Posted on 01/15/2016 1:42:10 PM PST by Kaslin
Hillary Clinton's sense of style has been criticized for as long as she has been on the national political scene. One of the uglier forms this mockery has taken, most often in barbed private jokes and comments but occasionally openly by anti-gay activists, has been the "rumors" of secret lesbianism, supposedly evidenced by her pantsuits and her (actually not always full-throated) support of gay rights. Suggestions that Hillary Clinton is or might be a lesbian rightly belong where I first heard them: in the hallways of a middle school, coming out the mouths of homophobic pre-teens. Still, if Clinton were a lesbian, I'd be proud to claim her fashion sense. Clinton embodies something many lesbians accomplish effortlessly: She dresses in a way that does not cater to, or even consider, the male gaze. Clinton has never sought to make herself a sexual object to please straight men, even when such men have mocked and insulted her for having the temerity not to.
What follows that is classic progressive fare that mistakes wordiness for thinking.
Having begun with the premise that Hillary dresses like a lesbian, the writer immediately explains that there is no such thing as dressing like a lesbian, then shifts gears again with examples of what dressing like a lesbian looks like:
Hillary Clinton doesn't look like every lesbian, of course, because there's no one lesbian style. In addition to many who "look straight," or straight-ish, a huge variety of styles are recognizably queer but don't look remotely like Clinton's pantsuits. Asymmetrical haircuts, combat boots, or menswear on women are all arguably queerer than a simple women's pantsuit and hair that falls just above the shoulder. (That Clinton's style looks queer at all shows how small the box is for straight women who don't want to be labeled gay.)
That game of logical pong happened in just one paragraph.
Most of this post seems to be trying to make sure that the readers weren't offended by the headline. If you check out the comments section, it didn't work.
Progressives and liberals have to twist themselves into knots to explain their encounters with the obvious because those encounters are so rare for them. This writer reached a critical point where she could no longer look at pictures of Hillary Clinton and not say what everyone was thinking. Once the obvious cat was out of the bag, she had to round up a dozen or so distraction cats to try to stuff back in the bag with it.
I happen to think Hillary's "personal sense of style" is more Chairman Mao than lesbian. I have no idea if she is a lesbian but I do know she wants to be a commie dictator.
Then again, I don't know if Mao was a lesbian or not.
When she moves to Vermont with a Golden Retriever and buys a Lezbaru I’ll believe it!
Cue the captain obvious pictures.
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Evelyn [Waugh, the novelist] used always to say that Tito [the Yugoslav dictator] was a lesbian who lived in Paris at the period when it was fashionable for lesbians to have their breasts removed.
Towards the end of the war Waugh met Winston Churchill's son Randolph in the bar of White's Club, and as a result wound up being parachuted behind the lines in Yugoslavia. Waugh's first diary entry reads "Tito like lesbian" and from then on he always referred to the partisan leader as "she."
Exactly, I’m not exactly a 10 (woman) but if I were a lesbian looking for a partner, I would be looking for a 10.
I worked around Rita in the late 1960s. Rita wore jeans all the time, had her hair cropped short, and carried a large comb for which she had no use in her back pocket. Rita was the head dyke of the lesbian enclave at the company. She looked more masculine than most of the guys, and probably was.
Maybe Rita dressed and groomed the way she did because the feminine lesbians didn’t want boyfriends, but girlfriends that looked like a boy. But I suspect there was more to it than that. In those days, homosexuality in Texas was suppressed and to wreck your social status by managing to look like a queer was pretty non-trivial. That tension was what made me believe that homos are born, not made. Why would anyone submit themselves to discrimination and hostility if they didn’t have to? Rita was a lot of things, but Rita was not self-destructive. Then again, some of the femmes were pretty hot.
They just now noticed?....................
she has her MuslimBrothers lady friend with her apparently almost 24/7, while her hubby is out playing the field
does not look good
Hillary’s appearance doesn’t say “lesbian” to me-it says plump, dumpy broad who doesn’t give a damn about her appearance at all. I’m not into lesbians, but lived next door to a pair of lipstick lesbians who partied a lot at their house with guests who ran the gamut from those who dressed like hookers to absolute bull dykes-none of them were frumps, like Hillary. In past years I worked with a few lesbians, too-they were always well groomed and wore flattering clothes, whether it was slacks or dresses. Hillary is just a sloppy dresser...
yes well there IS that little detail, too....
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but ... you know....what’s a little treason nowadays...? i mean, ‘what the Hell difference does it make anymore, anyway!?’
to quote Hillary
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The good looking ones are called lipstick lesbians.
girls will be girls
Addressing nobody in particular:
There is now a concerted effort to dumb down the entire panoply of dialog concerning all of this election s**t.
I resent it. It is now looking like the people watching the Kardashians are actually smarter than the ones opining on all this goofballism. We do not deserve to have our brains sucked out. This isn’t neurosuction. Or maybe it is.
Yes, it is an indication as to the overall degree that we have abandoned any rationality and it is all emotion and playground insult now. The subtrivial nuances of the personalities evidently matter so much, since the Constitution clearly does not. That is the residue of the POS running the joint we have now.
Hey! Let’s talk about Hillary’s pantsuit! Good grief.
When I see this, I see the triumph of the libs. We’re talking pantsuit, not treason, not bribery at the highest levels of government.
I don’t wish to intrude on anyone’s conversation but I can see the intraparty rancor escalating just like it did last time. It produced the so-called “success” of 0bama.
It’s nauseating.
Hillary’s hair does not get to gay - yet. Someone I know came out as gay and she clipped her hair to the bare minimum to cover her head and her clothes had severe lines, no frills and no loud colors. Then, she went to a gay parade and had a pink wig and wild colors draped on her.
I have seen pictures of her friends and that closely cropped hair seems to be one of their calling cards.
No one is cutting off my hair, period.
But didn’t she smoke the Monica Lewinsky cigar?
Creepy looking....to say the least.
Butch and Fem.
LMAO-—thanks!!
i agree 100%. If i were/was a lesbian my girlfriend would be beautiful.
hey! I have a golden retriever AND a WRX so I dunno what you are talking about!!!!
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