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.
That is kind of the point of homosexuality. There is of course a continuum, but usually, the male has a lot of female looks and mannerisms, and the female, male. Women who seek out a butch, mannish haircut and dress clearly in a male fashion have something “off” in their brains (this would be in the identity party of their brains) that isn’t “norm.” They were like this from small child age. This is of course a clue that they will grow up to be lesbian. (In about 75% of the cases.) Clearly they can’t help these choices; it feels right to them. Gender identity definitely has a curve. This is a malfunction of something somewhere, and it’s not their fault, so I am ok with women dressing like men if that is what they are drawn to.
Sexual attraction is slightly different, with some overlap. Some people who look and choose to dress “normally” for their gender are nevertheless attracted and turned on more by their own gender.
Also note that even among straight men, they are not all excited by the same women. Leave the obvious gorgeous models behind, and some men just love the sporty, athletic, barefoot beauty, and some go nuts over the ultra made up, coiffed girl in the highest of heels.
So Hitlery likes to visit the taco stand every now and then....
This has always interested me too. I have had some very close gay male friends, and they have NEVER been attracted to the flaming effeminate gays. I was wondering, who is? It seems that the more effeminate gay men, while they long for the strong, macho gay types, often don’t end up with them. Often, the really effeminate ones end up with guys who are mildly effeminate too. ALL of them want straight seeming men. But the straight seeming men tend to want other straight seeming men.
Lesbians are slightly different because they aren’t as visual. They seem to be more accepting of all types of lesbians and choose not only according to appearances. Note that alpha dog Ellen DeGeneres (wealthy, funny) was able to snag a gorgeous woman who looks quite feminine.
“hey! I have a golden retriever AND a WRX s”
But....Do you live in vermont? LOL
The chain wallet under the pants suit jacket is a dead giveaway.
no but Virginia’s a V state......now i am sad.
at least a couple
I think you are safe. ;) You have a WRX and the lezbaru of choice is a 10 year old Outback/Forester. !!!!
I think that Hillary likes the soft shelled tacos. Her favorite sauce probably is picante
The two gay dudes I know are all feminine looking and acting. I didn't know there were "manly" gay men.
I now only know one lesbian, and she's butch. Although I did know a girl a long time ago, and I suspected she might have been gay (mainly because we hung out a good bit, but I could never make any progress... but she always wanted to hang). But this girl was very girly, and she had a lot of girly friends... none of whom ever seemed to have a boyfriend, or even dates.
It seems in every homosexual relationship, male with male or female with female, one of the partners plays a man or a woman. To me, that just proves that the natural order of things is man with woman.
thanks! i feel better now that people don’t think i am lesbionic.
No one is cutting off my hair, period.
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Lucky you. No one is cutting off my hair either. It’s leaving of its own free will.
yeah, tell me about the self-deporting hair.
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Uh....because she IS a Lesbian!!!
Wealthy? yes
Funny? Not hardly
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