pm, March 18th, 2009

    shit balls! “it can’t be said ENOUGH”

  14. MarieDeGournay says at 2:57 pm, March 18th, 2009

    “My throat was dry from too much vodka, and her breasts, spilling out of pink pajamas, threatened my ability to.”

    To do what! Egads, my students write better than this. Finish a fucking sentence please!

  15. President Beeblebrox says at 2:58 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Eh, I’ll take this any day over Scooter Libby’s yiffy furry sex writing in his adventure in novel-writing, “The Apprentice.”

    “At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls, so the girls would be frigid… They fed her through the bars, and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest. Groups of men paid to watch.”

    or

    “Maybe you should report the strangers.”

    “Some thought we should. There was a girl raped just before the storm. But we discovered it was a fox-spirit that raped her. Someone even saw the fox-spirit. It had taken the form of a man. She’s not right yet, but that is common with such things.”

    or

    “He asked if they should fuck the deer.”

  16. Paterlanger says at 2:58 pm, March 18th, 2009

    comradepaulson: Exactly, right? I mean, on the next page he definitely comes out right? No? Well what’s the book about then?

  17. comradepaulson says at 3:00 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Really, this guy will be more fun than Kristol. Kristol just wanted war, war, war, WAR. This guy thinks spilling titties and the Pill are scary and they make his privates sad. You can’t get that kind of awesome from Tom Friedman. Not even from David Brooks.

  18. davesnothere says at 3:00 pm, March 18th, 2009

    “My throat was dry from too much vodka, and her breasts, spilling out of pink pajamas, threatened my ability to.”

    Uh, do “most Harvard guys” write sentences like this? WTF does it mean?

  19. norbizness says at 3:00 pm, March 18th, 2009

    I love recycling, so here’s a Family Guy quote I used elsewhere for Rossie:

    Adult Stewie: Well… that was new.

    Fran: What? The 8 seconds of sex or the 40 minutes of crying?

    Adult Stewie: Both, I guess.

  20. jagorev says at 3:00 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Sounds like your average Harvard guy (PLEASE DON’T BAN ME SARA)

  21. Gorillionaire says at 3:01 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Chunky Reese Witherspoon? I would hit that like a perpetual motion machine. What’s this fag’s problem?

  22. He’s obviously a habitual bed-wetter well into adulthood. His mother called it “The Midnight Baptism”.

  23. Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! says at 3:02 pm, March 18th, 2009

    S.Luggo: Dude, they don’t know the Bonus Army. What makes you think they’ll get the Vidal Sassoon ref?

  24. GIJoeIce says at 3:02 pm, March 18th, 2009

    What a turbo.

  25. Atheist Nun says at 3:03 pm, March 18th, 2009

    “…a girl who resembled a chunkier Reese Witherspoon…”

    …better than resembling a lumpy, retarded Kevin Smith, loozer!

    (*cough*(DoucheHat!*cough*)

  26. WadISay says at 3:03 pm, March 18th, 2009

    If nobody jammed a spoon into anybody’s throat, it’s Jane Austin as far as I’m concerned.

  27. swizzard says at 3:03 pm, March 18th, 2009

    I’ve been wondering:
    Do-that
    or
    Doubt-hat?

  28. ForTheTurnstiles says at 3:04 pm, March 18th, 2009
  29. shortsshortsshorts says at 3:05 pm, March 18th, 2009

    SHE IS ON THE PILL? JESUS IS NOT PLEASED.

  30. jagorev says at 3:08 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Okay, but seriously, the line “You know, I’m on the pill” would be kind of a boner killer for me too. Not because I hate birth control or women’s right to choose, but because that’s such a painfully unsexy thing to say. You’d figure that maybe those details would have been discussed and set aside already before you begin snogging.

    I mean, how would women respond if a guy told her, in the middle of necking: “You know, I had a vasectomy” or “You know, I have ribbed condoms on my bedside table”?

  31. Lascauxcaveman says at 3:08 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Closeted? Eh, it’s a matter of degree, I guess.

    I remember what I was like in college, and whether drunk, dehydrated or barfing, back then I would have squirted three or four times by the time the chick in that scene got me free of my knickers.

    Sorry, TMI, I know.

  32. SayItWithWookies says at 3:09 pm, March 18th, 2009

    swizzard: Chunky Reese Witherspoon on the pill? Ross wouldn’t Douthat.
    Hope that helps.

  33. Serolf Divad says at 3:09 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Don’t people write books about idiots named Lenny who unintentionally suffocate mice and get shot in the back of the head the end anymore?

    It’s all SEX, SEX, SEX with these conservatives.

  34. Senile Agitation says at 3:11 pm, March 18th, 2009

    That happened to me once, except I didn’t go to Harvard and Mom looks more like a chubby Goldie Hawn.

  35. cranky says at 3:12 pm, March 18th, 2009

    jagorev: people say stupid things during sex, especially when they are 20. if eloquence is required in a drunken, one night stand, be prepared to never get laid and then slowly fill up with resentment and become a republican douche with a column at the new york times.

