all hat and no cattle

[larvatus]

Anna had visited Texas many times before in her life, but until now she had never gone there alone. Her visits had always been with Ed, keeping him company on business trips; and during those trips she had often spoken about the Texans in general and about how difficult it was to like them. One could ignore their coarseness and their vulgarity. It

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[anonymous]

Moral: It's not OK to be anti-Texan. It is OK to be anti-gay and misogynistic.

Second moral: nothing's inconsistent if you think like a Texan.

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[larvatus]

As regards being anti-gay, you’ll be happy to take in my rendering of the foregoing Russian proverb: an anonymous poster is worse than a paederast.
    Concerning misogyny, thanks for inspiring this metagraph to Juvenal:
nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem                         
mouerit. accusat Manilia, si rea non est.                         
conponunt ipsae per se formantque libellos,                         
principium atque locos Celso dictare paratae.                         
—Satura 6, 242-245                         
    The Bone of Contention

Each case before our courts arose
From woman’s guile, for woman’s gain.
If not accusing, she’ll oppose
In matters lofty and mundane.

Instead of minding pans and pots,
She aims her lawyers at our friends;
She twists their briefs and casts all lots
From rudiments to bitter ends.

Perhaps you can shed some light on its applicability to the matter at hand.
    Lastly, thank you very little for confirming Fred Rexer’s thesis, that turning the insinuations made against Jews in Nazi propaganda films