Hey Snugs. Thanks for the response.
I still disagree that Rush was being satirical but I really appreciate your comment that you don't like the term babe and chick. NEITHER DO I AND NEITHER DO MOST WOMEN!
And go to hell I sure am showing my prior feminist leanings so if nothing else, know that I'm not lying. I hate to be treated like a sex object, yeah, I'll use the term. I really hate it when a male smirks and right out loud says "hey, we get an erection and lose it all" and even worse, "WE ARE GUYS AND IT IS OUR RIGHT". I hate that.
Yeah, I used to be a woman's libber of the highest order and I'd like to think my granddaughter could grow up in a world where she's not treated like a "thing" with a vagina. Women do not like this and we are women, we are too often afraid to say so.
And don't go thinking I never had my day in the sunlight of the lustful men. I was an absolutely BEAUTIFUL young woman, gorgeous, yes I was. I still am a happening middle-aged lady, frankly. I had plenty of guys...they were like a bus...you missed one, another one came right along. I saw a pic of you too, Snugs. That bus would stop at your stop.
Point is, it's not UGLY women who don't like to be treated as objects. If I could somehow take a survey I'd dare say that it's mostly ATTRACTIVE women who take umbrage at being talked to and treated like sexual objects.
Damn if you people didn't turn me back into a liberal. But I entertained some. And I bet Rush addresses the issue next week.
"If I could somehow take a survey I'd dare say that it's mostly ATTRACTIVE women who take umbrage at being talked to and treated like sexual objects." Well, after decades of working with and around attractive AND educated and/or intelligent women I can say without reservation that attractive, intelligent women who are successful in life know to offer no hint of unbrage because it just might reduce their power in one area or another and they are all about retaining the power and control they know darn well they have over men who haven't clue enough to grow up. Rush meant the val was a babe to his little head ... proving once again that Rush is human and at some level still a little boy. Ignore it.
If what Rush means by "babe" is someone whose figure is not very sexy, has rather poor bone-structure, and whose chief claim to "babe-dom" is very obviously bleached, long blond hair and a rather stupid, vacant look in her eyes, then I am not offended by the term. I was rather surprised when he said he'd be throwing his hat in the ring - but then there's no accounting for tastes.