  36. AngryBlakGuy says at 3:13 pm, March 18th, 2009

    …I call BULLSH%T!!! This guy couldn’t get laid in women’s prison with a fist full of pardons!!!

  37. Reese Witherspoon fantasy: ”You know, I’m on the pill.”
    Ross Douthat: “Me too.”

  38. Atlas Spanked says at 3:14 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Earth to Douthat: All the jaw-clenching and goatees still don’t hide your double chin.

    Super “L” in 24-point Times Roman bold.

  39. iwillsavethispatient says at 3:14 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Speaking of a chunkier version of Reese Witherspoon… I’m pretty sure there’ll be a children’s treasure trove of right-wing blogs about this. Those people people are making me angry, and I don’t even pay UK tax anymore.

  40. Lascauxcaveman says at 3:14 pm, March 18th, 2009

    ForTheTurnstiles: Haha! That’s great. My cousin who was in college at the same time I used to shout “Thank you, Freddy!” as a general-purpose exclamation of surprise or shocked dismay.

  41. Neon Trotsky says at 3:14 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Meh, that photo just makes me identify him with the bad guy from the 2002 movie Equilibrium, who secretly dabbled in the pleasures of “feeling” despite running a regime opposed to it. Huh, maybe they are the same person…

  42. Anonymous Office Zombie says at 3:16 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Our successful foray? Masticating? Wow, congratulations on owning a thesaurus. I guess that’s all it takes to be considered America’s Next Top Conservative Wunderkind.

    Hey, hey, let’s not jump to conclusions about sexual orientation here. It was probably just Douche Bag’s “conscience of Niebuhr” that was fucking-up his game.

  43. heroinmule says at 3:16 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Why was this written down and published?

  44. saggyboobedhag says at 3:17 pm, March 18th, 2009

    His mouth looks like an asshole.

  45. PAbitter says at 3:17 pm, March 18th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: it’s not pronounced “pwetty mouf.” It’s “purty mouth.”

  46. ForTheTurnstiles says at 3:18 pm, March 18th, 2009

    AngryBlakGuy: ABG on a roll today…

  47. Custerwolf says at 3:18 pm, March 18th, 2009

    She was actually saying “pillow” when he sat on her face.

  48. MarieDeGournay: His ability to get a boner, I’m assuming. Since he clearly isn’t sexually attracted to women, and her apparently-ample bosom (I can’t imagine small boobs being said to be “spilling out” of anything) prevented him from pretending that she was a prepubescent boy.

    Pilate: This also interfered with his normal fantasizing.

  49. skyinator says at 3:20 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Reminds me a bit of Chuckie Todd, with more hair.

  50. GooseInANoose says at 3:20 pm, March 18th, 2009

    “I retreated to the bathroom where, by the grace of God, a copy of the most recent National Review was tucked between a pair of Home & Gardens. Frantic, I turned to a photo of Kathryn Lopez and began to crank my johnson, but the pajama-clad harpies’ drunken calls hit like 3rd level sleep spells on my flaccid manhood. ‘Rooooosssssssss’ it moaned with the Vodka-soaked vulgarity of denied ecstasy, ‘Are you okay?’ My thoughts turned to escape. Was mother still up? Would she give me a ride home? Would she forgive such indiscretions? As another guttural groan spewed forth from my captor, the thought of ejaculating in the unnatural womb of Tracy Flick’s corpulent clone flooded my imagination like the memory of a fresh trauma. Disgusted, terrified, I reached for my cell phone…”

  51. Dave J. says at 3:21 pm, March 18th, 2009

    and then whatever residual enthusiasm I felt for the venture dissipated

    I really just absolutely hate the way these guys write. A chick was taking off her top for you and telling you she was on the pill, and you couldn’t get it up because (you claim) you had too much vodka. Ok, so tell it like that. Don’t take this psuedo-intellectual detached quasi-literary approach and think that an analytical tone of voice will distract me from the fact that you were suffering from softification of the wang.

  52. Unsilly says at 3:22 pm, March 18th, 2009

    These conservative dudes are so predictable: the only want sex with nonconsenting teenage boys.

  53. Dave J. says at 3:22 pm, March 18th, 2009

    GooseInANoose: Oooh, that’s good. Well done.

  54. lawrenceofthedesert says at 3:22 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Now that young Ross has completed “What I Did Last Summer,” he can move up to “My Pet Peeves.” (When is someone going to publish a conservative anthology entitled, “If It Feels Good, Don’t Trust It”?)

  55. american mutt says at 3:22 pm, March 18th, 2009

    How a liberal writes about drunken sex:

    I landed at LAX after a trip to DC and headed towards The Well in Hollywood. I got my Obama pins on on my Che shirt and fist bumped the hot blonde bartender as she served me my hefeweizen. Then like I twittered about how fucking cold it was at the inauguration. Anyway, this hot chick across the bar asked me about my obama stuff (i got fancy plates from the internet) and I said I support women’s rights and she said black people are going to rise up and take over. We then skedaddled back to her palce.

    Chapter 2: Head

  56. Come here a minute says at 3:23 pm, March 18th, 2009

    It gets better when they get to the felafel shower sex scene.

