Posted on 12/19/2013 7:02:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The part of this week's conservative straw-man is being played, appropriately enough, by a stock photo. "Pajama boy," as the young bespectacled man the Obama administration chose for its latest health care PSA has come to be known, has swiftly become a figure of delighted outrage on the right. He has been the subject of no fewer than three articles in the National Review, plus an essay in Politico Magazine by the National Review's Rich Lowry. Lowry lays out the conservative perception of the stock-photo model he terms an "insufferable-man-child":
Pajama Boy is about as threatening as Michael Cera and so nerdy he could guest-host on an unwatched MSNBC show. He is probably reading The Bell Jar and looking forward to a hearty Christmas meal of stuffed tofurkey. If he has anything to say about it, Obamacare enrollments will spike in the next few weeks in Williamsburg and Ann Arbor.
Perhaps the goal of OFA was to create a readily mockable image to draw attention to its message, in which case Pajama Boy was a brilliantly successful troll. The right immediately Photoshopped him into the Mandela funeral selfie and emblazoned his photo with derisive lines like, “Hey girl, I live with my parents,” and, “How did you know I went to Oberlin?”
Lowry goes on to connect what he characterizes as an immature version of masculinity with a liberal's overreliance on a paternalistic government. "Pajama Boy’s mom probably still tucks him in at night, and when she isn’t there for him, Obamacare will be," he writes. Millennials and Democrats just love their mommies too much! But while this is a ritual mockery that's ostensibly about Obamacare, what it really reveals is a long-boiling, deep-seated-fear on the right of the moment when a more beta-appearing-man becomes the mainstream notion of masculinity....
(Excerpt) Read more at newrepublic.com ...
Ah, that's how women come naturally, but one of the effects of hormonal contraceptive is to change that so that women taking them tend to prefer more effeminate men. (Okay, I just realized, maybe I was wrong that the only reason for the actuarially absurd contraceptive mandate was to poke a sharp stick in the eye of the Latin church, maybe it's also supposed to help Pajamaboy and his ilk get laid.)
No, I think Leonard, for all his faults, has about 1,000 times the amount of testosterone that Pajama Boy has.
You're being unfair. Leonard is too masculine to be compared with Pajama Boy.
Of course that guy freaks me out LOOK AT HIM..he just screams PEDOPHILE
Exactly. Japanese men have lost a lot of their masculinity which is part of the reason nobody there is having sex.
What's he going to do, annoy me so much with his wussiness that I kill myself? Others have tried, and so far I'm the one that's survived.
First sentence is factually wrong. The photo is not a stock photo. As reported on FR, the person in the photo is a OFA operative named Ethan Krupp.
I don't have enough scorn my my entire psyche to express the stupidity of this statement.
Looks a little like Alessandro Juliani of BSG/Smallville & other sci-fi ...
12??! How about 3? If my parents tried to get me to wear Dr. Dentons when I was 12, there’d have been a mutiny! Come to think of it, I don’t think I even wore them when I was 3.
Actually, the photo is of an Organizing for Action (OFA) staffer. It is NOT a "stock photo".
The remainder of the article is just as false.
Pajamaboyphobia sweeps the nation! /sarc
That looks disturbingly like a photo from a Rocky Horror Picture Show revival!
“Of course that guy freaks me out LOOK AT HIM..he just screams PEDOPHILE”
That was MY first thought when I saw him too. Looks like a predator about to pounce on a little boy.
Gross
I'll bet his fantasy girlfriend has a great collection of strap ons.
He’d seem geeky but normal if it weren’t for those huge mascara swoops. The devil can’t hide it.
scared?
lolz
rofl
He is so frightening in his onesie pajamas, I bet it even includes the scary footies...
Based on the ads aimed at young people, it’s insulting to see what the White House thinks of that generation.
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