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An unexpected low for Salon. I cannot believe Joan Walsh approved this.
Mrs. Obama's badonk, adonk or not, is not a suitable topic for discussion. That the writer is pleased to find a first lady she can relate to, however superficially, is fine and dandy. Good for her. But the silly and frankly stupid stereotype of the large African-American behind as the jumping off point (great imagery there) for an article about that presumed empathy is not worthy of publication here.
I don't care how many women, whatever race, can relate. They can discuss it over coffee or maybe, maybe, on 'The View'. The fact that I am an anglo male does not make my opinion on this subject moot. What is next? As many have suggested here, an article by Christopher Hitchens on the subject of large genitals, a condition which he presumes to share with the president elect? The cultural impact of Laura Bush's nipples does seem to have gone uncommented upon- maybe we can dig up an old Molly Ivins piece on the topic.
I understand that this was supposed to be a jolly and irreverent comment on the new and sort of astonishing political landscape we happily find ourselves in today. But it comes off as puerile in the extreme. King Kaufman must have shot milk out of his nose when he saw this.
