Mommy Hillary
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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NOW refuses to admit that Hillary’s detractors despise her because she’s an out and out MARXIST,
not because we [sneer]”fear powerful women”.
I’d be more worried about the hidden testicles we DON’T see......
LOL!
Gosh, I just crack myself up sometimes.
ROTFL
N.O.W. are just a bunch of men hating, hairy lipped non males. yuk!
A few points:
1. No one wants to see Hillary’s cleavage.
2. “Feminism” is the most inappropriate name ever applied to an ideology. It wouldn’t be more stupid to call transvestites “masculinists.”
3. The NOW bunch hates everything about being women, especially breasts and having babies.
4. Women deserve more choices than NOW’s two alternatives of being a “liberated” skank or living as an androgynous pseudo-man.
Why were you looking down there?
Huh?
That’s right!
She seriously should have bobby pinned closed that blazer though...
Cankle Cleavage..?
She’s a-packin’ “down there” AFAIK.
I thought this was a spoof at first. Hillary may bigger “knockers” than Obama or Edwards, but if Al Gore jumps in the race, game’s on.
safety pinned...
Gawd. I just threw up a little in my mouth.
There wasn’t an unseemly amount of cleavage showing,” the Washington Post reported.
That’s because there is unseemly so little there. ha !
Thank God. For a second there I was worried it was an article about Barney Frank.
It's pretty pathetic when you have to drastically change your style of dress to try to look like a female, and prance out your lying rapist husband to insist you don't act like a man.
What cleavage? Where her thighs meet her knees?
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