# Men - Would You Date Jenny McCarthy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318 "2010-04-07T20:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318/141 "2010-04-12T21:20:41Z")
To all those who were defending her as simply having some nutty beliefs, just as anyone else might have their own, for me it’s her activism that makes the difference. In general I’m pretty quickly turned off by girls too deeply into woo of any kind, unless I feel like I can actually educate them. (I’m kinda workin’ on a 9/11 truther at the moment 😉 ). But with JM, it’s not just that she has some wacky beliefs like astrology, or energy healing, or something, AND it’s not even that she’s an anti-vaxxer. It’s that she’s THE anti-vaxxer. She is the face of the movement to a large extent. She’s powerful, and loud, and unrelenting. And she is repeatedly given a powerful mouthpiece by people like Oprah and Larry King. She’s doing very serious harm, and no matter how much logic and reason and science you try to shove in her face, her influence seems to continue to grow. When my libido is calling, I can certainly enjoy a night in the sack with a cute Jesus girl, but I doubt I could be even attracted to someone if she was a congresswoman leading the anti-gay marriage charge. I don’t think I could be attracted to a person who [lectures on homeopathy in the the most mind-bogglingly scientifically illiterate way imaginable](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPlXVP8GZE) even if she looked like a playboy playmate. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318/142 "2010-04-12T22:15:07Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Why is sleeping with a Vegas prostitute less objectionable than Jenny McCarthy?😕 Sorry if my point was unclear. IF _all_ that mattered was sex with a hot body then we’d be doing that. But most of us don’t. (BTW, I am married and faithful, so my thoughts may be discounted some I guess.) Which would I personally find less objectionable? Without question the prostitute. Having sex with someone I find contemptible, like Jenny McCarthy, just to have sex with a hot body, would make me feel cheaper and dirtier than paying for sex would. Which I wouldn’t be crazy about either. I wouldn’t be in love with or have a deep connection with a prostitute, or even think that she cared about or desired me (and being desired is desirable), but at least the thought of that woman, whoever she would be, wouldn’t make me want to retch. Also I would need to be dishonest with McCarthy and pretend to not hate her; the john-hooker relationship would at least be an honest one - fake sounds of ecstasy from her notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318/143 "2010-04-13T00:07:17Z")
Speaking only for myself, it’s a more nuanced question. I have no idea how intelligent JM is, nor her education level. Having said that, my personal and professional experiences have left me with a profound distaste for mothers who think they have a halo bolted to their heads or that they’re infallible in matters of parenting and that their mothers intuition is sacred. Add to that the broader destructiveness of JM and she is off the table. A hot, good natured woman, not too bright but enthusiatic about the glad hearted fuck is a different question. Entirely different. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318/144 "2010-04-14T18:41:36Z")
> [@ghardester](#): > > No, she smokes cigarettes. I wouldn’t date any woman who smokes cigarettes, no matter who. Eh, just don’t kiss her on the [del]lips[/del] mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318/145 "2010-04-15T02:44:29Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Serious question: are they? Is that all men care about? Is it really true that men will fuck someone just because they’re hot even if they’re dumb? > > As a woman I find that nearly incomprehensible. Clearly, you speaketh not for all women. Well the hot homeopath video is taking too long to load, so I’m heading home. I suspect however that one of this woman’s favorite songs is The Who’s “You Better You Bet”: _I don’t care how much you love me A little is alright_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318/146 "2010-04-15T03:01:28Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > To all those who were defending her as simply having some nutty beliefs, just as anyone else might have their own, for me it’s her activism that makes the difference. > > In general I’m pretty quickly turned off by girls too deeply into woo of any kind, unless I feel like I can actually educate them. (I’m kinda workin’ on a 9/11 truther at the moment 😉 ). > > But with JM, it’s not just that she has some wacky beliefs like astrology, or energy healing, or something, AND it’s not even that she’s an anti-vaxxer. It’s that she’s THE anti-vaxxer. She is the face of the movement to a large extent. She’s powerful, and loud, and unrelenting. And she is repeatedly given a powerful mouthpiece by people like Oprah and Larry King. She’s doing very serious harm, and no matter how much logic and reason and science you try to shove in her face, her influence seems to continue to grow. > > When my libido is calling, I can certainly enjoy a night in the sack with a cute Jesus girl, but I doubt I could be even attracted to someone if she was a congresswoman leading the anti-gay marriage charge. > > I don’t think I could be attracted to a person who [lectures on homeopathy in the the most mind-bogglingly scientifically illiterate way imaginable](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPlXVP8GZE) even if she looked like a playboy playmate. Yeah that summarizes it for me. > [@Jackmannii](#): > > Clearly, you speaketh not for all women. > > Well the hot homeopath video is taking too long to load, so I’m heading home. > > I suspect however that one of this woman’s favorite songs is The Who’s “You Better You Bet”: > > _I don’t care how much you love me > A little is alright_ > > 😃 This is true. I cannot claim to speak for all women. But I think more men than women jump on the fuck someone just because they’re hot bandwagon. At least in my general experience. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318/147 "2010-04-15T09:59:57Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > I don’t think I could be attracted to a person who [lectures on homeopathy in the the most mind-bogglingly scientifically illiterate way imaginable](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPlXVP8GZE) even if she looked like a playboy playmate. What are you, some kind of homeophobe? ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318/148 "2010-04-15T10:53:52Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > What are you, some kind of homeophobe? Well there we go, slinging accusations of bigotry, just because I don’t particularly care for people flaunting their magic water in my face right in front of my actual illness. I’m not against it or anything, I just find it natural. > [@Jackmannii](#): > > Well the hot homeopath video is taking too long to load, so I’m heading home. Incidentally, I didn’t mean to imply that the chick in the video _does_ actually look like a playboy playmate. But it’s worth watching anyway for laughs. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318/149 "2010-04-19T13:26:25Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > You can if you’re John Asher. He’s Jenny McCarthy’s ex-husband and he’s now dating Jennifer Love Hewitt. oh. nm. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-date-jenny-mccarthy/535318.md?page=7)