By the way, does anybody know when she started wearing this:
Posted on 10/17/2006 11:40:19 AM PDT by weegee
I have been in a couple of conversations today about my colleague Nick Anderson's most recent animated editorial cartoon. OK, I initiated the conversations. Sue me.
You're going to watch Nick's animation, as you should. I bow to no one in my admiration for Mr. Anderson's talent, and I love the way he brings editorial cartooning into something resembling the present. How many other editorial cartoonists would know the Black Eyed Peas from Andy Williams?
But.
You knew there'd be a but.
In this case, the but is a butt.
I am not going to discuss the politics of the cartoon, which are, as far as I'm concerned, between Nick and his bosses and their respective Makers. I was not entirely able to make a political assessment, anyway, because I was mesmerized and chagrined to see the physical depiction of Hillary Clinton in the video. In fact, the first word that sprang into my head was unchivalrous.
Her hips are depicted as huge. Enormous. Wide as the Nile.
This stunned me. Lord, I thought, just another reason I have to go off and live on an island with two pairs of shorts and the dog and the cat and a Canadian, and forget everything. It's 2006 and it's still OK to belittle and besmirch a woman under consideration for high office based on her figure?
I brought this up to a colleague of mine, who will remain nameless but not initial-free. We'll call him ED. ED told me I was being sexist -- that men are often caricatured in political cartoons. I said yeah, and maybe her face is fair game. But her hips? What society do you live in? I asked.
I didn't have a fully formed and reasoned point of view, and maybe I still don't, but I have a strong reaction. This is a society that judges a woman strongly, almost exclusively, on her sexuality. To whom is that news?
No one can possibly have lived through more of this than Hillary Clinton, who has been humiliated sexually in every possible form and fashion in the popular culture, from being called a lesbian, to being called a cold fish, to being blamed for her husband's issues. You over here in Texas? You've probably done all of the above, you personally. That she is still on her feet politically -- no matter what else you think of her -- is a tribute to an almost superhuman tenacity, for good or ill.
If -- and there's no actual "if" any more than there is with evolution -- this is a society that judges a woman sexually every single day, what is the point of making Hillary Clinton fat and ugly in a political cartoon? Is it fair? Not really, until men are assessed in exactly the same way. No one will ever judge Dick Cheney sexually, no matter how many misadventures he sends this country on. Nobody cares about that.
Isn't the junk-in-the-trunk a way of making a larger point about Hillary Clinton -- that she is somehow, by the size of her hips (which were completely fine in person, the one time I saw her), less worthwhile?
Bob Herbert has a column in The New York Times today -- you have to buy that wicked Times Select to read it -- about the dirty little half-secret of the Colorado and Pennsylvania school shooting incidents: The little girls were singled out for molestation and killing.
You're going to tell me it's a long way from some sick school shootings to a political cartoon, and I completely agree with you. But it's a weird society we live in. And it's different for girls.
As another person I discussed this issue said to me: "I'm always amused by guys who discover that misogyny is ignored on a daily basis... Walk around in our high heels for a while. "
I have a couple of spare pairs in my office, guys.
By the way, does anybody know when she started wearing this:
" It is a female medical malady of which I can't recall the name. "
Fat?
I love the look on the donkey's face at the end. Priceless.
Steatopygia.
Those knees have been used to give many a lewinski to a lewinski.
This is a cartoon? I thought it was a real life pic of Hillary.
It takes a mighty big person to defend those hips
My guess would be when Foley was ran out of town on the rails.
Out of all that was in that cartoon all this 'journalist' found to crank her up was the depiction of the HIPS? I expected something much more exaggerated after reading her rant!
MeMo is pretty ShalLow.
I tried to watch that cartoon, but that was maybe the most annoying song I've ever heard. I couldn't make it through.
"it burns! it burns!"
--I think it may be called "maturity"--
Here it is on You Tube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QJgfl8jxyw0
Ping fro home viewing
Many agree. This is totally off-center. I never went in upon Chelsie's looks through her gangle teens nor do I care about the condition of her mother's butt or thighs. Nor do I really care about yours or mine right now.These are attacks by young lib rats in most case, where jokes are made over a Vice-President's pacemaker as well.This crap has no bearing on real understanding of the devilment a clintonian can wreak upon the populace. Then again there is ferment and perhaps a finer whine.
What an absolute load of bollocks. Humiliated sexually? She's done absolutely nothing about it except reportedly screaming at Bill when her political viability might be damaged. What about a divorce? Happens all the time for transgressions much lower on the scale. What's that? Divorce is bad for political viability? Whose problem is that?
Lesbian? If the shoe fits.....let's face it, the rumors are out there and they are certainly above the 'Bush 41 had an affair' threshold.
Superhuman tenacity my Appalachian arse. She appears a fool then and now and fortunately most people can see through the sham of her marriage and definitely do not view her doped-up Xanax haze as a dignified bearing.
I was just posting that in other threads.....and have it as my tag line for awhile....
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