Another despicable man shaping media narrative on women politicians---matt taibbi

[cally]

http://observer.com/2000/06/from-russia-with-lust/

His coworker and friend: (plenty about Taibbi personally in the story)

He spoke about his sex life in Moscow. “Russian women, especially on the first date, expect you to rape them,” said Mr. Ames. “They’ll go back home with you and say, ‘No, no, no,’ and if you’re an American, you’ve been trained to respect the ‘No,’ because you’re afraid of sexual harassment or date rape, and so you fail over and over. But it took me a while to learn you really have to force Russian girls, and that’s what they want, it’s like a mock rape. And then you come back here and you’re really freaked out–because you don’t know if that actually exists deep in all women’s psyches, that that’s what they all want. All relations between guys and girls is basically violent, I think. It’s all war.”

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. If there is plenty about Taibbi, why not post it?

Your headline does not match your post.

[Me.]

3. THere's More Than Plenty

Twenty years ago, in Moscow, Matt Taibbi was a misogynist asshole—and possibly worse

“But Ames and Taibbi additionally write about how they also mercilessly sexual harassed and occasionally assaulted the women they encountered, both their colleagues in the Exile office and Russian women—some as young as 15—they met socially. Many of these passages have previously been quoted in Internet forums such as Reddit, but they took on a new life this morning on Twitter. Bayne summarized them in her review:

Most notably, the Exile nurtures a peculiarly vicious and schizoid attitude toward women. While Russian women are rhapsodically celebrated as long-legged gazelles with loose morals—"the most physically attractive women on earth, and . . . usually available to the highest bidder," expat women are ridiculed at length as "fat-ankled" and defensively sexless. Self-hating geeky American men are encouraged to take advantage of the perception that all Americans are rich and have oodles of condomless sex (sometimes in the ass!) with drunk, nubile dyevushkas. Ex-girlfriends are held up to public ridicule—Ames at one point chronicles his threats to kill a pregnant ex if she won't have an abortion….cont…

“But . . . it is funny,” Matt said.

We have been pretty rough on our girls. We’d ask our Russian staff to flash their asses or breasts for us. We’d tell them that if they wanted to keep their jobs, they’d have to perform unprotected anal sex with us. Nearly every day, we asked our female staff if they approved of anal sex. That was a fixation of ours. “Can I fuck you in the ass? Huh? I mean, without a rubber? Is that okay?” It was all part of the fun. Fun that Kara was no part of.”…cont…

https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2017/10/27/twenty-years-ago-in-moscow-matt-taibbi-was-a-misogynist-asshole-and-possibly-worse

[smirkymonkey]

8. That's just sick.

What pigs. The thing that bothers me is that so many men think like this. Not all men, but too many men.

[SharonClark]

9. Creeps

[Me.]

2. The Great Lie They So Want To Believe

"that actually exists deep in all women’s psyches, that that’s what they all want"

[MineralMan]

4. Somehow, this does not surprise me.

I find him thoroughly unlikable on many levels.

Ick!

[WhiteTara]

6. I've been "shamed" for having not liked

him from the beginning. Now I know why. (Note to self: reaffirmation of intuition)

[MineralMan]

7. I know. A lot of things that were happening last year

have been shown to have been wrong. Many of the people who were doing that are no longer on DU. It's all part of the progression.

I'm skeptical, by nature. So, proving to me that a person who comments on political news is right isn't always easy. There are a lot of prominent pundits and opinionators out there who have biases that color their comments. I'm always watching for those.

Taibbi is one such person who has always sent up internal alarm signals for me.

[delisen]

5. Taibbi and Ames-couple of sick bullies

[ismnotwasm]

10. Yup.