Great form - high hands finish, hips opened to target.
Posted on 08/23/2006 5:04:50 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
August 23, 2006 - 07:45
What does Maureen Dowd want? Her column of today is the latest evidence of a woman torn between the imperatives of modern feminism and a not-so-secret longing for more traditional domestic arrangements.
The topic of Ring-a-Ding-Bling [subscription required] is marriages in which the husband plays a decided second fiddle to the wife. You might think that Dowd-the-feminist would celebrate marriages in which women play the leading role. But, with one notable exception, she expresses little but scorn for husbands whose wives have the upper hand.
Mo's Exhibit A is the Britney Spears/Kevin Federline couple. Dowd begins by professing that "to make fun of Mr. Spears [would be] too easy — shooting tuna fish in a can, as they say." Of course by referring to Federline as "Mr. Spears" Mo has mocked him already. Then, utterly ignoring her own precept, she proceeds to ruthlessly ridicule him, describing his recent attempt at rap music as "even more deliciously atrocious than anticipated," also letting us know that "the hip-hop community reacted with amused disdain."
Though presumably not privy to the inner workings of the Spears/Federline marriage, Down dismisses K-Fed, as she calls him, as a "blissful and unself-conscious marital moocher." Dowd also writes of 'Hilary Swank sydnrome' a reference to the failed marriage of the two-time Oscar winner to Chad Lowe - minor actor and brother of Rob.
And what does it say about the state of modern feminism when Maureen Dowd helpfully passes along save-your-marriage tips from . . . a Cosmopolitan magazine editor? “He’s got to feel like he carries the weight in the relationship somehow,’’ Kate White wants us to know.
But was all of this gossipy mockery in the service of a grander electoral scheme on Dowd's part? She concludes her column by informing us that:
"Besides K-Fed, there is one other guy who seems perfectly content to play backup dancer in his superstar wife’s national tour: B-Clint. 'Now the choreography is reversed, and it is Hillary’s time to take the lead,’ Karen Tumulty writes in this week’s Time.
"Other men in that spot might struggle with emasculation issues, as Geena Davis’s husband did in 'Commander in Chief.' But somehow you know that, as First Lad, Bill would have the time of his life in the time of his wife."
Does Dowd really want to hold up Bill and Hillary as a model for the modern marriage?
I refer to myself as:
DAD. Protector of the Right. Provider of the Feast. Holder of the Purses.
I also hold my dughter's purse when she's trying on clothes.
YES!
LOL!
Mo ALWAYS does that! She uses fiction to try and back up her thoughts and ideas...
talk about too easy!
Her style of making points and backing up her thoughts are worse than my 6 yr old.....
Great form - high hands finish, hips opened to target.
Pool and a pond, Carl. The pond would be good for you.
Beautiful and a good golfer. Just the kind of woman I'm looking for.....
I can see why you like that one.
I really like her in "The Darling Buds of May" series from BBC - one of her earlier roles. "Purr-fect"
By any chance, would you be a former greenskeeper, about to become the Masters champion? ;-)
And, I don't think the heavy stuff is going to come down for a while yet, Your Eminence.
The world needs ditch-diggers too, son.
Danny, I've sent boys younger than you to the gas chamber. I didn't want to. I felt I owed it to them.
"Hey Smails, a thousand bucks says you slice!"
Big hitter, the Lama. Long.
Goonga Ga-Loonga....
Gambling is prohibited at Bushwood. And I never slice!
Twenty bucks says the Smails kid picks his nose!
You'll get nothing and like it!
I wouldn't doubt it! Lots of libs are gearing up for another X-rated White House. Have you seen this site yet?
Why is it that when hard core liberals try to be funny, they gross everyone out? If you haven't seen these tacky videos of Bill running as first lady, you'll know what I mean. Both are gross, but the second one is the worst!
That's razor sharp wit, as they say.
"She got all of that one...its...ITS IN THE HOLE!"
Mo Dowd is a nasty, mean woman.
I smell varmint poon-tang...
Hey, Llama! How's about a little bit, ya know, for the effort?
At the head of the table sits the Grandfather, to his right the Grandmother, down the table the Kids and their wives and then the kids. Then there is Mo.
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