ANN COULTER IS A FAG: A Deconstruction

I was more than a little disheartening to to hear the College Morons at one of my Alma Maters (for those keeping score-the Jesuit one) decided that, at this time of national crisis, when the disasterously stupid policies of King George are raining holy hell down everywhere, and even the Ur NeoCon's have repudiated the Iraq War (thanks...wish you'd thought that through 3800 dead Americans ago) have decided to bring Ann "Gore/Edwards/Liberal/Progressives are Fags" Coulter to speak to the faithful, who, by the way, are obviously not learning a fucking thing in school (or, more aptly, are learning everything they need from the WASP-wannabes at that institution-think Miami, only with a little more guilt. Only a little, though...).

Then again, they had Hannity in a few years back, so there you go.

Anyway, the word "fag" and "faggot", as a term of derision, comes from the Middle English, and means a woman or a child, and, thus, by extrapolation through the patriarchy, becomes a word of abuse directed at homosexual men, who, by virtue of their homosexuality, are thought of as less than manly, effeminate, even.

If we know anything about Annie, she loves the patriarchy. As Bill Maher pointed out in his recent comedy special, this does not means that she believes that Gore or Edwards are homosexuals, but she does believe that the consensus building, the thoughtful policy decisions, and careful study are less than manly. She might as well have called them geeks, but Annie, oh Annie, you are sooo redstate, and as the other redstaters know, that geeks are really faggots, right, because smart people make you feel stupid and thus...they have to be gay or something?!

After all, John Wayne couldn't be bothered to read. I just saw The Green Berets the other day, and that fucker probably couldn't do his ABC's. But he could kickass-or appear to, and that's all that really matters, right?


Ann Coulter, in a particular sense of the word, as a woman, is a fag herself, but what's interesting is the element of self loathing here, because she certainly doesn't seem to give a shit about other women, or the justice they fight for. Ann is all about the status quo, because that is how she makes her money, and to look at the misery the WASP patriarchies have foisted upon this country, and indeed, the world, and decide, as a member of an oppressed group, that this is a good thing makes one self loathing, to put it nicely.

So, either Ann Coulter is a cynical opportunist, or a self loathing fag, in the Middle English Sense.

Then again, there is that Adam's Apple, that love of Patriarchy, and all that butch bluster...

Perhaps Ann Coulter is a male homosexual trapped in a woman's body. I wouldn't be the first to speculate this, but the point I'm trying to make is a linguistic one; more specifically, a semiotic one, for it is Coulter and her ilk who poison the sign, only to hide behind some kind of detached tough pose-you know, "I'm only kidding." Except that she isn't: the valence here is exactly what you are feeling, my queer brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, moms and dads out there. This isn't some bullshit post modern irony here...this is, in fact, what it seems to be. Ann Coulter, regardless of whatever gender identity issues she struggles with, regardless of however deeply she buries herself in an a booze and bile GOP closet, she is exactly as she appears to be; the very embodiement of every negative valence surrounding this word "fag": a spineless woman, genuflecting through WASP entitlement, a child quaking at the sound of the stern father's voice, without critical thought, hell, without self reflection, and a fawning sycophant.

Perhaps Ann's love of this word is just another act of projection...

Unfortunately, I think it bodes ill for the health of this country that a semiotic train wreck has admirers, but hey...they are the Establishment, at least they'd like to think so.