Posted on 09/24/2008 7:32:44 PM PDT by markomalley
Way back in May, when I was thinking about Sarah Palin as a possible running mate for McCain, I wondered about how the electorate, the media, etc., would respond to A) a woman on the Republican ticket, B) a relatively young woman (by politician standards) on the ticket and C) a (let's be honest) strikingly attractive relatively young woman on the ticket.
I don't think every joke and jab at Sarah Palin is ipso facto sexism. I laughed at Tina Fey's impression on SNL. But I think women do get judged on their appearance and attractiveness more than men do, and I think that people are a bit quicker to deem an attractive woman to be an empty-headed bimbo than they are to make similar assessments about handsome men.
So we've got yesterday's Doonesbury, depicting the "Sarah Palin Action Doll"...
... and I'm not screaming bloody murder, I'm not pounding the table and howling in outrage. But there's something about depicting a curvy Palin in a bustier that strikes me as... well, we didn't see this aimed at Hillary, or Condi Rice, or Laura Bush, or Tipper Gore or Elizabeth Dole. I guess there's an unwritten satirist's rule that once the target is an attractive young woman, it's okay to portray her as a Barbie doll. (Or a dominatrix, I suppose, or calling her, as Maureen Dowd did, "Veep in Go-Go Boots.") I know Garry Trudeau mocks all Republicans, and George H.W. Bush was a point of light, and Dan Quayle was a feather, Newt Gingrich was a bomb, and President Bush was an asterisk. But I note those were mocking the target's rhetoric, or intellect, or temperament, etc. Palin is good-looking, so the line on her is... "hey, look, Busty Barbie!"
(Excerpt) Read more at campaignspot.nationalreview.com ...
Yes
With cankles and all? Ugh! No thanks...
Naturally a lib male would think that pointing out a female politician’s attractiveness is hilarity.
It’s not a bustier — it’s a one-piece swimsuit (a la beauty pageant).
Exactly. I was trying to find a bustier, when it dawned on me...ahhhh that’s a bathing suit.
I guess we have to accept that even good guys have their questionable fantasies when it comes to the Divine Sarah
None of them could pull it off.
No its not fair, She deserves to be judged by her deeds and character now how good she looks. For a liberal Doonesbury to do otherwise is sexist and demeaning...and somehow catty.
Maillot? is what we called them?
It would be foolish as there is no market for it. It would also be cruel and unusual punishment to do this to Americans.
We didn't?
What about the 'nude bust' of Hillary that that was done?
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/07/28/bust-out/
Words fail me at the thought.
No. It’s not.
Oh please. This is one link I won’t be clicking on.
Exactly. It looks to be riffing off of her participating in the Miss Alaska pageant.
}:-)4
Dude! use the big head to think with for once!
The tiny one will only get you in deep feces!
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