If I Were A Republican Woman I’d Be Insulted
Reading this article brought two things to mind – The Stepford Wives and Enjoli…
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Ah yes, you’ve come a long way, baby.
Right-wing women rock.
Not for us the sturdy, honest calves of the New Democrat/Green Party female, honed on eco-tourist rainforest hikes.
Those legs are often on unfortunate display, extending from a knee-length tweed skirt as hairy as the legs themselves, and end in a pair of Birkenstocks.
I have yet to see a pair of Birkenstock women’s shoes that didn’t look like part of the required uniform for police SWAT teams. Sensible shoes are one thing … quite another to don a pair that look like they’re meant for rappelling down the sides of buildings with a Heckler & Koch sniper rifle slung over your shoulder.
The primary reason our womenfolk are at war with the looming spectre of the nanny state is because you can’t buy Jimmy Choos in a socialist paradise.
The only sensible footwear you’ll find in a right-wing woman’s closet are the Nike cross-trainers that go with her gym membership.
Everything else has a three-inch heel. Minimum.
So… the primary reason for their womenfolk’s (love the possessive, btw) ideology is buying Jimmy Choos? Seriously? And I realize Ian wrote this article in an attempt to sneer at liberal women, but I think he achieved just the opposite – because any woman (R or D) with a brain abandoned this “who’s prettier” game in junior high school.
Moving onward – or, rather backward.
A right-wing woman hits the gym, swings past Sobey’s and has dinner on the table by the time you get home … while her left-wing counterpart is still stuck in traffic listening to Sarah McLachlan on her iPod and feeling morally superior about her carrot choices.
And when that plate of food is put in front of you by the right-wing hottie you had the good sense to marry, it will be 100% tofu-free. If you’re lucky, she just remembered to buy steak and forgot about the carrot entirely.
My, oh my. Where to begin? Is this right-wing hottie you had the good sense to marry wearing Enjoli while she waits on her man? Ooh, and did she change out of her gym clothes and into a sexy, little black dress – complete with her 5″ Jimmy Choos – before she put the plate in front of him? Which also creates the image of the man sitting at the table waiting to be served – as obviously is his right. The article goes on to say that most Republican women have careers and prefer to raise traditional families, or at least hire a vetted nanny. Where I’m sitting I have to ask: What is hubby doing while his right-wing hottie is working, raising a traditional family, going to the gym so she stays hot, buying groceries and Jimmy Choos (actually, according to Ian, their womenfolk are shop-a-holics,), cooking dinner and serving it?
Oh yeah, Republican women should be insulted. In one article they’ve been reduced to tits and ass with a credit card. Even when Ian tries to give them a brain, he fails. Unless you consider running a household budget so there’s enough money left to buy 500.00 shoes and telling your husband that he can’t go to the Super Bowl every year makes you a financial genius. But, let’s face it, this article really isn’t about women. It’s about men.
And if this is the normal thought process of the Republican man then Republican women have my sympathy. And I’m beginning to think Ian’s opinion isn’t an outlier. Just look at the way Republican men react to Sarah Palin.
BTW, I don’t remember seeing any Jimmy Choos at the tea parties? I must have missed them.
Tags: Republican Crazy, sexism
Did you consult Elizabeth Edwards, wife of John Edwards? Maybe Eliot Spitzer’s wife?
Mike Protack
Well maybe if Republican women followed the ideal stated in your post there wouldn’t be so much shoe-tappin’ in airport mens’ rooms.
Oh, Mikey. Do you realize that you just back-door defended this assertion that women must follow a certain check-list to be considered acceptable? BTW, no where in this post did Pandora even try to defend those scum-bag male spouses.
True, R-commie,lib-Smitty. But that’s all Mikey’s got. He defended it because he believes it.
BTW, anyone else think Ian just discovered the designer Jimmy Choo?
viva la difference…
It’s a cultural problem – you see it a lot more open on the internet but it’s persistent everywhere. Men talk about women, even colleagues sometimes, in terms of their sexual attractiveness. This columnist is just doing the age-old thing where he insults the attractiveness of women he doesn’t like and praises the attractiveness of women he does like. Let me tell him and other person who thinks like this – most women don’t really care what you think about our attractiveness because there is more to us than tits and ass.
Also, this guy lives in Calgary? So he’s telling us that conservative women wear either tennis shoes or high-heeled shoes in the snow? LOL! My husband is Canadian – one thing he tells me is that Canadians are known for dressing for comfort.
After DrinkingLiberally last night, I was hoping for mention of NILVs
Okay… what is NILV? And am I an idiot for not knowing? 😉
“Nuns I’d Like to V???”
Nanny’s I’d Like to Vet (or was it ‘Vette)?
Clearly you weren’t at our (left) end of the table!
Even if this is how a lot of guys think, it takes a special kind of stupid to write it in a newspaper column (and for an editor to publish it).
Frankly, this is how too many of the conservatives I know think about EVERYthing — I’m tougher than you (or, rather, you’re weaker than me) because I’m unconcerned by how many civilians we kill; yet I’m also a better human than you because I believe in protecting our unborn, and on and on.
LOL! I can’t believe I didn’t include that! That “vetting a nanny” line in the article is pure comic gold – a gift that keeps on giving!
BTW, I assume that it is important to 1) not pay the nanny tax, and 2) not pay the nanny enough to be able to afford (private) healthcare, and 3) not provide her with the ability to be home with enough time to get dinner on the table for her spouse.
In other words, I guess that vetting the nanny means ensuring that they aren’t good Republicans.
Yes, I think “Vetting the nanny” has a special place up there with “Hiking the Appalachian Trail”, eh, UI? (or to make you feel more at home,”UI, eh?”) And yes, MR. UI is right abote Canadians and clothes. Why do you think hockey jerseys are called “sweaters”? What’s more comfy than a big ole sweater?
As for this piece of crap of an article (and the midset behind it), it can be explained very simply with two facts — 1) the conservative movement is primarily controlled by men, and 2) all men have within them a 12 year old boy who prefers to see women as little more than what are often refered to as “boobies”. Most men, soon after not being 12, are able to suppress this. Some aren’t. The less you are around females, the harder it is to lose this outlook. If there is one thing a big group of 12 year old men like to do, it’s to nominally include an attractive set of said “boobies” in their group for a while, hence the hiring of “strippers”. That’s pretty much what Palin, Coulter, Malkin, and the assorted FOX and morning MSNBC blondes are — the strippers hired by the conservative “party” to entertain them for a while.
As the mother of a 12 year old boy I resent that. 😉 Stupid is ageless.
Are the MSNBC morning blonds conservative? (Johnny Carson voice) I did not know that.
I don’t think I can even reply to the article, pandora, except by echoing Geezer. “Takes a special kind of stupid.” *head shake*
I think physical age does have something to do with it. An attractive woman said to me at a nightclub last week, “I’ll do anything you want for $100.00”. I asked her to paint my house.
‘ta-ching’
Clever, Dave. What I wonder is how these men view their daughters/sisters? In high heels?
The article is beyond stupid, and I’d love a Republican woman’s perspective. Where’s Joanne when you need here? Especially given the way our Republican male commenters have commented.