For the last-ever Crappy Hour I’ll do, Megan Carpentier and I wonder about the effects on Afghan women of the CIA’s Viagra distribution program. Unapologetically discomforting and, I daresay, rigorous. Everything this feature ought to be and, I darehope, an argument for why it should not be cancelled.
SPENCER: … Are we in a situation where the expected consequence of the CIA Viagra program is marital rape? Should everyone who isn’t Dennis Prager find this problematic?
MEGAN: Well, are we in a situation where we would deny that such is a possibility? I don’t think we make good policy by ignoring the consequences, nor am I saying that giving the dudes Viagra is not preferable to giving them, say, weapons. But is it possible that we’re providing them with the means to force themselves on their wives (who likely had no choice in being their wives) that nature has otherwise denied them? Yes.
A discussion of marital rape and foreign policy is not the place to get sentimental, but I really do wish that Crappy Hour wasn’t getting canceled. If wishes were horses and all that. But even accepting that it’s ending next week, I can honestly say that a morning internet feature has very unexpectedly yielded me one of my closest friends, so you can’t tell me that it wasn’t worthwhile.
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I think you miss the point. The viagra distribution program is designed to get the Afghanis to be less centered on poppy growth and spend more time with the flocks.
How long does it take to perform sexual intercourse? Five Minutes? Plus, the work can be done in the daylight whilst intercourse can be done at leisure hours. Little to no interuption in Poppy production.
Sara Chayes is in afghanistan trying to help Afghanis get away from poppy growth. SHE’d be a great book salon guest for her book “The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban.”
Adding in the time for drinks and repartee, sometimes ten.
Why is Crappy Hour ending? It was the best part of Jezebel. No, maybe Megan is.
Crappy Hour is ending because my hours have been cut to part-time, so I’ll be writing less every day — and my bosses want more posts in that 4 hours than I usually crank out between 8 and noon since Crappy Hour takes 2 hours to write. But, thanks.
Megan, I’m sorry to hear that.