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Melania and Ivanka's plastic feminism cover up Trump's misogyny (Docile and Compliant Women!)
CNN ^ | 2-23-2017 | Jill Filipovic

Posted on 02/26/2017 4:36:06 PM PST by tcrlaf

In his press conference last week, in which President Trump ranted and raved that he wasn't ranting and raving, he answered a question about his wife, Melania. "That's what I call a very nice question," he said, apparently relieved to stop talking about his own policies, before saying the first lady feels very strongly about "women's issues" and "women's difficulties."

Trump didn't specify what these "issues" and "difficulties" might be. One presumes that, despite the phrasing, he probably meant things like equal pay and health care, and not what old men usually mean when they cryptically speak about our "difficulties."

He then swiftly regressed into thin-skinned indignation, complaining that despite the first lady's strength as an advocate for women, "she gets so unfairly maligned."

(SNIP)

Melania and Ivanka provide good cover for Trump's misogyny because they're palatable, conventionally feminine women: They're docile and poised, they don't make demands of men, and they are above all conventionally beautiful -- white and thin.

Now, Trump is using his wife and daughter's status as American women to feign concern for women while he actively makes life worse for women around the world. And Melania and Ivanka sit passively by.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; fakenews; fakestreammedia; hate; ivanka; jakenews; jealousy; melania; milania; pedoalliance; trump
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To: tcrlaf

CNN better be careful....someone might start to think that they don’t like President Trump.


81 posted on 02/26/2017 9:11:15 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Fred Nerks

Ha! She looks just like me in that pic. I wouldn’t wear anything that unflattering though!


82 posted on 02/26/2017 9:16:36 PM PST by To Hell With Poverty (Refreshing? Trump makes me feel like I just freebased a York Peppermint Pattie!)
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To: tcrlaf

Bring the roses cause there sure is a good pile of horse manure in this article.


83 posted on 02/26/2017 9:22:33 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

Jill, the author of this venomous piece, is not a bad looking woman, quite good looking already. But …according the article, she travels with a vibrator, not a husband or boyfriend. She takes out her frustrations on women who have it all. Schools are teaching all women to be vicious, jealous harridans. They get their hair and nails done, wear nice clothes, but inside are tremendously frustrated.

I can say all this because I am a woman .who actually likes men and admires beautiful women.


84 posted on 02/26/2017 9:28:20 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Mike Darancette
When is the CNN on air talent (including men) going to start wearing “pussy hats”?

Funny!!!

I think the alleged men at cnn would look very much better in pink.

85 posted on 02/26/2017 9:37:37 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Fred Nerks

Great photo juxtaposition, trash vs class.


86 posted on 02/26/2017 9:38:53 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: tcrlaf

NO WONDER cnn IS BEING PHASED OUT!!!


87 posted on 02/26/2017 10:09:57 PM PST by Torquay
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To: tcrlaf

This is gutter trash.


88 posted on 02/26/2017 10:10:23 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Candor7
She DOES satisfy the crazy-hot matrix, however.

She is in the primary No-Go zone.


89 posted on 02/27/2017 2:45:57 AM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: To Hell With Poverty
Ha! She looks just like me in that pic. I wouldn’t wear anything that unflattering though!

Marry me.

90 posted on 02/27/2017 2:46:56 AM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Eddie01; Vlad The Inhaler

Michelle’s ring fingers are longer than her index fingers.

Her shoulders are three times (not two and a half times) the width of her head.

That’s a man baby!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

That explains Obama’s obsession with transgender issues.Obama is married to an a-hole buddy who NOW has male plumbing?.

What a wookie surprise!


91 posted on 02/27/2017 2:55:09 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Lazamataz

Yep, Jill Filipovic is definitely in the No Go zone. ( Hit it quick from behind to “filip” her to being a Republican) LOL.


92 posted on 02/27/2017 2:59:40 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7

Correction: She is Danger Zone. 8 looks, 10 crazy.


93 posted on 02/27/2017 3:03:47 AM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: tcrlaf

Trump didn’t specify what these “issues” and “difficulties” might be. One presumes that, despite the phrasing, he probably meant things like equal pay and health care>>>>>>>>>>>>

Filipovixc presumes wrongly.

What President Trump actually meant was that women, especially the leftist versions, have difficulty meeting real men these days, so they have to make do with Euro-weenies and Gurly men.This makes them full of hate.

A women who is treated right by a real man is not full of hate like the Filipovics of the world.

Like most femino-nazis,Filipovic wouldn’t know a real man if one fell into her clearly worn a$$. I actually feel sorry for her, only for an instant.


94 posted on 02/27/2017 3:07:10 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Lazamataz

Correction: She is Danger Zone. 8 looks, 10 crazy.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hey, that’s right up there with Marie Harf the Untouchable!


