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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Big white women are just fat asses while big black women have a great booty.
I just did an image search on the Obama's wedding photos because I was curious about all this crap about Michelle's hair. In one photo was the bridal couple and their mothers. Ann Dunham was fat. Very fat.
Therefore, I am looking forward to a body pride article on fat women.
Don't hold your breath. We love to hate fat women. We love to hate old women. We love to hate women who seek political power for themselves -- especially if they are so presumptuous as to attempt to parlay on first lady status.
Salon just put the first nail in Michelle Obama should she ever seek political power for herself. We now know her as someone who has been reduced to a BUTT.
So Salon has not only cheapened the debate about race, but they have engaged in sexism. Unfortunately, the only way to correct this sexism is to begin running articles on male politicians' body parts. And no, I am not talking about Obama's ears. We ALL know where this could lead in an article about Barack Obama and it is nothing to do with his ears because a sexual body part can only be countered with another sexual body part.
Why is it that only women get reduced to body parts in contexts that should have nothing to do with sex?
Michelle Obama will be our first lady. It is hardly an enviable position, since it results in critiques which to woman is powerless to control and no pay whatsoever. Salon is leading the way with sexism.
First, they pick on her choice to focus upon her daughters in the time of transition. Since Obama will be too busy, someone has to take up the slack. (I trust he will remember that he also only gets to be a father once and will pace himself so that he can be both a good father and president.) Then they highlight her ass.
If Salon is attempting to emulate Vanity Fair, I just want to say that Vanity Fair at least knows when to keep tongue in cheek, and the writing is much better.
Now about that image search on Michelle's hair. It appears that she has had a variety of hairdos. It trust she won't make Hillary's mistake of trying six more in one presidential term. If she does, she will be lacerated. But even if she does, she does not owe something as personal as a hairdo to either black people or white people. Let her choose her own.
Pathetic as this article is; Joan Walsh's defence is even worse. Do detractors of this kind of sillyness really advocate
a terrible world were we will miss all those great exchanges we had about Laura Bush's rear end? If not, what is being narrowed?
Obama supporters who revel in this kind of sub-Paglia drivel are simply every bit as stupid and hopeless as any dittohead. Meanwhile, Salon continues it's silence on issues you might THINK a progressive would be interested in: The Working Poor, The Death Penalty, The Heath Care System, the Military Industrial Complex, etc.
Here in the brave new Obama Nation, Celebrity crap and sexy baby talk still rule the day....
"How sad that, in order for a black family to prevail -- because Michelle and the girls were all running for office, not just Barack -- they had to sublimate their blackness like crazy, starting with the visuals. Michelle's ethnic butt might have snuck under the radar, but an ethnic do wouldn't have stood a chance."
You know, you make it sound like these people deliberately "disguised" themselves for their entire adult lives in order to get to the White House and the rest of the world didn't know they are black! "Oh yeah, they be black. They just acting like they white for the white folks." You would probably be depressed to learn their's wasn't an act.
I would bet there will be few changes with either of their attire, hair, and make-up after January 2009. And it won't be to please the white folk. It will be because THEIR preference to look, act, and dress as they do.
I can understand your pride. But, girl, you are delirious.
...all of the letter writers threatening to cancel their subscriptions will follow through.
I guess I was wrong. I want the 10 minutes of my life back that I spent reading that article. Seriously - if this article had been printed anywhere else, the good writers of Broadsheet would have been quick to announce their disgust (rightfully so, in my mind).
While I'm getting good and worked up, does Ms. Kaplan write about anything but butts? Someone should tell her about the heartbreak of being typecast.
Finally, about those Editor's Choice selections - over 270 letters to the editor about this article. Per my quick persusal, a majority of those shared my low opinion of it. Fourteen selected as Editor's Choice, and ALL BUT ONE LOVED IT? Self-justifying, much? Who did the selecting, the author? Come on, folks, some of us only have time to read the EC letters. You ought to make an effort to showcase a variety of thoughts about the article - not just the ones you agree with.
AKA - I agree with your post (the long one, not the sonfloud smack down though I agree with that as well.) This isn't the forum this kind of discussion. I don't think its a Penthouse article or Larry Flynt (it's not pornographic for god's sake) but it is in poor taste and inappropriate for a woman of Michelle's obvious capabilities.
I read a post earlier on another website about Mrs. Obama's fashion sense where the writer said she looked more like south side street walker than a First Lady.(?!) So, yeah, maybe we should just leave comments about her appearance (and her ghetto booty) to the racist mofos. I mean, what was this author thinking? Just cause you and your girlfriends are happy the first lady has a little junk in her trunk doesn't mean you need to make it the basis of friggin story!
I don't understand why the editors chose to run this article. At times, Salon kind of reminds me of the way FOX, whenever they have a "darkey" issue, runs out and gets Al Sharpton to be the voice of black America. I mean, I seriosuly wouldn't piss on that man if he was on fire and despite what the mainstream media says, he's not the most popular man in the black community. Heck, I don't know who he is, but Sharpton makes most of my black family and friends want to gouge their eyes out.
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