Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

That's the way the woman looks. There really isn't much to work with. But why does it matter so much to you, especially when you just admitted you have no complaints about her job performance?*

TM

*And I should just let this whole thing go as a reward to you for admitting that at all, but what can you do?

I like it. for the Giants' run, I needed one like this:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

That's the way the woman looks. There really isn't much to work with. But why does it matter so much to you, especially when you just admitted you have no complaints about her job performance?

Amanda Hess (original has links):

In the Washington Post, clothes make the woman

Last week, Women's Research and Education Institute senior scholar Bernice Sandler, dressed casually in jeans and a white shirt, wrote a letter to the Washington Post questioning the paper's recent focus on the attire of its female subjects. Sandler ticked off several recent Post stories that define women by the clothes they wear—then helpfully submitted the details of her own outfit to aid the Post in objectifying her. ("If anyone cares, this writer is wearing jeans and a white shirt," she wrote).

Below, five rules for women gleaned from the Post's gender-based sartorial obsession:

1. A woman's stylish geometric-patterend tunic is as important as her career: "Bani, 26, who works for a nonprofit organization and was dressed Thursday evening in a stylish geometric-patterned tunic, started the group two years ago using a Meetup Web page as an alternative to the stodgier, older mom groups across Loudoun County."

2. The ratio of a woman's arm-to-skirt length is the only notable detail about her: "Two years ago, students launched another men's group, the Capitol G's. Then there are the Saxatones and two other coed groups, The Phantoms, who have opened for the Black Eyed Peas, and Superfood. The sing mostly contemporary songs. A women's group, the GraceNotes, has been around for 30 years and is known for wearing short skirts that sometimes barely pass the fingertip test."

As GranceNotes member Laura Umbrecht wrote in a letter to the Post: "[Jenna] Johnson chose to relay to her readers this solitary detail about my all-female group at Georgetown University . . . Women's groups at Georgetown recognize the tendency for viewers to overly sexualize our appearance or to dwell on the gender composition of our group rather than our real contributions, whether we are singing a cappella or participating in any other extracurricular activity. The article trivialized our group by focusing on how we look rather than who we are and in doing so communicated the message that women's groups are hardly worth noting on their merits alone."

3. Womb before brain: "As moms and legal minds, first ladies Kendel Ehrlich and Katie O'Malley have much in common. Yet the campaign divide is wide."

4. Wearing a T-shirt and jeans and owning a purse is newsworthy enough to make it in the lede: "Kendel Ehrlich is perched high on a swivel chair in the dimly lit radio studio at WBAL, wearing Levis and a pink T-shirt that displays her husband's campaign logo. The black leather purse below her feet is plastered with a campaign bumper sticker." Then she said some stuff!

5. Even judge's robes are sensual, when removed by a woman: "A few miles away in downtown Baltimore the previous week, Katie O'Malley has slipped off her black judicial robe in the chambers of the Eastside District Court Building to headline a symposium on domestic violence."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Amanda Hess (original has links):

if you're proposing a "stop posts that boil women down to sex objects" rule I'll get on board, but you might want to run that by thurgreed and coltrane first.

cuz if we can foucs on one woman's looks where do you draw the line for other women?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Change you can believe in:

With stories about President Bush’s new memoir dominating the headlines this week, Financial Times Westminster correspondent Alex Barker reports on his “favourite Bush anecdote,” which he writes, “for various reasons we couldn’t publish at the time. Some of the witnesses still dine out on it“:

Barker said that British officials looked “dumbfounded” and that Brown’s “poker face gave way to a flash of astonishment.”

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Change you can believe in:

You are fucking President - you don't "have" to endorse anyone.

I am reminded of the scene in "Harold and Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay" where they get stoned with W and he finally tells off Dad, except for the moviemakers apparently gave W more credit that he was due.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Change you can believe in:

Stories about Bush's memoir "dominating" the media? Where? Crawford? I know more than I'll ever need to about that asshole. I've treated the links to interviews with him the way everyone should: like banner ads.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

You are fucking President - you don't "have" to endorse anyone.

a former president has responsibilities. one is to respect the office and to not use it to wreck the next guy. LBJ, Nixon, Ford , Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush 2 all understood/understand that. to do otherwise is essentially treason.

W not endorsing McCain would be a huge issue and would have gone a long way is killing McCain campaign. W endorsing him was a non-issue.

A president has to do way more than the rest of us. or at least one who loves the country does.

why do you think the brit knew to stfu until after the election?

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

why do you think the brit knew to stfu until after the election?

Because he was afraid of Cheney?

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

That's the way the woman looks. There really isn't much to work with. But why does it matter so much to you, especially when you just admitted you have no complaints about her job performance?*

TM

*And I should just let this whole thing go as a reward to you for admitting that at all, but what can you do?

Have you ever seen a fashion magazine, Vogue, Elle, GQ, W etc etc? Seen a makeover show? You're kidding right? She was born with ill fitting ill draped clothes that accentuate some of her worst physical features, and she's wearing an unflattering colour and you don't think that there is anything that she can do? Watch a few hundred episodes of "What Not to Wear" and get back to me.

And I doing this out of love for her. It's construction criticism (mean shit would have been mentioning her double wide arse and hips. I don't do that anymoure. I've evolved).

And as for job performance, that's not enough. I want aesthetically pleasing as well. Or at least not fashion phreaky.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

everything besides is organic. what else can she change if she looked in a mirror?

Well, Tim Gunn, I think she could do better with both fit and proportion.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

Have you ever seen a fashion magazine, Vogue, Elle, GQ, W etc etc? Seen a makeover show? You're kidding right? She was born with ill fitting ill draped clothes that accentuate some of her worst physical features, and she's wearing an unflattering colour and you don't think that there is anything that she can do? Watch a few hundred episodes of "What Not to Wear" and get back to me.

Yeah. I'll get right on that.

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

Have you ever seen a fashion magazine, Vogue, Elle, GQ, W etc etc? Seen a makeover show? You're kidding right? She was born with ill fitting ill draped clothes that accentuate some of her worst physical features, and she's wearing an unflattering colour and you don't think that there is anything that she can do? Watch a few hundred episodes of "What Not to Wear" and get back to me.

And I doing this out of love for her. It's construction criticism (mean shit would have been mentioning her double wide arse and hips. I don't do that anymoure. I've evolved).

And as for job performance, that's not enough. I want aesthetically pleasing as well. Or at least not fashion phreaky.

We all have bad fashion days, especially when pulling clothes out of suitcases while traveling all over the world.

It could be worse. She could NOT have the clothes on.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

We all have bad fashion days, especially when pulling clothes out of suitcases while traveling all over the world.

It could be worse. She could NOT have the clothes on.

with Linoln out she'd actually be pretty hot for a Dem Senator if she were still there now- And compared to say clinton cabinet members she is smoking.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

with Linoln out she'd actually be pretty hot for a Dem Senator if she were still there now- And compared to say clinton cabinet members she is smoking.

Any other evidence Hil had veto rights on Bill's cabinet picks?

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Adder

Well, Tim Gunn, I think she could do better with both fit and proportion.

I don't normally agree with Adder, but, in this case, I will make an exception.....



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