Pick Up a Paper
In tomorrow's City Paper, you'll find:
- Franklin Schneider (you may remember him from such stories as "The Drone Ranger" and our tourist-crap review) waxing about his singularly unfulfilling life on D.C.'s trendster-singles circuit. (There is this one time in Seattle, though, where he gets a gun pulled on him.)
- Arthur Delaney on the fate of police chief Charles Ramsey under the Fenty regime.
- In Loose Lips: James Jones on Marion Barry’s sabotage of fellow Ward 8er William Lockridge, plus a rundown of the school-board-prez candidates and LL's general election endorsements.
- In Show & Tell: Jessica Gould on the bouncer's best friend: the flashlight.
- In Cheap Seats: You've heard about the Sports Illustrated cover jinx. Dave McKenna posits the curse of Eastern Motors.
- In Young & Hungry: Tim Carman on the best and worst of comfort food in D.C.
- Plus film (Tricia on Borat ,Jenkins on Babel), lots of music, theater, art (Jeffry Cudlin on John Constable), and more
11:26 pm
James Jones hates Marion Barry!
4:13 pm
Wow. Franklin Schneider really hates women doesn't he? I mean, he really hates them.
He starts by implying he ended up being unemployed and living in a basement due to a breakup with a hyperbolically emasculating ex.
The emasculation shown when he's attracted to an ugly woman on the train. Ah yes, that's obviously the exes fault. I like how he implies every single woman he beds is utterly hot, even if he has contempt for them.
Of course, I doubt even half this story is true.
Here's a tip Franklin - if you are so fragile and rage-filled a breakup leaves you unemployed, living in squalor and despising 99% of all women you've got a bigger problem. The breakup wasn't the cause, but a result of your deeper failures as a human.
Franklin tries to mitigate his relentless misogyny (equating sex with a woman having her period with degredation) with some self-loathing, but it's obviously a cover. The essay is a self-regarding, almost boastful display of bitterness (emphasizing how he scores a lot despite hating women).
The lowest point is when Franklin gets mad because a hot woman wants to talk before sex. Did it occur to Franklin that she something important yet awkward to say? Like, "I want sex, but put on a condom." or "My back still hurts, can we try this one position?" No. He feels entitled to immediate screwing without paying attention to the human behind the sexy hole, so he has a petulant temper tantrum, and probably blows a sure thing. I've never been so happy to read of someone's failure and frustration. Plus his assumption the woman wants it and is only delaying to tease are things rapists say.
Worse than Franklin is City Paper for publishing this dreck. It's pure hateful sensationalism and will only provoke irritation from normal people and affirmation from all the woman hating saps.
The only good part is maybe Franklin will never get laid again.