  57. jagorev says at 3:26 pm, March 18th, 2009

    What Douthat fails to mention, obviously, is that she had asked for payment up front and set the kitchen timer to ding after 15 minutes. NOT SEXY.

  58. Styrofoam Boots says at 3:30 pm, March 18th, 2009

    I think the problem he’s trying to convey is that it wasn’t a 12-year old boy who was “masticating” him. OH!

  59. sati demise says at 3:31 pm, March 18th, 2009

    swizzard: douche, that.

  60. Was she talking to him or their brother?

  61. masterdebater says at 3:31 pm, March 18th, 2009

    comradepaulson: That was my first thought!!! But, then I thought, if that’s a picture of the guy, he isn’t as likely to be gay as he is to be one of those bomb making wingnuts that live in the woods because the “gummint is out to get us”. That guy just doesn’t look good enough to be gay…or get laid at all for that matter. Yea, I think I’m calling bullshit on his whole story!

  62. shanemacgowan says at 3:33 pm, March 18th, 2009

    american mutt: Come here a minute: Both of your versions have appeal, but I believe that this is more realistic. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081126/NEWS/81126006

  63. kentuckienne2 says at 3:34 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Ha, as a soon-to-be-unemployed Harvard alumna, I can report that Mr. Douthat wrote 90% of the articles in the campus’ lone, painfully thin conservative newspaper. I used to read it for shits and giggles while I read breakfast, much as I read the “Washington Examiner” editorial page now. I do, however, have to give him credit for actually managing to see breasts before he graduated, even if he was apparently repulsed by them.

  64. SlouchingTowardsWasilla says at 3:36 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Does Chunkier Reese Witherspoon = Meghan McCain?

  65. GooseInANoose: hahaha!

  66. PrairiePossum says at 3:37 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Penthouse Forum wouldn’t publish that douchebag.

  67. Gorillionaire says at 3:38 pm, March 18th, 2009

    GooseInANoose: Proof that the world is not fair - Douchehat got paid for his “writing”, and you just wrote that for free.

  68. Mustang says at 3:39 pm, March 18th, 2009

    jagorev: Believe me. They would respnd with “You are an incredibly responsible individual. I think I like you[re=268161]

    AngryBlakGuy[/re]: I agree. Harvard or no Haaaavaaad, this guy looks like a creepy weirdo.

  69. Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! says at 3:40 pm, March 18th, 2009

    kentuckienne2: Um, Sara, is Ken still mad about the Bonus Army thing?

  70. S.Luggo & Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish!: One or both of you is funnin’ around here, an’ I can’t tell which. (It being The City and the Pillar and Gore Vidal who wrote it.) Tres postmoderne.

    It’s a pity Gore Vidal was murdered by the Manson Family before he could turn into some wizened self-exile would-be aristocrat who pops up every four years to declare the American Empire over. But his wife Tipper is hott.

  71. comradepaulson says at 3:40 pm, March 18th, 2009

    SlouchingTowardsWasilla: I believe we’ve figured out this Sacred Text of Douchethat. All the pieces of the puzzle are falling slowly into place.

  72. finland says at 3:41 pm, March 18th, 2009

    in response to me asking in comments what section of the book this exciting story was in brad DeL writes:
    “[About how horrible birth control is--that you should be scared of getting pregnant or getting her pregnant so that sex is a meaningful deed of overwhelming passion and love, and that the availability of birth control cheapens it...]”

    good to know i guess. but it drains the air out of my theory that this was the first part of the chapter called “how i met frank” :(

  73. Custerwolf says at 3:43 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: I attended a community college so the guys just asked, “are we gonna fuck or what?” I recall once dating a guy who was a less ridiculous male version of Douthat.

  74. Note to self: If you ever sleep with a conservative guy, tell them you’re ‘on abstinence’ (so Palinuesqe, so sexy!), hide your breasts, keep your tongue and lips to yourself (no nibbling) and don’t mess with their residual enthusiasm by talking. If all else fails, talk about Reagan.

  75. answerbird says at 3:46 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Gorillionaire: I’m with you brother. An agressive, slightly chunky Reese on the pill in pajamas + an ample amount of vodka = nirvana. Only a douchebag wouldn’t be excited by that! Is is just me, or is the entire Republican party now made up of repressed gay men and the women that are stuck with them?

  76. Hart88 says at 3:49 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Where is the “chunky Reese Witherspoon” these days? I’d LOVE to hear her side of the story.

  77. norbizness says at 3:50 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Atlas Spanked: From the Venture Brothers…

    Monarch Henchman #24 (to #21): “And remember, a beard is not a substitute for a jawline, no matter how you trim it.”

  78. Gopherit says at 3:52 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Just think about being paddled by your frat-brothers next time Douche-wit. You’ll get harder than a diamond.

  79. assistant/atlas says at 3:52 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Gorillionaire: “I would hit that like a perpetual motion machine” is my new favorite expression. I hope you’re okay with me using it frequently. Because I will regardless.

  80. Carrie_Okie says at 3:54 pm, March 18th, 2009

    swizzard: DoucheHat, Do Shat?

  81. comradepaulson says at 3:56 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Links: In short, never fuck a conservative. Roger that.

