Vladimir Zhirinovsky (doesn't he look like fun?)
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Most people here are well aware of Russia's draconian crackdown on her LGBT citizens and the human rights abuses that are now a fact of everyday life for them. Our own Dave in Northridge has been tirelessly writing about the regressive anti-gay laws and rampant homophobia they have given rise to.
Now Russia's number 2 person in Parliament, vice-chairman Vladimir Zhirinovsky, apparently wants to crack down on all of that heterosexual hanky panky as well. Yesterday, Ria Novosti reported that Zhirinovsky totally wants the Russian populace to limit making the beast with two backs to a few paltry times a year.
"Starting this year we are introducing norms for sexual activity: once a quarter,” said Zhirinovsky, who said he didn’t drink, smoke or eat meat during the holidays.
“Under the influence of pornography, porn cassettes and various frivolous films like that, the young generation has internalized a norm of the more the better,” said Zhirinovsky, who founded the virulently nationalist LDPR party in 1991. “Well, the less the better. And only when there is mutual affection. Here’s the standard: once a quarter, three or four times a year is enough.”
Well bless his heart. Something tells me that he isn't getting his so therefore all the little people shouldn't be getting theirs either. He apparently doesn't even want to give them the benefit of some good potato liquor to get them through the long dry spells. Just soberly go to your separate bedrooms and whimper softly to yourself until the yearning stops.
The Russian people seem to be okay with telling LGBT people that they are to under no circumstances enjoy their sexuality. Now that some thuggish megalomaniac is advocating that even the straight people need to cut out all that sex-having, it will be interesting to watch how the rabble takes to this call for an intrusion into their own bedrooms. I can predict with fair certainty that it will not be a popular notion.
Of course this suggestion makes Zhirinovsky look like a complete jackass and his party is apparently of sound enough mind to take notice and do some damage control. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia deputy Sergei Ivanov immediately tried to downplay Zhirinovsky's idiotic remarks by asserting that this is all just a big joke to give Russia's "bored journalists" something to wag their tongues about.
“What is a normal person to make of this? What do you think, that Vladimir (Zhirinovsky) is so stupid as to tell a deputy, a member of the party or a regular citizen how much time they should engage with the opposite sex?”
That might fly as an excuse for somebody else, but we are talking about Vladimir Zhirinovsky here. A known nut, he has advocated burying nuclear waste along Russia's border with the Baltic countries in order to intentionally inflict radiation poisoning on his neighbors. He suggested that the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor was caused by America testing weapons over Russian airspace. He loves him some Pat Buchanan because they both apparently share a deeply racist and misogynistic world view in which he hates everyone from women, to the Turks, to the Chinese, to the Japanese to Black people. He saves his most rabid hatred for Jews though, in spite of learning rather late in life that his own father is of Jewish descent.
Oh, and did I mention that he has suggested using nuclear weapons in Chechnya and in the Atlantic Ocean near Britain in order to flood the country? So yeah, it's not much of a stretch to think he would tell a room full of the press that he would like people to stop having all that sex please and be totally sincere about it.
Just to drive home the fact that this man just isn't right, I leave you with this video from his unsuccessful run for the Russian presidency wherein he beats the hell out of his donkey while explaining that the poor "mangy" beast symbolized a stuck Russia that only he could get moving again. Apparently by beating the hell out of it while telling it to stop with all that sexy-time.
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