Attacked for their looks

Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | July 27, 2005 | Cheri Pierson Yecke

[Restorer]

Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.

[Senator Goldwater]

Let's no forget the abominable skewering of Katherine Harris by the Washington Post's "Style" section reporter Robin Ghivan back in 2000, all because she did her job.

[saveliberty]

Good article.

We can see that one party is focused more on form than substance.

We knew that the party of diversity does not extend to diversity of thought. We now know that it does not extend to diversity of appearance. Not really.

[IronJack]

Well, let's not be TOO self-righteous here. How many of US have slammed Hillary Clinton for the extra helping of butt she has? Or Helen Thomas for looking like a mistake at the gene-splicing lab? And don't even get started on Bella Abzug or Betty Friedan. Then there's everybody's favorite sack of guts, Ted Kennedy.

If they're fair game, so are we.

[rhema]

Where are the feminists? Their silence speaks volumes about their convictions and partisan leanings. After all, it is mainly conservative women who have been the victims of this sort of media slashing. Sad to say, with few exceptions, the circling vultures are left-leaning women.

. . .whom you'll never find criticizing the appearance of any pro-abort sister, even a Republican.

[Allegra]

skewering of Katherine Harris by the Washington Post's "Style" section reporter Robin Ghivan back in 2000, all because she did her job.

And because of the party with which she was affiliated. ;-)

[Allegra]

How many of US have slammed Hillary Clinton for the extra helping of butt she has? Or Helen Thomas for looking like a mistake at the gene-splicing lab? And don't even get started on Bella Abzug or Betty Friedan. Then there's everybody's favorite sack of guts, Ted Kennedy.

Well, yes, we FReepers do that (and I'm guilty as charged), but how many times do you see the media commenting on their looks?

[SkyPilot]

Ah yes--the "enlightened" left.

Does anyone remember how this woman was attacked (and still is to this day?)

Look at this garbage.

[rhema]

Well, let's not be TOO self-righteous here. How many of US have slammed Hillary Clinton for the extra helping of butt she has? Or Helen Thomas for looking like a mistake at the gene-splicing lab? And don't even get started on Bella Abzug or Betty Friedan. Then there's everybody's favorite sack of guts, Ted Kennedy.

True, but our comments are for the most part the equivalent of email exchanges. How many conservatives have launched appearance-denigrating salvos in syndicated columns or on national news broadcasts?

[capydick]

And here is Melissa today:

[BibChr]

Great essay.

Dan

[dsc]

"Does anyone remember how this woman was attacked (and still is to this day?)"

I sent her an e-mail during the attempted election by recount, and got a very nice reply.

I expect leftist swine to act like swine; what upsets me is the GOP's failure to support her properly.

If it hadn't been for her, and her alone, Comrade Gorsky Gorovich would be premier of the Supreme Soviet of North America today. She stood like a stone wall and stopped it from happening. And I don't think she's received anywhere near the payback she deserves.

And that's from somebody who objects to women in public life on principle.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Melissa, a quiet and gentle girl who was the smartest in the class, was described as "a nerd,"ugly" and "weird." Her hair, her clothes, her looks were brutally criticized -- but not her demeanor or her academic skill. After all, there was nothing to criticize there.

Kids sometimes like to be plain mean. If they can get the nerds to cry, they feel they have really scored something.

[AliVeritas]

The left/MSM disgust me.

[Dark Skies]

Kids sometimes like to be plain mean. If they can get the nerds to cry, they feel they have really scored something.

The positive lesson in this for kids and adults is "take your own counsel and live your life your own way. If you need the approval of others to be happy, chances are you'll never be happy."

[HiTech RedNeck]

The whole idea of a pubskewl is unnatural. Home schooling, where the participants are all family, is the Thing.

[AliVeritas]

If they didn't stand up while Schiavo was publicly starved by her slimebag husband, what makes you think they'll stand up for this.

Where have they been while all these young girls continue to get snatched, raped and killed by repeated sexual predators?

[PigRigger]

Just more proof that the left's way of thinking is immature and childish.....No surprise; it would take a child's reasoning to accept some of the things they embrace as truth....

Like I've always said:....The They are ignorant and naive; living in a fictitious and clouded world of their own making....