  82. Mista Eko says at 3:57 pm, March 18th, 2009

    davesnothere: I’m a little confused myself. But I think signs point to gay.

    “but then I wasn’t sure this was what I wanted. My throat was dry from too much vodka, and her breasts, spilling out of pink pajamas, threatened my ability to”

    It seems that the breasts are prohibiting him from getting what he wants. Yet men at any and all times just want breasts. If that isn’t screaming teh gay then I don’t know what does.

  83. cranky says at 3:59 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Custerwolf: are you saying Douthat is really a woman? now that would definitely explain how unconvincingly a man is being portrayed in the text!

  84. imissopus says at 4:01 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Tonight on the Factor, O’Reilly and Douthat share their tips for getting published in Penthouse Forum.

  85. Custerwolf says at 4:02 pm, March 18th, 2009

    That pouty little mouth of his is begging for some two-fisted love.

  86. NoWireHangers says at 4:05 pm, March 18th, 2009

    “That night, I learned a valuable lesson: never leave home before mother had fastened my chastity briefs. Never again.”

  87. Mustang says at 4:05 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Mista Eko: His ability to spill? Vomit? Semen?

  88. NoWireHangers says at 4:05 pm, March 18th, 2009

    american mutt: If only it were that easy to get laid at The Well…

  89. bonghitsforjesus says at 4:06 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Douche-hat needs to read Ayn Rand and learn how to really write a sex scene!

  90. Custerwolf says at 4:08 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: Well, I had to google some additional Doubthat photos to see if he always appeared so incredibly limp-dicked - and I finally found one that had him looking as though he would actually fuck his mother before cutting off her head.

  91. Monsieur Grumpe says at 4:09 pm, March 18th, 2009

    LNSer reject. Very sad.

  92. Mustang says at 4:10 pm, March 18th, 2009

    I just looked him up on Wikipedia. He looks even worse. Also, it indicates he converted to Catholicism when he was an adolescent. I’m sorry, and I’m a lapsed Catholic, but who converts to Catholicism in high school?

  93. Okay there needs to be a law forbidding unattractive bloated asshats from commenting on a woman’s weight.

    Hey Ross! Take a look in the freaking mirror!

  94. cranky says at 4:13 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Custerwolf: you have to be referring to the one where he is with abigail tucker.

  95. lampadadog says at 4:14 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Friends, let us not forget that this entire scene is described as a “successful foray”. Or at the very least–given the poor quality of the writing it is difficult to be certain–the ending of an otherwise “successful foray”!

    I don’t read “gay” out of this; I read that someone needs to be Punished thoroughly and told how Naughty he is for even thinking about Masticating and Tongues, much less Spilling! Chewing on his cheeks and advertising your birth control status are signs of eager submission, too overt and repugnant for Naughty Ross. Some more powerful woman needed to take him in hand. Or, he’s gay.

  96. NoWireHangers says at 4:15 pm, March 18th, 2009

    A criminal profiler could base their career on decoding the psychological implications of these Republican “novels”. In this particular passage, as with Mr. O’Reilly’s book yesterday, we see the manifestation of a man’s own self-hatred and perceived inadequacy as projected onto a female acquaintance or womankind in general. For example, Mr. Douthat sees himself as fat, balding, and repulsive, therefore any woman who would agree to sleep with him takes on these qualities by default. It’s a sad catch-22 which does not necessarily indicate homosexuality, as any sexual contact would most likely result in the same emotional response. Rather, this may be indicative of a sexual life comprised of tears and masturbation, often at the same time.

  97. Mustang: Fucking “Bobby” Jindal. Somehow going from Hindu to Catholic seems even worse.

  98. bfstevie@yahoo.com says at 4:18 pm, March 18th, 2009

    ForTheTurnstiles: Wow! What a great Zappa clip. Thanks, man.

  99. Don Diego Gallo del Pollo says at 4:21 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Mustang: Was there not enough guilt in Pentecostalism?

  100. Custerwolf says at 4:22 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: Actually, in that one he looks more like a Down’s Syndromey version of Leo DiCaprio. Don’t tell him that though - it’ll go to his non-flaccid head.

  101. Mustang says at 4:25 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Don Diego Gallo del Pollo: Excellent point.

  102. cranky says at 4:36 pm, March 18th, 2009

    what’s with all the people who assume hating women means your gay? most gay men ignore women or pretend to like them overly much. this guy isn’t gay, he’s a failed serial killer.

    Custerwolf: well then maybe Trig Palin can have a successful future as a conservative columnist.

  103. cranky says at 4:40 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Don Diego Gallo del Pollo: there never is. the pentecosteratti are all about fear, apparently as a teen he had already absorbed a mentally crippling dose of fear, and had to switch to something that could eat away at the rest of him, and he certainly couldn’t become a Jew.

  104. WadISay says at 4:42 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Chunky Reese Witherspoon is a Ben & Jerry’s flavor that tastes bitter and leaves you filled with remorse.

  105. Gorillionaire says at 4:49 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Mustang: A dude who needs to just go ahead and hook up with a dude, that’s who.

