Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>> Let me be a contrarian here. I think men are being unfair and
>> sexist when they substitute mockery of the looks of women like,
>> say, Madeleine Albright and Janet Reno for criticism of their
>> politics -- since they have never traded on their looks. It is also
>> unfair and sexist that men on the Right have made Jane Fonda an
>> object of their obsessive hatred, mainly because she was (and still
>> is) such a beautiful woman, and right-wing men can't forgive her for
>> punctuating their fantasy, even though what she said and did as an
>> anti-war activist was far from the most outrageous and accounts of
>> her activism show her to be a modest person who was trying to be
>> just one of the activists as opposed to wielding her glamor to grab
>> power in the anti-war movement.
>
Yes, and remember that her activism, such as it was included taking off
her falsies and turning down the volume on her Vadim-induced Barbarella
looks.
>> In the case of Ann Coulter, however, there is no denying that her
>> looks is part of her political package created by herself and others
>> on the Right, i.e., her selling point is that "a woman who looks
>> like _that_ is saying things like _these_." I supposed that all
>> beauties are conventional, but her alleged "beauty" comes close to
>> the empress's clothes: the Right tries to not only browbeat us into
>> accepting her politics as worth considering but compel us into
>> admiring her looks as "gorgeous." If some men object to the
>> inflation of both her politics and looks, is it necessarily sexism?
>
Very true. Most of the shots on her website are pinup girl shots and
what they say is not only that "a woman who looks like _that_ is
saying things like _these_" but that a woman with a very respectable
education and male-size ambition should appeal to the general public
primarily by means of her "looks."
Joanna
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