On Monday, the front and center picture on Drudge Report was Hillary Clinton's bespectacled face without makeup, because apparently we've talked about every other possible topic in the world. The picture of Clinton's face, which Matt Drudge helpfully tagged "Au Naturel," features the smiling Secretary of State's countenance naked but for black framed glasses and red lipstick.
Fox echoed Matt Drudge's triumphant smugness, asking in their headline if Hillary "forgot" her makeup, as though she'd been caught peeing her pants onstage or flashing her crotch at paparazzi as she got out of a limo.
These women are trying to run a country, not competing on America's Next Top Model. Who cares what they put on their faces?Sexist men.
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Liberal commentator Imogen Lloyd Webber puts them all to shame.
Your link is borked.
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^^ Let's be fair. There are just as many women out there who are perpetuating this kind of shallow, sexist crap. It's a societal flaw, not just an issue caused by men.
As for the article:
I can't count the number of times I've been engaged with a debate with someone online, only to have them say something to the effect of, "I bet you're fat/ugly!" when they find out that I'm female. It really does seem to be a perceived trump card for debating against women.
Then we have images like this:
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(Funny how all of the conservative shots are publicity stills, with professionally applied makeup, air-brushing, etc., while the liberal ones are candid shots of women making awkward faces -- but that's beside the point.)
Who gives a shit whether or not Clinton wore makeup. It's just republicans trying to make a shitstorm over nothing. Also when did Ann Coulter become the standard for beauty??To be honest out of that list the only one I'd give them is Bo Derek, and I think that picture may well be 20 years old at this point.
Who gives a shit whether or not Clinton wore makeup. It's just republicans trying to make a shitstorm over nothing. Also when did Ann Coulter become the standard for beauty??
I've always found that people will pettily cling on to stuff like this when it comes to politics. A very good example of this is when Obama got that burger a few years back and some of Fox's correspondents were chastising him over his choice of condiments. I still remember one of them saying something along the lines of "A real man doesn't get honey mustard on a burger."
A variation of this is the stories of embarrassing yet totally inconsequential "scandals" about a candidate that involve nothing illegal or improper, but supposedly define the candidate as a person.
Hey, did you know that Barack Obama is an out-of-touch elitist because he puts fancy Dijon mustard on his hamburgers? Did you know that Mitt Romney is an insane sociopath because he once made his pet dog ride on top of his car 26 years ago? Did you know John Kerry can't relate to the average person because he puts Swiss cheese on his Philly cheese steaks? Did you know that George W. Bush hates foreigners so much that he wiped his hand after shaking hands with a Haitian? Did you know that all of this is petty schoolyard bullshit that wastes valuable time and energy that you'll never get back?