  106. He looks like the love child of Ricky Gervais and Orson Welles.

  107. NoWireHangers says at 4:52 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Mustang: Catholic converts are the worst. They’re the people who run into a burning building.

  108. Naked Bunny with a Whip says at 4:58 pm, March 18th, 2009

    I was confused and thought this was part of Douthat’s NYT column, which made it 1000x more interesting.

  109. iolanthe says at 5:00 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with it.

    Notice how it was the sight of breasts that *really* did him in.
    I agree. A chunkier Ryan Philippe would have gotten some play.

  110. iolanthe says at 5:04 pm, March 18th, 2009

    jagorev: About the vasectomy? I would ask for proof. As for the ribbed condoms, well … hell yeah! I’d rather be with a guy who brags about his condom collection than the myriad guys who whine and whine and whine about having to wear one.

  111. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 5:06 pm, March 18th, 2009

    I call bullshit. I’m pretty sure that was an episode of Friends.

    However, you do have to admire how he was able to work in Harvard and his impotence in the same paragraph. I am sure his writing for the Times will be just as good.

  112. Barrett808 says at 5:10 pm, March 18th, 2009

    President Beeblebrox: Goddammit, Beeblebrox, you beat me to the obligatory Scooter “Horny Bear” Libby porn.

  113. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 5:14 pm, March 18th, 2009

    So, has anyone read the chapter where he talks about how listening to Liza Minnelli set him free?

    Jerri: I always think he looks like that guy in his 30s that lives with his mom in the house that is just a little too close to the Catholic Girls School.

  114. Ken Layne says at 5:15 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: I think it’s the hating sex with women that’s leading to this closet diagnosis. The just-being-misogynist part is very manly.

  115. Oh, he makes me so hot with his sexy, sexy prose.

  116. cranky says at 5:28 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Ken Layne: hmm, i’m standing by it!

    i often run into this idea problem with the straight men i know, because i won’t hang around assholes. these guys are always shocked that there are straight men out there who are disgusted by sex with women, and they always insist those guys are gay. i submit that a survey of straight women who’ve fucked a few strangers in their lives would show that many straight guys are like this. not a majority, but a solid 10-15%.

    whorish straight ladies, what say you to my theory?

  117. iolanthe says at 5:30 pm, March 18th, 2009

    jagorev: About the vasectomy? I would ask for proof. As for the ribbed condoms, well … hell yeah! I’d rather be with a guy who brags about his condom collection than the myriad guys who whine and whine and whine about having to wear one.MarSF:

  118. Women are so yucky, with their breasts, and their nibbling… and their breasts.

    Oh look, a pre-pubescent boy! *schwing*

  119. iolanthe says at 5:32 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Mustang: Who converts to Catholicism in high school? Somebody who’s terrified of sex, for whatever reason. I’m surprised he didn’t head off to seminary.

  120. comradepaulson says at 5:34 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: As a whoreish straight lady, I have to say no. Scared by sex with a woman? Maybe, if she has a riding crop. Disgusted? No. They like the vagina. That’s why they are straight.

  121. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 5:39 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Dear Gay Penthouse Forum;
    I never thought I’d be writing to you, but …

  122. Custerwolf says at 5:40 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: As a whorish straight woman, yes, I have run into a few straight men who play these very strange games where you basically have to beg them for sex. I prefer a more assertive male - one whom I have to beat off rather than beat off, if you know what I mean.

  123. cranky says at 5:42 pm, March 18th, 2009

    comradepaulson: maybe i get all the pedophiles. just my luck. . .

  124. hobospacejungle says at 5:48 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Gorillionaire: Chunky Reese Witherspoon? I would hit that like a perpetual motion machine. What’s this fag’s problem?

    Thank you for making me laugh out loud heartily. And I agree. Regular Reese Witherspoon could use some meat on her bones.

  125. cranky says at 5:48 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Custerwolf: i think this might be closer to what i am trying to get at, those guys who find a woman wanting sex to be disgusting.

    i am not arguing for or against this freak be gay, i just think this could be very easily read his being disgusted by her being sexually assertive, rather than by her being female. that frankly is more fucked up, because the number of men his age who are akeered of a woman wanting sex from them is probably less than those with the gay.

    hopefully he is gay, the closet is more curable than the alternative.

  126. Custerwolf says at 5:56 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: Two of my examples are ex-boyfriends - and they both had HUGE stashes of (straight)porn I found out later. Now THAT is fucked up. Maybe I wasn’t spilling my breasts out of my jammies enough to arouse their manhood?

  127. Custerwolf says at 6:01 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: I guess the distinguishing factor here - gay or not - is whether the guy likes to fuck.

  128. Jukesgrrl says at 6:02 pm, March 18th, 2009

    GooseInANoose: Add a paragraph where, as he goes to meet Mommy, he trips over a body with a spoon hanging out of its mouth and you’ve got yourself a bestseller!

  129. DustBowlBlues says at 6:07 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: You were okay, Cranky. We got it. At least, I got it but I’m the kinder, more forgiving version of wonkeratti.

  130. comradepaulson says at 6:16 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: Custerwolf: I concede the point that a man may be frightened and/or disgusted by a woman who so clearly wants some dick. I just don’t think they are frightened or disgusted by womenfolk in general except for the haters, of course.

