I’m not expecting him to be PC. I’m expecting him to be well-informed on the subject if he’s going to go through the trouble of bringing it up. I know part of his schtick is to be a misogynistic asshole, and I don’t approve of it, which is not to say that I haven’t agreed with him on OTHER things politically (like the environment). It’s just when he opens his mouth about women, it’s very apparent he hates them with every fiber of his being, and I’m not going to sit there and take it without making a comment about it.

Yeah, Bill Maher labels himself a comedian, and, as with all comedians, sometimes their jokes fall flat. In this case, Bill Maher fell totally flat and alienated a significant portion of the population (even with low breastfeeding rates, breastfeeding mothers compose a significant percentage of the population).

Also, don’t compare Bill Maher to Stephen Colbert. Their styles of comedy are totally different. Bill Maher is plain malicious in a lot of his comedy while Stephen Colbert mostly uses a lot of reverse psychology in his. They are completely different animals. Additionally, Stephen Colbert isn’t a misogynist, nor has he given any indication he hates children. More importantly, though, Stephen Colbert is FUNNY.

I did look him up on wikipedia, and there are some equally terrible quotes with Bill Maher equating children who are “retarded” (his word, not mine) with dogs, so I suppose if he can stupe that low, nothing else should be a surprise.

Definitely. The fact that he can’t make the connection between discouraging public breastfeeding and therefore encouraging bottle-feeding and doesn’t relate that to environmental issues speaks volumes not only of his misogyny, but of his inability to make easy connections in his woman-hating, misfiring brain.

A Whole Lot of Nothing:

Woo-hoo!! I’m glad you like the shirt!

I wrote about the situation before BM’s idiotic rant:
http://awholelotofnothing.net/?p=42

Just last week he made a huge deal out of a guest from PETA, who explained the connection between raising cows and global warming.

This week, he tells nursing women to stay home and put their boobs away. You know Bill, that really makes a lot of sense. Just think about it for a minute, or maybe you’re too busy ranting about the importance of natural foods to realize that you just PUT A BUNCH OF MONEY IN THE POCKET OF DAIRY BUYPRODUCT-PEDDLING FORMULA COMPANIES.

Every somewhat misogynist ass who sees this show now has fuel for the fire next time they ask their wife/girlfriend/friend/relative/complete-stranger-they-have-no-reason-to-say-anything-to, to cover up/stay home/do that in the restroom.

You can’t schedule breastfeeding and carry on with it successfully past the first few months. If you’re not someone who can pump and staying home is the only option, either you willingly isolate yourself or you wean your kids to formula. Or, just go out and ignore the idiots.

It is clear he hates women and children in how he talks about them. This has been pretty evident from his stand-up, to Politically Incorrect, to his present show on HBO. Just in the video segment above he says, “[sarcastic] …You made a baby!…[end sarcasm]… Something a DOG can do.” He clearly hates women, children, and anything remotely female… Unless it’s for his own pleasure — then he’s o.k. with it… A sexist double-standard which serves him and deletes the notion that females or anything remotely feminine are to be taken seriously. Clearly he’s a misogynist.

And it’s not “How do you go from not wanting to watch breastfeeding to hating women?” It’s more that he already hates women and has repeatedly demonstrated that he has been hating them for years, so for him to be repulsed by breastfeeding in public and denouncing lactivists and lactivism as “petty” and a cause not worth fighting for is only natural for him to do, since disregarding the needs of women (and children) and not even attempting to understand them is what he’s accustomed to doing.

So, to respond to your question: NO. No feminist non sequiturs here.

Thanks to you and Lesley for commenting.