95 posted on 02/27/2017 3:09:47 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: relictele

Jill is senior political editor for...Cosmopolitan?!?!?

This is akin to being the arts critic for Hustler.

_____________________

Cosmopolitan?

The center of the focus on appearance, sluttyness, and beauty for women?


96 posted on 02/27/2017 3:10:10 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: tcrlaf

This is nothing but raw hate and jealousy, disguised as “News”.

If ANYONE on the right had dared to write a story in a national media outlet even REMOTELY like this about the Obama women, they would have been driven into hiding and the outlet shut down for “It’s Blatant Racism”!

___________________

Tell me that Michelle Obama wasn’t focused on being a “conventionally beautiful” black woman.

Black beauty and white beauty have different components.

Halle Berry is not a black beauty, she has been surgically enhanced to compete in the white beauty category.


97 posted on 02/27/2017 3:15:02 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: tbw2

Boy this one is really good. I missed it first time around, here is an excerpt I like:

The first stage of Conservative Female Abuse by the Left is infantilization. Right-wing women can’t possibly believe what they believe about the sanctity of life, self-defense, free markets, or foreign policy. They must be submissive little dolls of the White Male Hierarchy. Or, as a far Left (is there any other kind of Left in San Francisco?) San Francisco Chronicle columnist wrote of First Lady Laura Bush, they must be put in their place as “docile doormats” with no brains of their own. True to form, no sooner had John McCain announced Gov. Palin as his veep pick than jeers of “Palin = neocon puppet” sprouted across the Internet.

The second stage of CFA is sexualization. A conservative woman is not merely a sellout. She is an intellectual prostitute. Unable or unwilling to argue with them on the merits, detractors resort to mocking the physical appearance of their ideological opponents in skirts and denigrating them with vulgar epithets. MSNBC hosts insulted former GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s accomplished wife and mother of two, Jeri Thompson, as working the stripper pole. Newspaper cartoonists Ted Rall, Pat Oliphant, and Jeff Danziger caricatured Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a mammy, thick-lipped parrot, and Bush “House Nigga” armed with “hair straightener.” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd derided former GOP Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris for applying “her makeup with a trowel.”

True to form, Dowd was first out of the box to snicker at Gov. Palin’s beauty pageant past, ridicule her “beehive and sexy shoes,” and compare her path to the vice presidential nomination as a “hokey chick flick.” Joe Biden backhandedly praised her as “good looking.” And left-wing bloggers worked overtime on lurid photoshops of Palin as a bikini model and porn star. At the Democratic Underground, a highly trafficked liberal website raising money for Barack Obama, members held a contest to come up with nicknames and posters to slime GOP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — and then to “spread [them] all over the ‘net.” Among the “nicer” entries: “Cruella,” “Gidget,” “Governor Jesus Camp,” “VPILF,” “Fertilla the Huntress,” “Iditabroad,” and “KILLER PYSCHO FUNDIE BITCH FROM HELL!!”

The third stage of CFA is demonization. When the Left tires of hurling whore insults, it turns conservative women in the public eye into nefarious creatures. Bill Maher called Laura Bush “Hitler’s dog.” George Carlin attacked Barbara Bush as “the Silver douchebag.” A Huffington Post website member wrote of Nancy Reagan: “Like her evil husband, she has lived far too long. Here’s hoping the hag suffers for several weeks, then croaks in the tub.” Another added: “I feel no pity for the bitch who took delight in watching thousands die of a horrible disease and watching the poor having to eat out of dumpsters because of her husband’s political beliefs.”

True to form, rumors of Palin being a crypto-Nazi surfaced on the Internet and the fringe media. And liberal critics used her gun-rights record to smear her as bloodthirsty.

And the final stage of CFA is dehumanization. Conservative women aren’t real women according to the liberal feminist establishment’s definition. Remember when Gloria Steinem called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a “female impersonator?” Or when curdled NOW leader Patricia Ireland instructed Democrats to vote only for “authentic” female political candidates? Or when Al Gore’s fashion consultant Naomi Wolf described the foreign-policy analysis of Jeane Kirkpatrick as being “uninflected by the experiences of the female body?”

Echoing the bottom-feeders in the liberal blogosphere, mainstream journalists and Obama water-carriers now question Palin’s commitment to motherhood and even challenged her pre-natal care decisions in an effort to destroy her. Forget about questioning their patriotism. I question their sanity.


98 posted on 02/27/2017 3:18:40 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: BwanaNdege

With makeup and a hair do to try to look like a conventionally beautiful white woman.


99 posted on 02/27/2017 3:20:18 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: tcrlaf

I agree. . .pure evil-dripping jealousy.


100 posted on 02/27/2017 8:24:08 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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