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Girls Just Want to Have Fun
village voice ^ | November 14th, 2005 | Joy Press

Posted on 12/06/2005 11:52:37 PM PST by tbird5

Sex and the Pity: Dowd can't make up her mind, while Levy takes on pornification

MoDo is everywhere: looking sultry on the cover of New York, posing in slinky stockings and red heels inside the Times magazine, and appearing on the cover of Are Men Necessary? as a flame-haired bombshell in a clingy crimson dress and matching pumps, coolly reading a hardcover on the subway as the men around her stare. OK, the last one is a pulp-noir illustration, but it clearly alludes to Maureen Dowd's persona.

I can't imagine Thomas Friedman lending himself to such treatment, but Dowd has conjured a public image that blends Lauren Bacall and Dorothy Parker. Our most influential female newspaper columnist, Dowd comes off like a brainy vamp who cuts power brokers down to size with serrated satire. So many women were disappointed by the Times magazine excerpt from her new book, in which this media provocateur coyly dispensed bedraggled platitudes about the war of the sexes.

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To: Caipirabob
While there are still many traditional conservative women in America who still value God and family, the "fluff" in between finding them can be discouraging. Yet they are out there.

I looked 14 years after my divorce – but I found a good one. It just takes some time.
21 posted on 12/07/2005 3:48:15 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: Lewite
I believe she is from the DC area. Oddly enough MoDo is the nickname for the local donut shop, Montgomery Donuts.
22 posted on 12/07/2005 3:58:02 AM PST by Boiler Plate
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised
"She's like Polly Toynbee: she doesn't write so much as menstruates through her pen."

OUCH!! That's going to leave a mark!

23 posted on 12/07/2005 4:05:52 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: tbird5

24 posted on 12/07/2005 4:08:11 AM PST by Leisler (HEY LEFTY! FREED TIBET YET?)
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To: tbird5

If Mz MODO was sexy, she'd be selling someting on MSM. She couldn't sell steak to blind dogs.


25 posted on 12/07/2005 4:09:25 AM PST by Leisler (HEY LEFTY! FREED TIBET YET?)
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised

LOL!!!!!!!


26 posted on 12/07/2005 4:16:07 AM PST by yer gonna put yer eye out (Will quip for food...)
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To: Leisler
"She couldn't sell steak to blind dogs."

Another side-splitter!!!!
27 posted on 12/07/2005 4:19:31 AM PST by yer gonna put yer eye out (Will quip for food...)
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To: Leisler

THANK YOU Leisler. Some of us are only looking for one thing when we click on these MoDo threads ... :O)


28 posted on 12/07/2005 4:22:09 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: tbird5

Poor MoDo...she's painted herself into a corner, and the only option she has left is to whine about the paint color she choose.


29 posted on 12/07/2005 4:30:35 AM PST by Clioman
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To: clee1
MoDo desperately needs a Briggs and Stratton-driven, self-operated marital aid.

Don't be such a sexist pig!

She just needs a new car:


30 posted on 12/07/2005 4:35:19 AM PST by Jim Noble (Non, je ne regrette rien)
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To: OldArmy52

Me too. City girl though


31 posted on 12/07/2005 4:37:00 AM PST by Paisan
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To: tbird5

And I still say:

Only thing ole MoDowdy needs is a good, old fashioned, over the knee spanking. Would set her straight, yessiree.


32 posted on 12/07/2005 5:22:27 AM PST by Al Gator (Remember to pillage BEFORE you burn!)
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To: tbird5

...but Dowd has conjured a public image that blends Lauren Bacall and Dorothy Parker....

More like a mix of the Wicked witches of East and West.

But, I only came by for the Zeta Jones pic.


33 posted on 12/07/2005 7:09:34 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com ( Tranzis.)
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To: ConservativeChinese

got 2 sons. smart, healthy and better looking by far that I ever was.

Been twice only to China, not being a one for travel that can be avoided.

But I will say that by far, the best looking Chinese, men & women, were those in Hong Kong that were a Chinese/European blood mix.

Very healthy, good looking mixture.


34 posted on 12/07/2005 4:16:49 PM PST by OldArmy52
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