Posted on 12/29/2013 8:00:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservatives are in a tizzy over a seemingly innocuous Obamacare ad from Organizing for Action featuring a young man in pajamas.
He’s “a metrosexual hipster in a plaid onesie” scowled National Review’s Charles Cooke, a “vaguely androgynous, student-glasses-wearing, Williamsburg hipster.” He’s also “carefully ambi-racial.”
Pajama boy can’t even fight, Cooke’s colleague, Jim Geraghty, surmises. “My money is on the guy from Big Bang Theory once they throw down in a slap fight,” writes Geraghty, a grown man calling someone else a child as he imagines a fight between two fictional characters.
“An insufferable man-child,” writes Rich Lowry at Politico, who “might be glad to pay more for his health insurance to include maternity benefits he doesn’t need as a blow against gender stereotyping.” What kind of man thinks women shouldn’t have to pay more for health insurance because of their ladyparts anyway?
How could the sight of an earnest twenty something in pajamas drive so many dashing specimens of unassailable masculinity to complete panic? The paradox of our gender enforcers that they never sound more terrified than when addressing a person who doesn’t fit their standards. It’s an abject terror that masquerades as courage, relying on the reader not to know the difference. Pajama Boy is both a weak, effeminate symbol to be mocked, and the unstoppable 200-foot tall Kaiju wrecking their shining city on a hill....
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Freaking out??
We are laughing hysterically over it.
Yawn.
Hey MSNBC, hire me, I can write pointless crap as good as anyone.
I’m terrified!
There were times I almost choked on coffee LOL at the jokes this generated. ;-)
Why do these idiots always confuse disdain or ridicule with fear of some strain of anxiety?
That’s what I thought - it was laughable. It’s hard to believe they don’t get that. It was so funny that at first, everyone thought it wasn’t even real.
He sure didn’t look like “a young man in pajamas to me”. He looked liked Rachel Maddow.
Fear OR some strain of anxiety...
Freaked out? Only in the sense of being amazed that someone thought it was a good idea.
I think Adam has a secret crush on PJ Boy. (Does PMSNBC have an endless stable of these twits?)
This “gender neutrality” has to stop. I’m raising two great boys and I LOVE it when they say to me.....”that’s gay”. Then I know.......I’ve done my job. ;-)
They all well aware of the “gender neutral” crap being spewed in the media. I (and they) celebrate them being boys who will be MEN.
I thought the kid was cool for a 17 yr old.
“Pajama Boy is yet another emblem of an increasingly non-white electorate”
The usual lame, obligatory race card play mixed with pseudo-Freudian penis envy insinuations.
Lots of words.
Nothing of intellectually honest import actually said.
Blah blah blah.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.
The author was obviously paid by the word.
The only one ‘panicking’ is the Pajama Boy himself, who’s gone in the hiding. And the author of this screed.
Projection.
We scare them snotless.
PANIC? We are simply laughing ourselves silly over this portrayal of what the Obama admin thinks will make people rush to sign up to Obamacare. It is even more funny when, in another add, PJ boy slices his hand open while cutting up a miniature “turkey” or game hen with an overlarge knife.
Doncha just love the spin they put on it? Any time we even mention a topic (any topic will do) they hyperventilate that we’re “obsessing”, “panicking”, or “freaking out”.
More Liberal Projection.
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