The end of the sensitive politician

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Sunday, October 12, 2003 | Frida Ghitis

[Willie Green]

Arnold Schwarzenegger's election as governor of California makes official what has been brewing for some time: The era of the sensitive man has come to an end.

From Sacramento to Jerusalem, from Bogota to Baghdad, across all latitudes and longitudes, the masses feel drawn towards the strong, choosing the tough over the thoughtful, the swaggering over the serene. The international political arena increasingly resembles the old Saturday Night Live game show "Quien es mas Macho?" The show where contestants tried to guess who was more macho, deciding if, for example, John Wayne had more testosterone than Charles Bronson.

[Willie Green]

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[Sam Cree]

"The last hurrah of the sensitive man was Bill Clinton's presidency"

What a weirdo this author is. Clinton, a sexual predator, who smears the reputation, possibly commits violence, of those who may go public, presented as "sensitive."

Makes me wonder what the word actually means. I suppose it depends on how you define "is."

Or maybe this piece is a parody?

[jocon307]

"The era of the sensitive man has come to an end."

About damn time. Good post!

[Willie Green]

I think she's referring to the masquerade that the politicians put on to pander to the public, NOT their actual personalities.

[randog]

Nature abhors a vacuum, and when western culture embraced The Sensitive Guy (about the time Alan Alda declared himself a feminist), the rest of the world rushed in to fill the void in the form of world terrorism.

[nosofar]

Clinton, a sexual predator, who smears the reputation, possibly commits violence, of those who may go public, presented as "sensitive."

It's not Clinton himself, it's the image he tried to project.

[pabianice]

The Era of the Sensitive Man came to an end on the morning of September 11, 2001.

[neverdem]

"The Era of the Sensitive Man came to an end on the morning of September 11, 2001."

I guess the term "metrosexual" which just entered the lexicon of American English, IIRC, is already obsolete.