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Kerry Howley talks to blogger-cum-novelist Ana Marie Cox (AKA Wonkette) about D.C. scandals, the "special olympics of sex," and her new book Dog Days.
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How totally true about the "Hot for DC" comment. Someone help a single guy out, seriously.
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Curiously enough, I was just at wonkette.com for one of my very infrequent visits. I see its daily dish of pulp politics is still being served. People find this stuff even remotely interesting?
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blogger-cum-novelist
You know, that joke just writes itself. -
PJ,
I know a Peruvian girl who is looking for permanent residency if you are interested. She is really cute too.
Anyway, I think Ana is cool. I don't have much more to contribute than that. I just like her. -
thoreau:
The beauty is it breaks down to either "blogger-cum" or "cum-novelist." It's funny either way. -
A "blogger cum" novelist: one who writes novels about blogger sex.
A "blogger/cum novelist": one who writes books about bloggers and sex.
A "blogger, cum novelist": one who writes a blog, and also writes books about sex. -
Just got back from Wonkette. The feminists among us will not be surprised that it will take two Wankers to replace one Wonkette.
There is no word on any name change for that blog. -
I'm pretty sure 'blogger cum' is a post so snarky that it curls your toes.
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"Capitolette," huh. How long did she work thinking that one up?
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I'm working on an idea for a novel about a switch-hitting, Beltway blogger who accepts payments for blogging items from all comers to be called the AC/DCienne.
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I don't read any blogger that hasn't been caught looking for a barebacking good time. So I basically just check out Andrew Sullivan and Ron Bailey.
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No Herrick, you're just here to see if the carpet humper has any new tricks.
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...blogging items from all comers...
NoStar, shouldn't that be:
...blogging items from all cummers...
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Yeah, if you're going to go with Capitol-something, Capitolina is much better, especially if you pronounce it like the Roman hill: emphasis on "pit". I'm still trying how to work the -trix suffix (the absolute best sex-related ending) on a Capitol name.
Capitoltrix
Capitrix
Capitolatrix
Either way, sounds like an ancient Gallic king.
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Rimfax,
The one time I try to subtle, I get called on it.
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...try to BE subtle...
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"hot for D.C."
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Speaking of -trix endings, it just occurred to me the other day: you hear about dominatrices all the time, but why is it that you never hear the masculine form, "dominator"? Someone will probably inform me how sheltered I am now.
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M. NoStar:
I'm working on an idea for a novel about a switch-hitting, Beltway blogger who accepts payments for blogging items from all comers to be called the AC/DCienne.
Tag line: "She'll take one for both teams."
Were you, yes, to include a scene or two, with, say, an apparatchick who becomes overly excited as ze fabrics again drape ze breast of a statutette, and zen zere is great sex between he, she, and ze statue, we would look upon your book, and perhaps make you a ManyStar.
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Is this the same person who posts over at FourthTurning under the nom "Wonkette"?
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Reviews of the book aren't very encouraging. Then again the few times I visited her website I found it rather inane.
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Yeah just what i need after 3 years of the Clinton sex scandel filling MSM now we get more DC sex scandel...hey unless soemone is dead, raped, or molests a child i don't want to hear another thing about my elected reps sex lives.
Anyway I have seen her on c-span (never touched her blog) and from what i saw i think for being a politico tattooed sex kitten i would probably be better off going to suicide girls...the political analysis there is probably better as well. -
Speaking of -trix endings, it just occurred to me the other day: you hear about dominatrices all the time, but why is it that you never hear the masculine form, "dominator"? Someone will probably inform me how sheltered I am now.
Possible answer #1: It might be that you hear about dominatrices "all the time" because it's relatively P.C. for a woman to be a dominatrix -- she's an "empowered woman" -- and she is therefore a relatively safe figure to be intrigued by or giggle about. The dominatrix figure is now a relatively acceptable part of pop culture -- she shows up in comedy stand-up routines, sitcoms, soap operas, etc. But it's not P.C. for a man to be a "dominator," even in a purely sexual sense. Such a man is assumed by many to be a throw-back macho chauvinist pig at best, and a mentally ill woman-hater at worst.
Possible answer #2: Also, most people who are actively into "dominance and submission" sex generally refer to the participants as being "dominants" or "submissives," often shortened to "doms" and "subs." When gender is being specified, they refer to male doms as "doms" and female doms as "dommes." In this subculture, the term "dominatrix" usually refers to a domme who is a professional dominant. (She gets paid to do it.) However, I doubt there are many professional "male dominatrices" or "dominators." While there are some women who enjoy being sexually submissive, I would think that very, very few of them ever pay for the experience. Therefore, probably the term "dominator" with "professional" overtones is almost never used because such a person (as a professional) almost never exists. And those males who assume such a role in their private lives (non-professionally) with willing partners probably keep rather quiet about it.
So the term is just not on the cultural radar screen.