The article does contain several valid points ...
Posted on 03/27/2016 2:22:03 AM PDT by Zakeet
In this strangest of primary seasons, women exist primarily in terms of their relationships to the men they marry or question or critique. They can either be beauties or beasts or "the love of my life." They can be "crazy" or "losers," "fat pigs" or "dogs." They can be mothers and daughters. They can be the currency with which you buy voters' belief in your machismo and alpha-maleness, or they can be the sand you kick in the face of a "New York bully." In every case, whether they are assets or liabilities, they are objects. In no case are they people.
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The would-be first ladies will survive nudity, and mockery, but both of them have been diminished, stripped of their personhood and reduced to objects. They have been flattened into human baseball cards, to be rated and traded, compared and assessed, and their worth depends not on who they are or what they do, but on how good they look and how much their husbands love them.
Never mind that Melania Trump speaks multiple languages and is a successful businesswoman, or that Heidi Cruz has an M.B.A. from Harvard and had made a name for herself in the worlds of both politics and finance. What matters is that Melania is hot and that Heidi is beloved.
It's enough to make a liberal feminist, a mere spectator to the Republican debates, long for the days of Carly Fiorina. At least then the Republican primary could boast one woman who was a candidate, not just a wife and a mother, or a face and a figure - a person, instead of a thing.
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The article does contain several valid points ...
Here is the typical NYT low info writer cheap shot—
“Evidently, in Trumplandia, being scantily clad means you’re no longer qualified to be a journalist, but being naked means you’re perfectly qualified to be first lady.”
It is useful as a pulse on how desperate the left is nowadays to drag down trump and cruz (and try to build up the has-been fiorina).
hoping this saves folks some time.
It has always been so and will always be so. Men are the movers. Women are the passengers, with individual exceptions here and there, think Margaret Thatcher. This will change only if and when he academics and grant scientists succeed in making males unnecessary for procreation and then men take themselves out of business. There re signs that in the feminized world of Western Civilization this is beginning to happen. But it will still be a man’s world with a different and less female friendly set of men running it. The West has feminized itself past the point of no return. Two major societies are and will remain wholly masculine. One of them will rule the future or they will take turns as they push against each other across the ruins of the West.
It maybe something different SteveH...
Think the book "Queen Bees & Wanna-Bees". My guess is women will not vote for Trump not because he is a sexist pig, but because on a scale of 1 to 10 of smoking hotness Melania is a 12.5. They can't stand that, ergo the expression "oh I hate her". Cattiness and Jealousy will rule the day...
The eyes have it, they are the mirrors to the soul. Not liking cruz’s wifes they look a wierd
If Trump wins at least we’ll finally have an attractive First Lady. Better Melania than Bill.
umm... yikes... i need to read more books, thanks...
Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Bees_and_Wannabes
Kinda looks like my ex-daughter-in law.
“Pain meds”?
Indeed. Have you read "Odd Girl Out?" If you ignore the author's excuses for "why," it's a fantastic guide for "what."
No, I haven’t thanks for the tip...
From the title I was worried Hillary is changing her strategy after losing 3 states to Bernie yesterday. I’ll promise to stop criticizing Hillary’s outfits if she promises to leave them on.
As feminism made possible husband finding for ugly women, so too did it make possible jobs for feminism infected writers.
I’m pretty sure she had chin surgery.
Trump knows very well his female negatives are to high.. Look for him to choose a VP according..
Ok, who is your pick Yankee Magic?
“They can either be beauties or beasts or “the love of my life.” They can be “crazy” or “losers,” “fat pigs” or “dogs.” They can be mothers and daughters.”
That’s just a fact of life.
“whether they are assets or liabilities, they are objects”
Once again, that’s just a fact of life.
“They have been flattened into human baseball cards, to be rated and traded, compared and assessed, and their worth depends not on who they are or what they do, but on how good they look and how much their husbands love them.”
The media does that all on it’s own, especially in advertising.
This article is stupid in it’s attempt to say women are treated
this way only in elections. They are treated that way all the
time. That’s just the way it is.
Or he will go for a male with great female numbers
Is this the same Jennifer Weiner that wrote “Good in Bed”?
“They can either be beauties or beasts or “the love of my life.” They can be “crazy” or “losers,” “fat pigs” or “dogs.” They can be mothers and daughters.”.........
Leaving out the “beauties” and the “love of my life”, sounds like a pretty good description of Hitlary to me.
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