“It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.” MindIdeasOrderReligiousInstinctDenialClosetsAffinityHelmBashers Author:Julian Sanchez
“We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsKindWarHandsKidsSchoolCultureMorningGayBeatsAdultsAbuseLaysAbstractJailMondayLicenseBallotsGay PeopleAfarRoaringMonday MorningBashers Author:Dan Savage
“I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsFeminismProudAmbitionMalesEverydayFeministDirtyEncountersSexismDividesMy AmbitionStood UpDirty WordsBackseatBashers Author:Janeane Garofalo
“After the war in Afghanistan, Anna [Wintour, editor of Vogue], deciding to save the world one hair-roller at a time, thought the best way to help the women in this beleaguered country was to start a small beauty school in Kabul, where aid workers could get their roots done. Vanity Fair, edited by Bush-basher Graydon Carter, cheered her great humanitarian effort.” WorldWayWarCountryDoneHelpingSchoolEffortHairFairsRootsWorkersHumanitarianAidsBest WayVanityEditorsAfghanistanCarterSave The WorldAnnaVogueEditedVanity FairKabulBashersGreat Humanitarian Author:Myrna Blyth
“What a pleasure to hear Michael Savage backtalk to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, there is such hypocrisy with her. I didn't start out as a Clinton basher; I started out hopeful years ago. What she's doing here is merely damage control because her drugs have come under criticism.” KnowsYearsPleasureDrugYears AgoCriticismClintonDamageHypocrisyHopefulSavagesBashersDamage Control Author:Peter Breggin
“Donald Trump is not an immigrant basher. His mother was a legal immigrant. His wife is a legal immigrant. He employs legal immigrants. He just likes his immigrants to be legal.” MotherWifeTrumpLikesImmigrantsBashers Author:Newt Gingrich
“I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.” YearsEnoughExistenceHollywoodJustifyApologyGood MovieBashers Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.” SaidMightGuestsTomsBedroomSantaStairsSanta ClausNinjaCavalryBashers Author:Jonathan Maberry
“Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.” WayWritingDoneStoriesNextGoes OnSentencesAwfulOver ItFixingThe Next OneOne SentenceBashers Book:Timequake Source: Timequake
“Most gay bashers will be wearing what gay people had on four years earlier - only in polyester with a Penney's label.” PeopleYearsFourGayLabelsFour YearsGay PeopleBashers Author:Paul Rudnick
“Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.” ThinkingWellsIdeasMightWould BeTalkingNo IdeaFollowersBadgesBashBashers Author:Janeane Garofalo
“Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle, complex systems ran themselves just fine without benign intervention seemed like it could only be the product of a quasi-religious faith. ... Of course, this gets things almost precisely backwards. It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.” MindIdeasMightOrderCoursesReligiousPrinciplesFieldsParticularProductsFineClaimsInstinctComplexesNotionDenialRanClosetsBackwardsInterventionReligious FaithSkepticalAffinityBenignHelmComplex SystemsBashers Author:Julian Sanchez
“To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.” IfsThinkingMenWantTryingMatterCharacterSeemsNextFeltMorningImpossibleHe ManSittingMen And WomenTablesMalesOneselfFeministInterpretationSay AnythingConferencesInvitingMusingsAnti FeministBashers Author:Deborah Tannen
“There is a cottage industry of these Muslim bashers who are training law enforcement personnel, military personnel... and you are breeding a generation of leaders in our society who have this suspicion of Islam and hostility towards American Muslims and Muslims in general. The intention of these trainers is to demonise Islam and to marginalise American Muslims.” LawLeaderGenerationsMilitaryIndustryTrainingIntentionIslamOur SocietySuspicionLaw EnforcementEnforcementHostilityBreedingTrainersCottagesPersonnelMilitary PersonnelBashers Author:Ibrahim Hooper
“To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.” IfsWorldEnoughLetting GoGood EnoughOperaEmbarrassingSoapNot Good EnoughSoap OperasBashers Author:Cam Gigandet