Posted on 07/20/2007 1:27:14 PM PDT by Gopher Broke
Breaking News: Cleavage on Display
"There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton... There wasn't an unseemly amount of cleavage showing, but there it was. Undeniable," the Washington Post reported.
NEWSFLASH: Hillary Clinton has breasts.
And apparently that "news" merits coverage in the Washington Post.
In a Style section cover story on Friday, fashion "reporter" Robin Givhan notes that Hillary Clinton has taken a brazen step for a woman politician by wearing a low neckline. "Showing cleavage," says Givhan, "is a request to be engaged in a particular way. It doesn't necessarily mean that a woman is asking to be objectified, but it does suggest a certain confidence and physical ease."
Shock! Horror! A prominent woman showing confidence and physical ease!
Givhan goes on with her psychobabble: "It means that a woman is content being perceived as a sexual person in addition to being seen as someone who is intelligent, authoritative, witty and whatever else might define her personality. It also means that she feels that all those other characteristics are so apparent and undeniable, that they will not be overshadowed."
This article about the frontrunning candidate for U.S. president caused quite a stir in the NOW office this morning, eliciting reactions ranging from "You've got to be kidding!" to "What century is this?" The piece is definitely outrageous, but it's also hilarious. Absurdly hilarious. And it's an indictment of our society's lingering archaic notions of femininity, assumptions about breasts and sexuality, and fears about powerful women.
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Which cleavage? Front or rear?.........
Hillary’s cleavage display...
Okay, this is scaring me! I made need counseling.
cleavage from the hildabeast? My eyes, my eyes....
D’oh!
Cleavage you could mop a floor with.
No pictures please... I just ate.
Bttt, I thought she wanted to be one of the boys. Will they do an article of BJ’s bulge?
Hillary is none of those things.
Just when I thought the picture in my mind couldn't get any worse.
Running a story about Clinton wearing something low cut doesn’t sound like news so much as it does a public service announcement. It’s actually a warning to the public about a potential threat to everyone’s vision, like a warning not to look at a solar eclipse with the unaided eye. She’s our modern day Medusa.
Well, Slick Willy did have to remind everyone that Hillary was NOT a Man himself yesterday. I suppose Hitlery was just trying to re-inforce this new talking point, though I am not yet convinced.
It is such a shame that she had to subject people to that sight. I pray there were not too many victims who actually saw this horror!
I don’t remember NOW defending Mrs. Fred Thompson’s right to keep and bare cleavage.....
NOW has absolutely no sense of humor.
Wow! Shall we all join in a chorus of "I Am Woman"? But we already knew that because Bill said so just the other day. Yes, he admitted that Hillary was not a man. Finally.
Oh my!!! Ya’ll are waaaaaaaay too funny!!!
These NOW idiots make me sick. They get their bloomers in a wad over media coverage of Hillary’s cleavage but don’t give a damn about the abuse and subjugation of women under TROP.
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