Maureen Dowd: The Taming of the Shrews (Takes One to Know One MoDo..)

NY Times ^ | Sunday March 6, 2005 | Maureen Dowd

[gopwinsin04]

From pornography to 'Desperate Housewives' women being degraded has an entertainment value far greater than men being degraded.

People like Martha Stewart and Hillary Clinton a lot more once they were 'broken,' ice queens melted into puddles of vulnerability.

Hillary was America's first lady, photographed smiling in her designer dresses as she oversaw table settings and placements for state dinners, even though she did not care about such domestic piffle and was instead really manuvering to take over huge chunks of domestic policy.

Martha was the first lady of gold leaf designer lifestyle nesting, even though her uber-nest was so scary that her husband flew the coop. Though she was the ulitmate professional homemaker and nurturer, she left her daughter off the list of the things she would miss in jail.

Obviously, many men are uncomfortable with successful women, so when these women are brushed back, alpha men can take comfort in knowing that the alphettes are not threateningly all powerful and that they had better soften those sharp edges.

And what about Condi, who's now being touted for the Republican ticket in 2008? Perhaps she does not need to play the victim to make people feel better about her power because she was never seen as pushing people around and bending them to her will.

She always seems subserviant to President Bush and VP Dick Cheney, a willing handmaiden for their bellicose bidding.

[ozzymandus]

Mo is basically a sad, bitter, pathetic old maid, but my sympathy for her was exhausted long ago. She's so jealous and nasty I wonder if she's ever gotten any real professional help. Maybe a Prozac scrip would lighten her mood a little.

[ScorpiusInvincitatus]

Maureen Dowd... what a pity. Perfect example of estrogen gone awry. Were reincarnation a possibility, I assume she'd come back as Atilla the Nun.

[ScorpiusInvincitatus]

AWESOME!!!! God love you, that is beautiful. Bravo, Bravo!

[suzyq5558]

I truly dislike this horrid,tactless woman.

[ScorpiusInvincitatus]

Ok, I've had the flu, and haven't eaten in awhile, but you JUST took the desire to attempt it way out of range. Be kind, eh?

[MikeHu]

Why would anybody want to be Helen Thomas when they grow up?

[HitmanLV]

MoDo stoops to conquer...

[ExtremeUnction]

Thanks for the pic, but are those, "Man-Hands??:"

[Happygal]

That's very good.

My dog is looking at me funny though...I don't think he's used to me singing this late at night! :-)

[Jim Noble]

Where can I get a car like this?

[rdcorso]

Maybe people don't like a woman like Hiliary because she got to where she is today by stealing and stabbing people in the back.Women like Condi and Martha had to work hard to get where they are today and people respect that.There's a big difference between using hard work and dedication to advance yourself and riding on your corrupt husband or anybody else who will you get there.

[BobS]

Send me one of those cuties. I'm fresh out of belly-button lint tonight and approaching a state of boredom; bushy-tailed and awaiting my next lady situation:):)

[JoeSixPack1]

ROFL!! Made me look. Yes. Man-Hands.

This has been a recurring problem in women of high demand and I have a hypothesis.

Grabing hold of something and anchoring one's self has been known to crack a few nails, create rug-rash, and cause warts, so, over time = = = man-hands!!

There ya have it!

MoDo has never had this problem.

LOL!! :-)

[Ann Archy]

Dowdy is a fairly good writer although she thinks "smally". She never looks at big picture, things that matter, things.....she thinks on a very small scale.

[BobS]

"Maureen must read these threads."

Of course she sneaks around here. They all do. She has brains. That's why I want her to jump the fence and meet guys who also possess brains. The democrat party is ruled mostly by drooling geriatric psychotic attractive nuisances. No woman should be forced to hang with a bunch like that.

Maureen should come over to our side where there are smiles, nice people, and a generally upbeat approach to life. We should ping her:):)

[BobS]

Shhh! We are in the process of getting her to "flip". There is intelligence under all that brown hair just waiting to bubble up:):)

[marty60]

That is a good point. do we really want a President that can be blackmailed. We may have been new at internet research during the Things administration. But, I bet plenty of foreign agents have the goods on Hitlery.

She can not be President because of National Security.

[Milhous]

Shhh! We are in the process of getting her to "flip". There is intelligence under all that brown hair just waiting to bubble up:):)

Jerry: Not conversion. You're thinking conversion?

Elaine: Well it did occur to me.

Jerry: You think you can get him to just change teams? He's not going to suddenly switch sides. Forget about it.

Elaine: Why? Is it irrevocable?

Jerry: Because when you join that team it's not a whim. He likes his team. He's set with that team.

Elaine: We've got a good team.

Jerry: Yeah, we do. We do have a good team.

Elaine: Why can't he play for us?

Jerry: They're only comfortable with *their* equipment.

Elaine: We just got along *so* great.

Jerry: Of course you did. Everyone gets along great when there's no possibility of sex.

Elaine: No, no, no, I sensed something. I did sense something. I perceived a possibility Jerry.

Jerry: You realize you're venturing into uncharted waters.

Elaine: I realize that.

Jerry: Are you that desperate?

Elaine: Yes I am.

The Beard

This is not Maureen Dowd

[nutmeg]

read later

[Rep-for-real]

You can always count on Mo to diss Bush and/or Cheney in her screeds, but half way through this one I was beginning to wonder if she'd forgotten about B/C as she was getting all worked up over Hillary and Martha. I should have more patience, I suppose.

Also, did she make a Freudian slip by lumping Hillary, Martha, and cockroaches together?