Ann Feminist Extrordinaire Althouse decides to attack Jessica of Feministing for “posing” in a picture in front of Bill Clinton. Never mind that half of the people in this photo are in the same “pose.” Short people up front. Tittygate 2006 ensues.
Allow me to point out the irony in Ms. Althouse’s post. She uses Jessica’s body as a vehicle to slam feminism — in the name of feminism.
Why the woman can’t get her shit together and lie like a real libertarian, I don’t know.
I swear, it’s so goddamned transparent. This dustup isn’t about Jessica. It is about Bill Clinton. I’m pleased that so many pointed out how Ann’s pinched attempt at dressing Jessica down is base, petty and mean. One would think a tenured Constitutional law professor could come up with a cogent explanation why she finds it inappropriate for a young feminist to attend a luncheon with Bill Clinton as guest of honor. But she didn’t.
I also love the brouhaha that was made about Jessica’s John Aravosis’ comments about Clinton’s eye color. Incidentally, Bill’s eyes really are a striking shade of blue — because his nose is an alcoholic shade of red.
As for looks, Ann, you look like a fool. You are an accomplished, professional adult. Act like it.
Everything is about Clinton.
And Bill’s eyes really are a striking shade of blue — but only because his nose is alcoholic red.
Ouch. You know, that’s probably due to his heart medication.
It wasn’t even Jessica commenting about Clinton’s eyes; that was John Avrosis.
Now will these feminists please go back to being unattractive &/or sexless? It really puts a strain on one’s worldview.
I don’t get Ann… women aren’t supposed to show their boobies by having boobies?
Plus anyone else not know what most of the bloggers they read look like? Is it just me? I saw the pic, and didn’t know off hand who most of them were. It is nicer now to put a picture to the face, but it seems that with all the media now that people are always judged on looks, even when you are just reading their work. So to me, the really insulting thing about it all is that Ann/wingnuts reduced Jessica/Feministing down to “tittyblogger” or whatever bs name she coined from just a picture.
Now to go copy and paste this comment at every other blog… :)
Thanks for the correction, Sean. I’m never allowed to comment on others’ reading skills again. :P
That was so weird. I’m not so surprised at the original dumb intern jokes, because, you know, it is Clinton, and I kind of expect that sort of joke to be made about any young and pretty woman who happens to be placed in front of him in a photo. But to be shocked, shocked that Jessica isn’t laughing along at the intern joke? To shake a finger at the supposed sluttiness of her ordinary T-shirt, as if she were Mae West in a G-string?
Blogger wears T-shirt when meeting Clinton! News at 11!
I don’t get Ann
Stop right there. There’s nothing to get. She [behaves as if she] is a clown. A mean one that scares your kids.
This whole thing is fucking vile. I even saw someone over at S,N! complaining that we liberals were using too many swear words. It’s the act: It’s okay to sexually harass someone, make veiled rape threats, make open rape threats – but swearing is RIGHT THE FUCK OUT.
I think it really is about Clinton. They hate him and can’t stand that he gets to look at pretty young women. How many wingnuts do you think believe he gropes because they themselves can’t imagine being near someone like Jessica without groping her?
This is Ann’s Jackie Mackie Paisley Passey moment.
In fairness, I’m not sure that Jackie Mackie etc. etc. ever wrote anything remotely that stupid…
Wasn’t Jackie Mackey Paisley Passey the name of the unsuccessful fourth Refreshments album?
Someone has probably already pointed this out, since I couldn’t sit through more than half of the comments on Althouse’s blog. But the woman is wearing a GREY COTTON T-shirt with SLEEVES and an almost – crew neck. Fer crying out loud, she is not wearing clothes designed to draw attention to her breasts, as most of Althouse’s monkeys appear to be saying! This t-shirt would be perfectly at home on a young “modesty movement” fundamentalist, AFAIK.
What confected hysteria. Thank goodness I won’t feel the need to add that blog to my reading list, I have too many good ones to read already.
I think it really is about Clinton. They hate him and can’t stand that he gets to look at pretty young women.
That, and pretty young women (and other kinds of women) like him.
I don’t think they have th’ tall poppies (or evn the Tall Popeyes) on th’ wild ‘n’ boundin main, but I have t’ say, not only is this about th’ Clinton, and th’e Althouse laziness to resort to a bashin of someone engagin in BWB (Blogging While Boobified), but let us please remember an never fergit: Jessica Valenti is young, articulate, intelligent, and totally on th’ way up to makin a real difference in Our National Discourse.
For some, this represents intellectual competition, and since these same someones somehow believe that there is a finite amount of attention and limelight and other anti-scurvacious stuff like that, the competition must, like the tall poppies, be whacked down by any means necessary.
Or, on days like today, those who speak out and stand up and say important stuff can expect to be regarded (by lily-livered bilge rat pundits an’ their ilk) as scurvy curs who ortin’ t’ be keel hauled.
Avast! Pay ‘em nay mind. Ye be doin’ somethin right.
Yar, I bin postin’ at her latest post on t’ subject and she still be absolutely convinced she bin doin’ nothin wrong by attacking Jessica’s posture in the scurvy picture. I be goin’ insane tryin’ to understand her flawed logic on t’ subject, but I also be mighty tired o’ the entire endeavor.
Thar be nothin’ to understand, she..
oh fuck this.
There’s nothing to understand; she’s completely insane. You CANNOT try to follow her logic; her feverish little brain doesn’t work like that. It’s…well, there are names for behavior like that, but at the bottom it’s not even about ideology.
But think about it: when’s the last time you heard this sort of “argument?” “I never said that!” “Here it is in print right in front of you.” “You’re mean! Stop attacking me! All I did was say something about you and here you are attacking me! Why don’t you defend yourself? Why don’t you talk about what I have suddenly decided is the REAL subject?”
…i mean, besides all over the goddam place for the last x years in the media and so forth.
This is how very young children reason; there’s a wee want there. Even if she’d been more intelligent and eloquent, it still would have had that weird down-the-rabbit-hole feel.
The child ain’t right.