    This does not excuse Mr. Douthat, though, who is clearly gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that and I applaud the NYT for his appointment. It means we can argue about this every Monday until the Rapture finally arrives.

  131. psilage says at 6:32 pm, March 18th, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: LOL! Kid’s Ice Cream, Mandrake!

  132. Lionel Hutz Esq.: I don’t believe the two are mutually exclusive.

  133. windupbird says at 6:43 pm, March 18th, 2009

    hmm…….I once had a boyfriend who complained (once) that I wanted to do “it” too much, and that I needed to let him take the lead more. He was an asshole, too.

  134. Custerwolf says at 6:50 pm, March 18th, 2009

    windupbird: Was his name Mike?

  135. cranky says at 6:56 pm, March 18th, 2009

    windupbird: ha!

    windupbird: and Custerwolf:

    thank you, i appreciate your efforts on behalf of my attempt to focus on his dickishness (proven and known to be unfortunate) rather than gay (assumed, based on dickishness).

    DustBowlBlues:
    and thank you for noticing i was crankying about psychotic, little assholes, not men generally.

  136. comradepaulson says at 7:10 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: It’s just more fun for me (and others, I suspect) to mock him as gay, that’s all. He’s a conservative Christian prude: if you just call these guys a “dick” it doesn’t bother them as much. They think they’re right to be mean to the “whores.”

    I think Douthat is actually married. Which doesn’t prove anything either way. But yes, he is a proven dick.

  137. IceCreamEmpress says at 7:26 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Yes, the “boobies, EW” part is very gay. Very, very gay.

    Also, comparing women to chick-flick stars instead of porn stars is quite gay.

  138. cranky says at 7:38 pm, March 18th, 2009

    comradepaulson: that’s more effective if you are sending him missives he can read. (and i’m laughing as i type that, i love the idea of him being swamped with wonkette-style gay diagnoses. email him now!)

    i do think it’s fun to mock him for being a sexual coward. in fact, that would be a fun post once he’s been routed from the nytimes “douthat, sexual coward, columnless”.

    after a while, saying that every guy whose sexuality is fucking creepy is a fag just becomes really, unfunny. funny-notfunny.

  139. Gallowglass says at 7:45 pm, March 18th, 2009

    He’ll fit right in with the other conservative luminaries, on account of being so totally gay.

  140. Gallowglass says at 7:49 pm, March 18th, 2009

    MarieDeGournay: I wondered that too. “My ability to”…what? Put your penis inside her?

  141. comradepaulson says at 8:01 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: First off, I’m not being serious, obviously. The dude has issues, but I don’t know what his sexuality is. If we can’t call Jesus-y GOPers with sexual issues gay on Wonkette, then this site has lost all purpose and form. Hell, if we can’t call all these people the offensive names we want, then we might as well just become David Denby. And you pry the snark out of my cold, dead hands before that happens.

    Second, I feel this thread has had a tasty mixing of mocking both his sexual cowardice and his fake “gayness.” I’m sorry that the gay stuff is less funny to you, but there has been, I believe, a good amount of snark going either way on the issue.

  142. Gallowglass says at 8:06 pm, March 18th, 2009

    comradepaulson: He’s married? Ha! A beard for his beard.

  143. Gallowglass says at 8:11 pm, March 18th, 2009

    comradepaulson: It reminds me of the movie “Waiting” when Luis Guzman explains “The Game” (ambushing one another with penises): “And be sure to call the other guy a fag. The Game loses all meaning if you don’t deride your victim for being a fuckin’ meatcake,” Today, we ambushed Douchehat with our metaphorical penises. But he probably is gay. Also.

  144. K. Signal Eingang says at 8:24 pm, March 18th, 2009

    And then I accidentally my ability to.

  145. iolanthe says at 8:30 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: Sorry, Cranky! The guys I knew back in my Slut Days who were actually icked-out by womens’ bodies all ended up coming out as gay eventually.

    If 10% of the guys dating women actually feel this way in the presence of any horny reasonably attractive woman, well … 10% of the guys dating women probably shouldn’t be dating women. A straight guy, even if she’s “not his type”, will probably figure out how to carry on.

    One close friend of mine was engaged to a girl for five years. He was an odd one, though. He loved breasts (and still loves them, although he touches them like Harpo Marx honking a horn). But vaginas scare him silly, to this day. He is absolutely phobic about all the little folds and ruffles, etc.

    I always give him a different Georgia O’Keefe calendar, every Christmas ’cause that’s the kind of friend I am.

  146. IceCreamEmpress says at 8:36 pm, March 18th, 2009

    after a while, saying that every guy whose sexuality is fucking creepy is a fag just becomes really, unfunny. funny-notfunny.

    I think that we can safely call every guy who writes ‘EW BOOBIES’ in his memoir gay. Whether or not you find that funny.

  147. Custerwolf says at 8:37 pm, March 18th, 2009

    hobospacejungle: And here I thought Mr. Douchehat was the only person on earth who could use words like “bones,” “Reese Witherspoon” “on her” and “meat” in one sentence and not make one single reference about fucking.

