Peter Morris

I have no idea who this Peter Morris person is, but he's in the running for jerk of the week on the feminist web. He's got an article in the Guardian online called "Fatherhood Ruined my Marriage - Twice". It's already been taken down on Pandagon and Lawyers, Guns and Money, but he deserves a place here.

Here are some choice quotations (it's all dreadful):

"most women haven't a clue what the birth of a child does to a man's life."

"When my wife told me she was pregnant, my first thought was: "Hurrah - a boy."

"The birth wasn't an experience I savoured or shared with any enthusiasm ... I wasn't used to the sight of a red-faced woman screaming and swearing and threatening dire reprisals towards me for having the effrontery to make her pregnant. It was uncomfortable and embarrassing for us both, and we never spoke of the birth again."

"From being the focus of my wife's life, I quickly learned that I was down the pecking order. When I came home from work, all the talk was about the baby."

"I spent more time in the office and less time pandering to the unwelcome intruder who was ruling the roost at home. "

"my wife was getting most of her emotional needs satisfied through the maternal bond."

"I tried the having an affair approach,"

"but that ended in double disaster with divorce from my wife and the new mistress soon pregnant."

"Most men have extreme difficulty in handling the move from husband or lover to father, and I still think a better balance is healthier all round. It shouldn't always be child first."

He says that he was "immature" when his child was born - understatment of the century. How does psychopathic sound?

Newsflash: it wasn't fatherhood that ruined your marriage you stupid jerk, it was YOU!

If it's for real, it's an insult to men and fathers and the Guardian should have known better than to let it past. This guy needs serious help with his personality disorder and they let him speak for all fathers!

EDit: It's been called to my attention that the above comment is an insult to people with personality disorders. I agree and apologise. He needs treatment for his extreme jerkdom, but I have a feeling it's too late.

Hat tip: The Happy Feminist

Rush Limbaugh

Would you like to be sexually harrassed by this guy? He thinks you would. In fact, he thinks you'd like to be harrassed by any man who takes it into his head to harrass you. Here are some examples of the scintillating cultural analysis, oh no, sorry, I meant to say stinking verbal vomit from his show.


"Some of these babes, I'm telling you, like the sexual harassment crowd. They're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes."


"Oh, gosh, that hurts, my friends. It reminds me of my first wife. Ah! Gee! It is just painful to hear this, and then she [Hillary Clinton] starts yelling everywhere -- Dawn, you can smile. She's in there shaking her head. She's -- she's here in a den of sexists, folks, and she puts up such a game front. Chauvinists, I should say. We're not sexists, we're chauvinists -- we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want."


"I’m not talking -- I know how many of you want to be sexually harassed -- that’s not what I’m asking. But if somebody wants to hire you to look good for whoever is the first to walk in the door every day, why not, if that’s your asset?"


"Now, I have a real-world question for those of you women in the audience. Just something I’d like to know. How many of you in the secrecy and privacy of your own dreams and hopes would love to be hired as eye candy?"


Are you feeling harrassed yet? Are you enjoying it? No?

Imagine being hired as eye candy for Rush .... that thought's better than a cold shower any day.

Obviously Rush is a seriously professional jerk and prides himself on it, but it's not a little scary that an idiot like this can get famous just by spouting shit. Can you imagine what would happen if a female DJ started saying similar stuff about men? I wonder how long she'd be on the air.

As the women at Feministing.com put it "Ah, you gotta love Rush. Well, in that “I want to stab you in the eye” kind of way."

Via Feministing.com.


p.s can't you just imagine our internet troll friends building little shrines to Rush in their houses?

Beryl Bainbridge

I'll let her speak for herself:

"I am not a feminist in the slightest. I was brought up to believe that women were much superior to men, only you kept it very quiet. I remember an occasion at some feminist meeting, years ago with Fay Weldon, and I happened to bring up rape and all the women got rather hostile. My theory is that as long as there is no violence – no holding a knife to you – it can't be classified as rape. A husband can't rape a wife; I don't think it is possible. As long as you're not a virgin I don't understand what all the fuss is about. When I was younger you just didn't mention abuse, whether it was by strangers or your husband. You just got on with it and it didn't half help you to deal with men."

Quoted in the Observer's New Woman Magazine.

I'm not surprised that the women at the meeting got pissed off with her, sheesh! Obviously Beryl is here working with a different definition of rape than the one normally accepted. We would usually argue that what matters is the consent of the victim, wheareas for her, consent is irrelevant and it's only violence that makes it rape, unless of course it's your husband, in which case, there can be no rape whatever he does to you, I presume. Yes, let's all go back to the good old days when women didn't mention abuse. Why does she refer to it as "abuse" in this sentence when she's just said it isn't abuse in the one previously? Talk about self-contradiction. Also, Beryl seems to think that once a woman has been penetrated once, her vagina is then forever primed and ready for sex at any moment and she therefore cannot be raped. And despite all of this women are much superior to men! What the fuck is this woman on?

I suspect she thinks she's being ever so anti-PC cool and edgy by saying this sort of thing, but no, she just being a prime jerk.

If I was in charge of everything, Beryl would have to pay a penalty for this comment. The sentence: 3 months community service working in a rape crisis centre.

Via The F Word.