I have a daughter. One day she will grow up and start
dating, and if she’s hetero that means she’s going to date dudes, and some of
those dudes will be “shitty dudes.”
You know, the indecisive kind who won’t commit? This, says Ross Douthat
over at the New York Times, is reason
enough for me to start voting ‘publican, to long for the days when you still had
to buy the cow to get that sweet sweet unpasteurized raw Brooklyn milk.
It is a weird, convoluted piece
because it’s a weird, convoluted argument. Douthat cites a study
claiming that having daughters makes parents more likely to be Republican,
which contradicts an earlier study saying the
opposite. He is, naturally, tickled. And as the parent of a daughter and
apparently someone who still on occasion hangs out with single people, he has a
theory as to why. You see, there’s this fictional character named Nate in a recent
book he read — Adelle Waldman’s The Love
Affairs of Nathaniel P. — who is a nice enough guy
(“sensitive,” “idealistic”), but who happens to cause his
female friends/flings a great deal of emotional havoc in their Brooklyn creative scene, because he just wants the
sex and not the marriage, and the very fact that this fictional guy exists (as
a stand-in for ostensibly real ones) is enough of a terror to make parents of
daughters start thinking conservatively.
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