This has to be the most politically incorrect theory I have ever seen


"Look for the babes, and that's where the social action is, that's where the success will be."

I'm not sure whether to laugh out loud or just pretend it doesn't exist. The scary thing is he may just be right.
WILLisms.com has a piece titled More On The Babe Theory of Political Movements.

I kid you not.

He lifts the idea from one of my favorite authors, P.J. O'Rourke and gives him full credit.

Here's the paragraph he quotes from O'Rourke's Parliment of Whores.

"Best of all, there were hardly any beautiful women at the [Housing Now!] rally. I saw a journalist friend of mine in the Mall, and he and I purused this line of inquiry as assiduously as our happy private lives allow. Practically every female at the march was a bowser. "We're not being sexist here," my friend insisted. "It's not that looks matter per se. It's just that beautiful women are always on the cutting edge of social trends. Remember how many beautiful women were in the anti-war movement twenty years ago? In the yoga classes fifteen years ago? At the discos ten years ago? On Wall Street five years ago? Where the beautiful women are is where the country is headed," said my friend. "And this," he looked around him, "isn't it."

I'm shaking my head, but he may be on to something. He even provides photographic evidence.

These are the paragraphs that kept me from dismissing the whole thing out of hand.

The Babely-Come-Lately Sub-Theorem.

An alternate view of the Babe Theory holds that attractive women are drawn more to successful political movements than to fringe movements. In other words, if the ideas behind a political movement has value, if the fight has a noble purpose, if it has worth, it will attract lovely young ladies, who then become the face of the movement. Women (babes), then, are discerning consumers of political movements, and when there is a worthwhile one, they buy into it whole-heartedly. Under this view of the Babe Theory, sexy women just happen to be found at successful demonstrations; the sexy women are not actually responsible for the success of the movement, babes at political rallies are but a symptom of success, an effective heuristic for prognosticating, an augury of what is to come.

The Babe Prerequisite Corollary.

Another view of the Babe Theory holds that a society will not be ready for democratic reforms if it does not have babes. Babes, you see, are a sign of a certain minimal level of affluence. In international relations circles, there is a belief that a society must have a certain level of wealth before it can truly become free and democratic. Folks like Fareed Zakaria argue that a democracy is nothing special, and perhaps even inimical to the world, if it is "illiberal." Zakaria uses wealth as a short-cut for determining whether a nation is ready for true democracy.

So, if there are babes, it means the country is ready for democracy, because babes are a sign of wealth and progress.

So before I get dismissed as a sexist pig, I do think that part may be right.

Free societies honor their women.

Oddly enough, only last week I was thinking that one of the things that libertarians really needed was some highly visible "beautiful people."

— NeoWayland

Posted: Wed - December 28, 2005 at 04:45 AM  Tag


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