  148. Studge says at 8:53 pm, March 18th, 2009

    I would do anything for love, but I won’t Douthat.

  149. Custerwolf says at 9:05 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Vaginaphobes aside - I was just saying that some dudes (dudes like Ms.Douchee?)act like they want the chick to be the sexual aggressor while they just lay back with their smug superior little “do me” attitudes - and I’m like, “Hey, do you wanna fuck or what?” Because why fuck someone who’s not into it - when there’s always someone else who is? For me, the greatest aphrodisiac is pure, unadulterated LUST. That and a big dick.

  150. Mr Blifil says at 9:06 pm, March 18th, 2009

    “I’m on the pill, which I’m informing you so that you will think about all the OTHER MEN’S PENISES I’VE SEEN AND STUCK INSIDE ME.”

    Now the question is: does the flooding of his imagination with an army of penises cause his dysfunction, or does he just need to cover the fact that he’s turned on by pretending to be impotent? Noted opinionist/humorist Alexander Woolcott was famous around the Algonquin Roundtable for being “asexual.” Which meant he only liked to fuck and suck men and boys. I think our boy Asshat is in this predicament.

  151. PsycGirl says at 9:36 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: Once the man establishes that he is repulsed by sex with women, we tend not to interrogate further because what’s the point, really? You know you’re definitely not getting any oral out of him so it’s time to move on.

  152. slinkimalinki says at 9:40 pm, March 18th, 2009

    cranky: as a whorish woman, i’ve only met one guy like that, so we’re basically looking at around 1%

  153. PsycGirl says at 9:42 pm, March 18th, 2009

    windupbird: Isn’t that like someone getting the car of their dreams for Christmas and bitching about the color of the giant bow on it?

  154. This guy’s brooding visage needs some Blingee work.

  155. …These are not my sister’s pajamas! These are not my mother’s breasts!

  156. Pop Socket says at 10:22 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Not gay, but a complete douchebag. Trashing a woman that wants to bone him for being overweight. Pot meet kettle. Wants to fuck him bareback but his nutjob Catholic repression about birth control gives him qualms. Blames his impotence on her over-eagerness. He is going to be a barrel of laughs.

  157. comradepaulson: i’d say it is funny for a while, but i obviously spend a lot of time here on the wonkette, while a few make me giggle, somewhere around the 50th “fag!” joke, i feel defeated by unfunny. the 50th “truck nutz!” has the same impact. there is so much good-funny, such a breadth of mockable, snark-ass magic that can be unloaded on this guy, i hate to see the lazy take control.

    what i’m saying is: i’m here all day, entertain me better you lazy bastards!

  158. sanantonerose says at 10:34 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Wow. I have so much more respect for him now for not fucking some drunken chunky chick. Asshole!

  159. loupgarou says at 10:42 pm, March 18th, 2009

    Conservative found simultaneously to want and loathe sex. In other news, prominent liberatarian expresses objects to arrest for marijuana possession.

  160. mylesfromnowhere says at 10:51 pm, March 18th, 2009

    If I can’t get the talking book version done by Best Selling PronWriter Bill OReilly, I don’t want to hear about it.

  161. Aquannissiwamissoo says at 11:09 pm, March 18th, 2009

    If she had only worn crotchless pantaloons.

    That, as Robert Frost said, would have made all the difference.

  162. freerangemink says at 11:15 pm, March 18th, 2009

    jagorev: Wrong.

  163. expatinOz says at 11:29 pm, March 18th, 2009

    I’m guessing Douche-hat has some serious man cans, so he should not be afraid of the boobies. Unless he’s just jealous cuz hers are bigger.

    cranky: Um, I’m a chunky girl and I’ve never had a problem by boys icked out by sex with me…at least, if they are, we’ve never gotten to the me-in-my-pjs-tits-hanging-out-sexytimes point…oh wait, there was the one guy, but he’s a lonely sad wanker who bitches like a Heather and doesn’t understand why he sucks with the womens when it’s cuz he’s awkward and rude and a crap kisser.

  164. Custerwolf says at 11:52 pm, March 18th, 2009

    expatinOz: I had one of those once. He was one of those guys who had obviously never posed (to a living woman) that all-important question , “does that feel good?”

  165. expatinOz says at 12:06 am, March 19th, 2009

    Custerwolf: Yeah, frankly I wasn’t too sad to see the back of that guy. He hit on me again last time I saw him, he’s a friend of a friend, and all I could think was, “Really? Because last time was sooo fun?” and I knocked him back and found someone hotter to pash.

  166. iolanthe: That is the meanest gift ever, and for that I applaud you. That’s even worse than me almost getting my granddad that Naked Obama on Unicorn painting, and yours is also a billion times more subtle in terms of fear realization.

  167. Custerwolf says at 12:20 am, March 19th, 2009

    expatinOz: Good on ya mate.

  168. Letter From Siberia says at 12:40 am, March 19th, 2009

    “One successful foray”. This dude needs to buy himself a new dictionary. But we already know that.

