When I was in DC for the Take America Back 2006 conference, I had drinks with a bunch of bloggers, including Jessica Valenti of Feministing. I found her to be both super-smart and super good looking. But I never expected that her breasts would become so famous. I also didn’t ask her why she had brought them with her.
Many right-wing bloggers are on “The Case of How a Pair of Breasts Got Into a Luncheon With Bill Clinton.” Amanda says:
Jessica’s Flickr pic has had 18,000 views, which is a testament to the fact that the wingnut readers are kind of sadly eager to see a woman with boobs in a cotton shirt. Get out of the basement, dudes.
Most outrageously, Althouse claims she’s a “feminist”, taking Jessica to task for having the nerve to smile for the camera and wear her breasts while doing so.
Gee, been a feminist for over 30 years, and can’t recall one conversation with other feminists where the topic come up “pretty girl in her twenties wearing short-sleeved shirt in warmish weather is baaaaaaad!”
No one, ever. Nowhere, no how. Not even close.
Other internecine battles maybe, but that one never came up, even at NOW meetings in the 1970s. And I also can’t recall an argument against the “three-quarter turn that would seem to showcase breasts, if only to nutcases.”
Not in Betty Friedan’s writing either, or Susan Faludi, or even Dworkin.
So it seems to me that those making such ridiculous arguments — ain’t feminists. That actual feminists have had more important issues to fight for 40 years, been too darn busy to be that assholic.
I guess it is inherently suspicious to be attractive. It means you are about to be exploited or something. It just expresses an unhealthy attitude about female sexuality. That and a general prurient interest that comes up whenever Bill Clinton is mentioned.
God forbid Clinton should ever be in a room anywhere with a pair of breasts! Obviously something’s up with that, eh?
Is this country EVER going to grow up? Can’t imagine why they wereen’t just as “taken” with the picture of “Dick” Cheney and his oversized “dick” that was making the rounds a year or so ago.
What a juvenile mentality this country seems to have about sex and body parts. And I hate to tell anyone this, but everyone has breasts. Some are just larger than others, some are female and some are male, Get over it. And who the heck cares.
This is such sick shit I can’t think of any other word for it: women have breats, men and women have genitals of different kinds and both have buttocks. Now what’s left! Is there any adult on earth who doesn’t know this? If there is, he or she is an idiot.
And I add: this is just another example of the right-wing push to revive the Monica Lewinsky affair: Clinton was distracted from the threat of terror by his libido, Clinton is a philanderer, put the blue dress with the cum stain in the Smithsonian Institution.
Just as Mike is released from 60 days house
arrest for painting “Troops Out Now!” on a
highway overpass, his book arrives from the publisher.
JUST RELEASED
Inside the Red Zone
A Veteran For Peace reports from Iraq, Mike Ferner.
That is unbelievable. The Althouse commentary is totally unrelated to the reality of the photo. Breasts – what breasts? Frankly, they don’t leap out at me.