Hate Them Because They’re Beautiful
22nd May 2012
Freeberg waxes philosophical, and makes some very good points.
With that in mind, then, now consider my complaint about women who have real power — women who can argue with others about what is to happen to my health care, my taxes, and the products I require, from bullet cartridges to light bulbs. It is a close-cousin complaint of “Real women don’t look like that,” with two important differences: One, rather than being beautiful, they’re all ugly. Opposite direction, but equal distance. Even greater distance, really. I can go out on a weekend, shopping, meeting random people — I’m very, very sure I will catch a glimpse of some women who look like Megyn Kelly before I meet even one that looks like Donna Shalala, Janet Reno, Sonia Sotomayor, Geraldine Ferarro, Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Madeleine Albright.
Second difference: These ugly broads have real power. Gretchen Carlson can’t make me do a damn thing, other than occasionally wish some centerpiece on the coffee table would be moved slightly out of the way. Can’t stop me from doing anything. Can’t make anything I buy any harder to get, or more expensive…she can’t even start to do any of these things.
May 22nd, 2012 at 18:41
I suppose if we slapped them around more often, they’d be too busy recuperating and wouldn’t have time for healthcare, taxes, etc.
May 22nd, 2012 at 18:50
Well, maybe not.
I was in your inner city, at some time in the past, when I heard a tire squeal. I look out of the window and there was car in the middle of the road, sideways. Accident I thought. Well, no, a woman gets out. Then a another car screeches to a stop, as she had blocked the road. Guy gets out. She commences to gesticulate and scream at the fellow, and attempts to open hand him; thus demonstrating her power over the road and his movement and his body. He, being a healthy fellow, fells her with a might right hook. He gets back in his car and with some maneuvering and tire squealing goes on his way. She picks herself up, takes her shirts off, for purpose of quelling the copious amounts of blood she is leaking, and pursues him in her car.
This woman was bound and determined to exercise her power.
May 23rd, 2012 at 08:18
Was there a point to this article? Other than whining about the fact that powerful women don’t look good?
Sounds like the same complaint as the affirmative-action crowd, that of course there must be an entire pool of gorgeous women out there who have the balls and talent and smarts to do the job; you just haven’t looked hard enough to find them.
Has it never occurred to Freeberg that beautiful women don’t have to aspire to political power, as they already have an intrinsic power which they have cultivated and which works just fine for them? (I don’t include Palin in this calculation, as I personally don’t find her attractive, although many men do. Why is a mystery. But as was once opined by an old man to a young man, “Son, not every man wants the same things in a woman. If they did, they’d all be chasing your grandmother.”)