Posted on 02/20/2005 10:36:59 AM PST by gopwinsin04
At the dawn of feminism, there was an assumption that women would not be as severely judged on their looks in ensuing years. Phooey. It's just the opposite.
Looks matter more than ever, with more and more women spending fortunes turning themselves into generic, plastic versions of what they think men want, reaching for eerily similar plumped up faces and body shapes.
Pretty soon, we will be back into the era when flight attendants--or shall I say stewardesses-- are canned when they gain a few pounds.
The New York Post reported that Boragta Hotel and Spa in Atlantic City would start weighing all of its waitresses and those who gain more than 7 pounds will lose their jobs unless they get rid of the weight.
Consider this gender differentation: A georgeous fit guy who sleeps with overweight women is throwing himself 'on the grenade' for the team. A georgeous fit girl who sleeps with an overweight unattractive man is lucky to have found romance in 'Sideways' and 'Hitch.'
In Neil Labute's play 'Fat Pig' Jeremy Piven's character drops an overweight woman--even after she offers to staple her stomach-- he likes simply because he cannot bear his friends mockery of him. TV is full of 'Beauty and the Beast' pairings, with fat lazy husbands and foxy, impressive wives.
One thing is sure though. Guys who look at fat women as [romantic] 'slump busters' are fatheads.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Now I get it. Now I know why Maureen Dowd writes derisively about no-nonsense men like Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and George Bush. There is an explanation for her snide, inane, bitter, angry, man-hating rhetoric that's on display twice a week.
She's figured out Michael Douglas used her as a "slump-buster". (Read the column and you'll know what I mean-wonder if she was "road-beef" too?) Well, for Michael Douglas it worked out. He sure as hell broke out of his slump after "taking a grenade for the team", er, dating Maureen.
I take it MoDo was dumped...again.
She's not going out with Aaron Sorkin anymore that we know for sure..
Check out fredoneverything.net for a pretty funny response to her and her ilk. I fell out laughing.
For the love of God! Will somebody in NY please sleep with this woman so she can remove that stick that's rammed in her ass! There are other topics to write about MoDo.
Rant over, feel better :)
LOL!
It's 10:42 AM PST and Maureen Dowd is still looking for her first sexual experience.
Talk about "taking one in the shorts".
Thank you, that's exactly why I'm willing to click on a Dowd column.
<_<.. I'll be back in a couple minutes.
Now I understand why Sorkin was on drugs.
It's clear Ms. Dowd believes the empty page is a canvas upon which to paint the effluent of her mid life crises.
Maureen, a word of advice - put down the bottle of whiskey and throw out the celebrity magazines with the pictures of Michael Douglas in them. Then realise being a bitter, twisted ratbag isn't going to make your bed any warmer.
Regards, Ivan
Aaron Sorkin supposedly dumped MoDo, although we dont know the exact cause yet..he probably just forgot about her while on a schroom binge!
And she knows this because?
Dowd condems Larry Summers' "condescending musings" on the variability of aptitude between men and women. Yet she has absolutely no problem accepting that men are inherently more oafish than women, and liable to commit the kinds of "gaffes" she describes.
You can't have it both ways Maureen. Are men and women identical or not? Why would it surprise you to learn that the sex that has the unique ability to bear children is inherently more caring and sensitive?
Similarly, why would it come as a shock that the sex that had to leave the cave and track down game and invent ways to kill it would be better at spacial relations and engineering?
Because she was Mickey Douglas' sexual 'slumpbuster' before the main event of CZJ?
You mean this Fred Reed column:
http://fredoneverything.net/FOE_Frame_Column.htm
Yeah, that is a great one.
Ms. Dowd seems to have the same problem as many others of the chattering class of increasingly irrelevent "journalists". They cannot tell a television show from reality. After whining about women killing themselves to look good, she immediately starts talking about television shows. BTW, Mo, most women try to look good to impress other women, not men. Men also hit the weight room and build up biceps to impress other men. It's not a homosexual thing, it's a competition thing.
Not a big fan of Fred Reed, but I enjoyed that one.
Perhaps she is upset nobody will admit to dating her?
Seriously is she fat or something?
My team would have to have a losing streak going of Prairie View proportions (80 straight) for me to consider falling on a Dowdian grenade!
Northeast of Capitol Hill proper, French's Fine Southern Cuisine (tel 396 0991, 1365 H St NE) is a good stop for cheap breakfasts and lunches of Southern chicken, meatloaf, and tastier-than-it-sounds 'road beef.'
I think Maureen makes some good points. Jose Canseco does sound like a first rate A-hole. And any media chick willing to smack down the overrated "sideways" is O.K. by me. Maureen's tough. A kitten with a mean pen. I generally respect her even when I disagree with her.
If you do, strap a board across your bum so you don't fall in.
Mark Grace gets really cold busted in the Canseco book! I used to watch him play at Wrigley..
No danger of this on Northwest airlines, the fattest, oldest Stews...er, flight attendants in the business.
Its that only comic scenario: women who see a beautiful woman walk into the room/bar will imediatly condemn her and pick her appart. (heaven forbid if she is a celebrity too) If a handsom man walks into the room, the men will either not register his presence or do an inventory combat check comparison. (if he is famous, they might even buy him a beer.)
It must really tick the feminsts off that women still look pretty instead of ugly like them.
And where is the criticism of the women who allowed themselves to be used and discarded like Kleenex?
Her period key must have stopped working.
but are they friendly and do their job with a smile. I would gladly trade a pretty stewardess with a piss poor attituted for an older one with a pleasant disposition.
"Mark Grace gets really cold busted in the Canseco book"
fame does twisted things to people whether they're ball players, actors, journalists or politicians. Sometimes they need to get smacked around a little.
I dunno. She sounds like she's always on her period to me.
Ouch.
"A georgeous fit guy who sleeps with overweight women is throwing himself 'on the grenade' for the team.
Maureen is approaching excellence and doesn't even know it! Put a FReeper watch on her and send Ann Coulter in for "advanced training". LOL!
You can translate this column down to a sentence or two: "I'm a brilliant, accomplished, feminist professional with a high salary and widespread name recognition among those who count. How come I can't get a serious date?"
In fact, that's pretty much what all Maureen's columns are about, one way or another. It's "I don't get no respect," without the laughs.
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Dowd has a grudge against men in general and George W. Bush in particular. What is there to respect about this hectoring harridan, this coarse crone, this shrewish slattern, this tasteless termagant, this vicious virago?
Gracie was on the juice? I thought the only performance enhancers he took were "slumpbusters".
No, in the middle of a slump the team would force Gracie to pick up a less than attractive willing female to exorcise the team demons..talk about being a good wingman!
You say she's looking for a beef injection??
Enough with the Hillary bashing!
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