  169. Custerwolf says at 12:46 am, March 19th, 2009

    Letter From Siberia: It was mis-transcribed, he meant to write, “unsuccessful foreplay.”

  170. cranky says at 1:45 am, March 19th, 2009

    expatinOz: ok, i’m sorry, but this makes no sense. a lot of people are saying “never” or 1%, or “yeah but they were all gay”. sorry, but i’m not buying the idea that 99 to 100% of straight men are completely comfortable with their sexualities and/or women’s bodies. 99-100% of nobody is perfect.

    some straight men do have whacked feelings/thoughts/attitudes/behaviors towards women’s bodies and/or sexualities, because that is normal. most handle it in reasonable ways, like most every other man and woman on earth. but some people don’t, and not every man who has blatantly fucked up attitudes about women’s sexuality is gay.

    i’m willing to go along with all the people who are just being shitty to this little douche and giving him some stick, but anyone who seriously posits the 99-100% of straight men are perfectly comfortable with women won’t be taken seriously by me. it’s just too silly.

  171. cranky says at 1:47 am, March 19th, 2009

    expatinOz: and crap kissers are the worst. worst!

  172. “My throat was dry from too much vodka, and her breasts, spilling out of pink pajamas, threatened my ability to.” That’s the complete sentence? Ladies and Gentleman of the jury, if this is a sentence written by a man who went to Harvard, he needs to ask for a full tuition refund. Or, Harvard should get it’s degree back. Also, if he had had “too much vodka,” he might have had to ask chunky Reese for a little knob-gobbling to get Mr. Happy happening, but he would have done her. Also.
    Ross, my man, when another bearded typewriter jockey whom I bet you idolize found that he could no longer drink or screw, he did the right thing and blew his brains out with a shotgun.

  173. hobospacejungle says at 2:03 am, March 19th, 2009

    Thank you all for making me horny in a strange kind of way. Especially the wimminz talking dirty. I realize we are here to crack on Mr. Douchehat, but the law of unintended consequences has occasionally made my pants tight today. Please more posts that stimulate (heh) conversations about sex, please, Wonkette Overlords.

    And I’m still laughing at “hit that like a perpetual motion machine.”

  174. lightninglouie says at 3:07 am, March 19th, 2009

    Poor dude never got over being rejected by Natalie Portman back in Harvard (source: http://slate.msn.com/id/2114657/?GT1=6208):

    We do, however, hear—and at great length—about how Douthat failed to get into the “final club” of his choice… and how a certain campus starlet (who “would have been pretty had it not been for the ghostly, heavily made-up pallor of her skin and the coldness of her eyes”) refused to acknowledge his existence.

  175. JDHART says at 7:31 am, March 19th, 2009

    Slutty women are so disgusting. But slutty men … now you’re talking!

  176. CampbellBrown' says at 9:20 am, March 19th, 2009

    Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

  177. zhubajie says at 9:44 am, March 19th, 2009

    DustBowlBlues: Probably a spiced up diary entry.

    Zhu Bajie

  178. iolanthe says at 10:46 am, March 19th, 2009

    IceCreamEmpress: Backed.

  179. norbizness says at 11:12 am, March 19th, 2009

    It’s worse that we could have imagined (not his infantile Sky Fairy-informed position on stem cell research, but that picture where he looks like Charles Laughton after a night out drinking with Christopher Hitchens).

  180. Custerwolf says at 11:14 am, March 19th, 2009

    cranky: Worst.

  181. Mr Blifil says at 1:11 pm, March 19th, 2009

    iolanthe: Tripled.

  182. Gallowglass says at 4:04 pm, March 19th, 2009

    lightninglouie: Wow. I just read that review and now I hate Douchehat more than I did before. “Corn-fed” Southerners, “Blank-faced” Asians? And then he talks about how Harvard is a sink of privilege and condescension? Eat a dick, Douthat.

    And Natalie Portman didn’t talk to you because you’re a sneeringly self-important twat-waffle, not because of her make-up and “cold eyes”

  183. Hagar77 says at 1:15 am, March 20th, 2009

    If this is the conservative movement’s new shining literary light, someone get out the bushel basket; there was far better material than that in my high school literary magazine, and I am from East Tennessee.

  184. loupgarou says at 3:27 am, March 20th, 2009

    That is some serious SAD, to max out on religion when you’re in freakin’ high school. I expect people to get all churchy when they’re old as hell; they can’t enjoy sex any more, so they might as well seek enjoyment where they can, and being censorious fits the bill for many.

    But some attain to that level of prowess before others, so fair play to Ross.

  185. So my question is, is it part of God’s plan that this guy’s name is approximately what you get when you cross “douche” and “asshat”?

  186. what tha? says at 12:17 pm, May 11th, 2009

    jagorev: How about full disclosure on cold/and, or/allergy medications? Foot creams? Scalp treatments?

  187. MickFinn says at 4:09 pm, May 15th, 2009

    Definitely another toe-tapping Larry Craig-er - so now the bathrooms really aren’t safe for Rush Limbaugh at the NYT . . .

  188. JJPasadena says at 3:48 pm, June 1st, 2009

    The only thing successful about that “foray” is that he found out that he wasn’t into girls.

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