MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
I remember when my mother saw her on tv and asked me who she was, she never watches that type of show other than CNN. She had commented "she's so pretty". I think she is too-now. But then she fit more into some stereotyped notion of beauty and apparently she doesn't now, so some people are freaking out? Her wit and intelligence makes her even more beautiful. And of course because she's gay, well the analysis of her looks goes into an even crazier dimension-ooh she "looked like a woman" back then lots o'lolz . And here I was thinking she looked exactly like a woman now, hmm.. Interesting how some people define what that is and think that every woman should fit into that.
Much Ado About Rachel Maddow's Smokin' Hotness
The reaction to Rachel Maddow's yearbook photo hit an all-time low when Senator David Vitter made some fantastic remarks on a Louisiana morning radio show about how crazy bizarre it is that Rachel Maddow ever passed for AN ACTUAL FEMALE:
MALE HOST: I wonder if Senator Vitter is ever going to post, like, maybe the video of the first time he was on the floor of the Senate. If I have to show the way I looked the first time I was on TV, you should do that too.
VITTER: We should go further back than that, how about high school yearbook?
MALE HOST: Oh yeah.
VITTER: De La Salle marching band.
MALE HOST: That'd be cool. Well you know, with Rachel Maddow they had that picture of her…
FEMALE HOST: Looking like a woman.
MALE HOST: Yeah it was really bizarre.
VITTER: [LAUGHS]: Must have been a long time ago.
ALL THREE: [HEAVY LAUGHTER]
Everyone freaked out and Vitter has since issued this post-it note sized apology letter:
Dear Rachel,
Regarding my remark during a radio conversation today, I apologize.
The hosts made their comment and I obviously chimed in. While we do not usually agree on the issues, I do not think you deserved that comment.
Sincerely,
David
"To queers, Rachel Maddow's photo might inspire a knowing smile or empathetic LOL. But amongst a certain kind of Conservative Human, it's inspired something else altogether: another chance to demonstrate their fundamental unease surrounding female masculinity by praising how "hot" Rachel could be if only she returned to pearls & a blowout. Judith Halberstam, in her book Female Masculinity, writes:
"The exclusion of butch women signals a widespread cultural anxiety about the potential effects of femaleness and masculinity. Presumably, female masculinity threatens the institution of motherhood: I suppose people think that if female masculinity is widely approved, then nobody will want to take responsibility for the trials and pains of reproduction."
The panic over a potential shift in our present gender paradigm underlies most homophobia these days, 'cause lawd knows what hell will break loose if women ever stop caring whether or not men could find them tappable.
In The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America, Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Brandt challenge the "Orwellian" "dissing" of women who forego traditionally feminine-associated beauty rituals:
"One of the lesbian qualities that apparently seems strangest to the rest of the world is that we don't all dress to please men. Even stranger-since the measure of women's attractiveness in our culture is attractiveness to men -some of us are actively drawn to women who don't bother to meet that standard of beauty…"
On "lesbian taste" in general:
If we had to make one other generalization about lesbian taste, it would be that a lot of us are powerfully attracted to women, gay or straight, beautiful or not, who look as if they can take care of themselves."
You know, a woman like Rachel Maddow: fully & unapologetically authentic and unequivocally successful entirely on her own terms. Rachel Maddow doesn't give a shit if you find her ‘tappable.' Maddow told The Voice: "I'm not Anchorbabe, and I'm never going to be. My goal is to do the physical appearance stuff in such a way that it is not comment-worthy."
Much Ado About Rachel Maddow's Smokin' Hotness
The reaction to Rachel Maddow's yearbook photo hit an all-time low when Senator David Vitter made some fantastic remarks on a Louisiana morning radio show about how crazy bizarre it is that Rachel Maddow ever passed for AN ACTUAL FEMALE:
MALE HOST: I wonder if Senator Vitter is ever going to post, like, maybe the video of the first time he was on the floor of the Senate. If I have to show the way I looked the first time I was on TV, you should do that too.
VITTER: We should go further back than that, how about high school yearbook?
MALE HOST: Oh yeah.
VITTER: De La Salle marching band.
MALE HOST: That'd be cool. Well you know, with Rachel Maddow they had that picture of her…
FEMALE HOST: Looking like a woman.
MALE HOST: Yeah it was really bizarre.
VITTER: [LAUGHS]: Must have been a long time ago.
ALL THREE: [HEAVY LAUGHTER]
Everyone freaked out and Vitter has since issued this post-it note sized apology letter:
Dear Rachel,
Regarding my remark during a radio conversation today, I apologize.
The hosts made their comment and I obviously chimed in. While we do not usually agree on the issues, I do not think you deserved that comment.
Sincerely,
David
"To queers, Rachel Maddow's photo might inspire a knowing smile or empathetic LOL. But amongst a certain kind of Conservative Human, it's inspired something else altogether: another chance to demonstrate their fundamental unease surrounding female masculinity by praising how "hot" Rachel could be if only she returned to pearls & a blowout. Judith Halberstam, in her book Female Masculinity, writes:
"The exclusion of butch women signals a widespread cultural anxiety about the potential effects of femaleness and masculinity. Presumably, female masculinity threatens the institution of motherhood: I suppose people think that if female masculinity is widely approved, then nobody will want to take responsibility for the trials and pains of reproduction."
The panic over a potential shift in our present gender paradigm underlies most homophobia these days, 'cause lawd knows what hell will break loose if women ever stop caring whether or not men could find them tappable.
In The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America, Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Brandt challenge the "Orwellian" "dissing" of women who forego traditionally feminine-associated beauty rituals:
"One of the lesbian qualities that apparently seems strangest to the rest of the world is that we don't all dress to please men. Even stranger-since the measure of women's attractiveness in our culture is attractiveness to men -some of us are actively drawn to women who don't bother to meet that standard of beauty…"
On "lesbian taste" in general:
If we had to make one other generalization about lesbian taste, it would be that a lot of us are powerfully attracted to women, gay or straight, beautiful or not, who look as if they can take care of themselves."
You know, a woman like Rachel Maddow: fully & unapologetically authentic and unequivocally successful entirely on her own terms. Rachel Maddow doesn't give a shit if you find her ‘tappable.' Maddow told The Voice: "I'm not Anchorbabe, and I'm never going to be. My goal is to do the physical appearance stuff in such a way that it is not comment-worthy."