Apparently the new line in right-wing humor is that real men vote for John McCain because nothing says vigor and masculinity like marrying an heiress.
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nothing says vigor and masculinity like marrying an heiress.
What does this say about Laura Bush, though?
After all, she married an heiress.
"nothing says vigor and masculinity like marrying an heiress."
If he married Angelina Jolie, I'd be impressed. Otherwise, not so much.
I'd be even more impressed if he could show the knife scars Angie leaves on him.
Not to mention that it's not that hard to marry a crack whore, er, drug abuser like Cindy.
Nothing saysa vigor and masculinity like rape jokes
Of course, the Rethuglicans didn't think that Senator John Kerry, who also married an heiress, was a real man.
My guess is that the subtext is supposed to be that powerful (i.e., independently wealthy) women need a Real Man to dominate them & put them in their appropriately subordinate place. Since Teresa Kerry was clearly still quite independent (and let's not forget that her money was inherited from a Republican husband, not parents), John Kerry hadn't mastered her properly.
It might be retrograde, but it's just hard to have much respect for a guy who lives off his own family, let alone his wife's family. I'm reminded of the disgust Anton Chigur showed at the gas station manager who was inherited the shop from his wife's family in No Country For Old Men.
It is rather passive to just get old and accept social security.
John McCain is a man of action, he actively hunted, stalked and married his social security.
Nothing saysa vigor and masculinity like rape jokes
There were not rape jokes. Richard Steven Hack's comments about "I'd be even more impressed if he could show the knife scars [Angelina Jolie] leaves on him" refers to her previously established kinky sex appetite with former husband Billy Bob Thornton.
But Richard Steven Hack is wrong to imply that Cindy McCain can be thought of as a "crack whore." Whatever her status on drug abuse, she could at best be a "crack Jane" (the female equivalent of a "John").
If there's a whore in that relationship, it's obviously not Cindy.
They're just trying to gloss over the fact that he's a little pansy rich boy and that it's little pansy rich boys who marry heiresses.
refers to her previously established kinky sex appetite with former husband Billy Bob Thornton.
Wha?
Are you referring to that they each wore a vial of each other's blood around their necks as a necklace? That's a little weird, but I don't think it quaifies as kinky sex.
Sounds more like the "previous establishment" you are referring to is just average-Joe conservatives thinking that Angelina and Billy Bob must have been involved in really kinky sex. I am not the biggest follower of entertainment news, but I really doubt that there was some story about Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob saying they liked really kinky sex or having really kinky sex that the media decided to be coy about waving in everyone's faces.
There were not rape jokes. Richard Steven Hack's comments
What are you babbling about Glaivster? I certainly were rape jokes and I certainly wasn't dignifying Hack by referring to his rantings. In case you've been in a cave the past couple of days McCain's telling a rape joke in a public forum back in 1986 is being widely reported. Keep up, please.
because nothing says vigor and masculinity like marrying an heiress.
A quick check-in with the scratch-and-burp contingent at the local corner bar suggests that McCain gets reprieve, since he did have the wherewithall to marry a beer heiress.
This isn't even the worst of it. The column that started this references Obama's foreign-sounding name as a reason not to vote for him. Nice bigotry that.
This isn't even the worst of it. The column that started this references Obama's foreign-sounding name as a reason not to vote for him. Nice bigotry that.
Obama has pretty much won over all of us in the skinny kid with a funny name demographic. Those of us who also have names similar to movie villains are going to be doubly as enthusiastic about his candidacy.
I certainly hope that not too many people other than the columnist will vote for McCain because of who he fell in love with or because his name rhymes with a Bruce Willis character.
However, I think there is a perception out there that liberals have a victim's mentality, blaming corporations or the Bush administration for everything. A "real man" probably wouldn't sue McDonald's for millions of dollars if he spilled hot coffee on himself. Democrats in Congress have been opposing tort reform which a lot of people feel would help stop ridiculous awards in our legal system and lower health care costs. I admit I think it's sad that everything you buy has silly warning stickers all over it because companies are afraid of getting sued.
I assumed the rape joke references were to McCain latest gaffes.
As for Angelina, I don't know if she ever did the knife bit with Thornton, but she is on record as using knife play with a boyfriend back when she was a teenager. See her interview with Lipton on "The Actor's Studio" on YouTube. She has scars to this day from that activity.
Also, the reference was to the fact that she's a pretty tough cookie that McCain probably couldn't handle. I can just imagine her and McCain re-enacting the scene in her current movie "Wanted" where she beats the crap out of a guy with brass knuckles. I mean, first McCain would call her a cunt in public like he did Cindy, then she'd go ape shit on him in private.
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Probably just trying to dodge people calling him a boytoy.
Posted by Swan | July 19, 2008 3:08 AM