Ew is right.

Conservatives are pedophiles and Jennifer Annistan has decrepit boobs. Wha?
Just to add to Broadsheet’stake on the “expiration date” issue found on Amazon this is an elaboration on what that is exactly, just in case were wondering…
Anyone who was wondering when that expiration date kicks can now turn to National Review’s The Corner for an answer, where John Derbyshire helpfully sets us all clear on the conservative vision of human nature and female attractiveness:
Conservatives, as I recall, are the ones who believe that “human nature has no history.” It follows that we are at ease with the fact that the human female is visually attractive to the human male at, or shortly after, puberty, and for only a few brief years thereafter.
Now, human puberty in the female of the species begins at around age 9, and continues to roughly age 16, according to the online medical encyclopedia maintained by the National Institutes of Health. Which means the only civilized response to Derbyshire’s assertion that pubescent and post-pubescent girls are the “only” attractive female population ought to be a gigantic “Ew.”
Just so you don’t think I’m quoting Derbyshire out of context, here he is in his latest National Review column, talking about why he’s not interested in seeing Jennifer Aniston’s partially exposed breast on the latest cover of GQ:
Did I buy, or browse, a copy of the November 17 GQ, in order to get a look at Jennifer Aniston’s bristols?** No, I didn’t. While I have no doubt that Ms. Aniston is a paragon of charm, wit, and intelligence, she is also 36 years old. Even with the strenuous body-hardening exercise routines now compulsory for movie stars, at age 36 the forces of nature have won out over the view-worthiness of the unsupported female bust.
It is, in fact, a sad truth about human life that beyond our salad days, very few of us are interesting to look at in the buff. Added to that sadness is the very unfair truth that a woman’s salad days are shorter than a man’s — really, in this precise context, only from about 15 to 20.
There is a word for men who fetishize the beauty of teenage and pubescent girls, and it is not a very nice one. Indeed, NRO’s editors would be well-advised — unless they think the conservative movement should promote, as Derbyshire does, the idea that 15-year-old girls are at peak sexual attractiveness — to tone down the Derb the next time he wants to make a sweeping statement about human nature based on his own barely legal visual preferences.
–Garance Franke-Ruta

via American Prospect online.

Just another reason to hate the National Review. It is incredible the amount of shit (despite all the *excellent* feminist critiques)that has come out around Dowd. Just plain doo doo.
Thank you Kris for the article.