"Dowd: Bush Too Butch; Needs a 'Queer Eye' Makeover"

ChronWatch ^ | 8/4/03 | Jean Shaw

[cjshapi]

No makeover. I like men to look and act like men.

[Enterprise]

"also need flashing eyes and a pleasant personality...oh, and a fertile womb."

Well, I'm waiting for the punch line - something like, "And when the Cubs win the world series."

[Steve_Seattle]

I get very bored and tired with the media's obsession with homosexuality. For something that is supposed to be so private, they insist that it always be talked about and in my face, and that I pay my obeisances to it. I actually think that most gays would be disappointed if they were told, "You know, I really don't give a s**t what you do behind closed doors. Got it? Now shut up and get on with your life, and stop preaching to me and get out of my face. Fair enough?" But that wouldn't be good enough, because they are diseased, self-centered, sick people, who won't be happy until they punish everyone who won't affirm their disease. They are crypto-fascists.

[Modernman]

OK freepers...how would YOU give Dubya a makeover?

Ummm.... Bush wears hand-tailored suits prepared by a French tailor in Washington who has made suits for Presidents, diplomats and kings. He buys shoes in the $1000 range. I wish I could afford to dress like him. Dowd wouldn't know class if it bit her in the ass.

[4mycountry]

Me? On "Queer Eye"? I dunno, man....

[Mr. Jeeves]

On the defense secretary: ''In his own sort of antediluvian way, Rummy is a metrosexual. He works. He may be a warmonger, he may be intemperate, but just about every third woman I know wants him.''

Every third woman wants him because he is the antithesis of a metrosexual.

[altura]

Right as always, your highness!

[Terriergal]

Heh!!

[small_l_libertarian]

Every third woman wants him because he is the antithesis of a metrosexual.

Yup. (Manly men rock!)

[Steve_Seattle]

"Am I the only freeper who thinks Maureen Dowd has lost it? Am I naive in thinking her puerile and vapid observations may eventually rankle the New York Times, which takes its liberalism very seriously?",BR>
If you have read any of The Times recent editorials, they are as bad and as vapid and as moronic as anything Dowd writes, so they probably think she's a genius.

[Terriergal]

Dowd too butch

heh!

Come to think of it, when is a man ever 'too butch.'???!!

[Lunatic Fringe]

Why excerpt an article and leave out just the last sentence?!?!

[Terriergal]

I get very bored and tired with the media's obsession with homosexuality

You noticed that too huh? Pedophiles are next, just watch.

They always need someone to crusade for, but it can't be a group that's experiencing real oppression.

[MEG33]

Great pics.Dowd is daffy!Bush needs no makeover!

[cajungirl]

What is a metrosexual? I seem to have missed out on a cultural phenomena what with being married to a hypermasculine old duffer.

[sticker]

Are you volunteering to check?

[boxerblues]

I've never seen the show and probably never will as I am not "keeper of the remote" in our house.

Personally I prefer a swagger to a bounce when someone walks.

[MEG33]

It's something new. My eyes glaze over when I see it and I never did read the definition.

[Charles Martel]

The New York Times' Maureen Dowd, whose columns just ooze liberal smugness, chalks up President Bush’s opposition to gay marriage to him being too ''butch.''

I thought "butch" was a term that was used when referring to an overly "masculine" woman or a man who "plays for the other team" or "putts from the rough". I've never heard it used when describing a heterosexual man. Dowd is just assisting in "mainstreaming" homosexual slang. I've got a few slang terms which I'd happily apply to ol' Maureen, but the forum rules prohibit such language.

Y'know, I don't recall Dowd complaining about Gore's airbrush-enhanced "package" on the cover of the Rolling Stone. Perhaps she stayed her poison pen because she knew Al was a big nancy-boy.

[Grit]

Metrosexual! It's buzz-word-rific!

http://www.wordspy.com/words/metrosexual.asp