What is it about a woman in power that turns men into childish cry-baby morons? ‘Wah! Wah! The skirt’s telling me what to do!’
Lame. pathetic. idiots.
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I agree with you Anna…but you know women’s clothes are kind of interesting and uhh pretty…*dont hit me anna*
Women aren’t men after all. A woman shouldn’t become speaker of the house to have to be a man and literally “a drab suit” (literally and metaphorically). But rather to be herself.
*coughs* but saying that superficiality of American media is grating- i mean don’t they have a failed occupation to report on?
Violence against women Anna- Australia says NO! *ducks*
I was referring to her having to put up with assholery like this:
BUSH ON PELOSI: “I SHARED WITH HER THE NAMES OF SOME REPUBLICAN INTERIOR DECORATORS WHO CAN HELP HER PICK OUT THE NEW DRAPES IN HER NEW OFFICE”….
A woman becomes powerful but of course you have to talk about the fact that she’s a woman and all she’s really interested in are clothes and drapes. They have to remind of her ‘place’ after all- which isn’t Speaker of the House.
and this:
“I always use the line for Nancy Pelosi, “You get one shot at a facelift. If it doesn’t work the first time, let it go.†- Frank Luntz
and this:
â€Every time I see Pelosi in her little Chanel suits — a latter day “Wacky O†— regurgitating the Democratic talking points that she had to learn phonetically because the word “grasp†is not even vaguely in her vocabulary, I shake my head so badly you could blend paint colors in my mouth.†- Dennis Miller
Did Bush actually say that? Man is he bitter about having majorly lost in the mid term elections…
these critics clutching at straws Anna- they know the women are here to stay and rule the world muahahahahah
the more bitter the invective becomes the more you know the status quo is feeling v threatened and challenged.
isn’t it interesting that if a women made a remark like that it would be automatically slandered as bitter, bitchy, mean, catty and “woman-like” sly and underhanded?
i think i’ve ranted about this before, but here we go again… i’m always dismayed to find that when there is a woman in a position of prominence or focus from the media, any criticisms (and compliments, too) are always centred on her appearance and femininity. it reminds me of germaine greer’s comments re steve irwin, the response to which on blogs, forums etc was overwhelmingly negative, not surprisingly. but what was interesting was that all the comments attacked her for being a woman; jeering at her age, looks, ‘need for sex’, etc etc. the only reference to what she actually said on ACA were attacks on her irrationality, hysteria etc, again, all highly gendered notions of behaviour.
I think Nancy is very pretty, I like powerful, attractive women. I don’t agree with her political leanings though (lighten up on gun control and taxes), but that’s OK. Nothing really changes that much in politics anyway because the American system has such enertia. I hope Nancy brings lots of excitment, kind of like Clinton kept things exciting.