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Ok, so what if Michele Bachmann looks like she skipped out on taking her meds on that Newsweek Magazine cover. Yeah, yeah. I know you could’ve taken a hotter photo but you’re not running for office. (Are you?). I was VP of a nonprofit arts organization that ran on a shoestring budget and backroad policies. So, we couldn’t afford glamour shots, much less, plan how to get organized as a group to take one. Believe me folks, having a little stint in the VP seat gives me the insights on what position’s all about (putting my thumbs under my suspenders and letting the straps pop proudly against my shoulders). Yes siree, buddy.
See, at first, I didn’t understand the hoopla surrounding that photo. I thought they had photoshopped her to look like a man. If that was the case, and being the southern belle I am, I’d be so upset, I’d crawl under a rock and come out when night falls. Shit, I’d be on the serious downlow, and drinking the hell outta some Incognito.
But that wasn’t the case. The picture was really her, so here lies my question with those folk who’s got a problem with the magazine cover. Ain’t it a whole lot better seeing folk as they are rather than seeing them dolled up all the time? I know, I know. I’m contradicting myself back when I wrote In Sickness and in Vanity but hell, I ain’t running, walking or begging to be in no oval office either. If that heifer’s got some demonic or psychotic tendencies, I say snap the hell outta that button on the camera and show my ass what the real deal is on her. Shiiiiiit. I’ve told y’all I don’t want no woman in that oval office no how. I mean, you’ll never satisfy a feminist, I don’t care what you do.
If Bachmann hadn’t graced any magazine cover, they would’ve been bitching about that. Now, she’s all on the cover and being her own damn self and they’re talking about Newsweek should’ve made her look cuter. Shit, she’s the one who cheesed up for the camera. I didn’t identify a gun being nowhere near her head to make her look that way. Me being anti-feminist and all, I wouldn’t care if they put a nippled bra on her and showed some cleavage. Now, I would’ve identified with her a helluva lot quicker than her wearing that dark, man-like suit.
I’ve seen some mugshots taken of some male candidates but I never heard anybody crying and whining about it. Those feminists are something else and I want some duct tape wrapped tightly around their mouths to stop all that yackety yacking. The way I see it, if it takes something as superficial as vanity to get their thongs in a bunch, I have to question how feminist they really are.
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—Tots,
Here’s what one of my fave sites “Hello Ladies” said about the photo: ”
——The issue isn’t that Bachmann doesn’t look attractive. It’s that she looks unstable – and the Newsweek editorial team chose that photo out of possibly hundreds taking during the shoot. The media makes choices. What choices are they making when they feature a woman running for office, or running a company or even running a family? And how do those choices affect how we think about women and power?”
Just another perspective.
Love ya, Totty!
Well, maybe Bachmann should’ve read up on my In Sickness and Vanity post, which one of those rules was to practice how to look. In that case, she couldn’t afford to practice in front of folk whose primary mission is to sell magazines. I gather that cover sold plenty.
Now, to rebut “Hello Ladies” statement, who among us haven’t had an unstable moment in time. This was Bachmann’s. Secondly, it’s Newsweek’s magazine and they can choose whatever photo they wanna. I’d do the same if it were mine. Didn’t Oprah?
My thing is this. Bachmann chose the game, it didn’t choose her. If women can’t stand the stank, they need to go back in the kitchen. Her looking that way says nothing more to me than she just took a bad picture. We know she’s got some smarts. I give her that. I think she’s a helluva lot smarter than that Palin woman and I don’t think she’s getting punched any harder than a male candidate who’s ever run for office.
Go tell’m that.
Love ya back!
Tots,
!!! xxxx
Well, I can see you know your shit
You should run for something, girlfriend!!
I can’t stop laughing, Totsy Mae…FUNNN-KNEEE!!!!
Have you stopped laughing yet?
I probably have a little too much time on my hands this weekend. I’m stepping away from the laptop for a minute.
Honestly, I don’t know why anybody would what this job, no matter what you do, or not do, you get criticized anyway!
You’re right, It’s a tough job to take on and criticism comes with the territory.
Michele Bachmann is a problem…with or without the wild-ass scary-shit eyes. If she is going to be running for president someone needs to follow close behind with her pill dispenser. It’s not that I don’t think she has some valid points…but what was she thinking running for the big wig job married to a man who thinks he can change gays to straight. What is frightening is she won Iowa Straw Poll. Nice post, Totsymae! You are definitely on a roll!
I saw a news show where some gays that were “healed” became depressed over the conversion that fell thru and committed suicide. Very sad.
Thank you, Annie.
Annie, you could lend a good voice to the politicians running. I’d be interested in hearing it.
lol…if i keep shaking my head at you ppl will guess my ethnicity is indian (oh and clever wording with the suspender pop)
Hey, my FB girlfriend. Us southern girls know about suspenders (and overalls too)
Thanks for swinging by, I know you’re a busy woman and all.
Have you got a link? Here in the UK we haven’t heard of her or this story.
http://michelebachmann.com is her campaign website and you can see the Newsweek cover here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek.html
I thought we had gone from the women-had-to-dress-like-a-man-to-be-taken-seriously era. The color of the suit is probably what made her look the way she looks. I didn’t notice any difference with how she normally looks.
The issue for me isn’t how she looks on NW, it’s what she and her husband represent. That scares me more that someone who’s running for higher office is married to someone who believes he can change people. So after he changes gays to straight, what or who will he try to change next?
And if she’s married to someone who thinks like that, where does she stand? I’ll bet my bottom dollar, it’s right next to him.
She looked both masculine and crazed. Like Annie stated, it’s frightening. What I wanna know is why the heck the media is turning to Palin as to her opinion of Bachmann. Now, duct tape would come in real handy there.
I completely agree with you, but more than that I LOVE YOUR WRITING! It is smart, sassy, brilliant, and captivating. I think I love you…yes, that is a tear of joy trickling down my cheek!
Thank you, Sandra. I appreciate such nice comments. I love you back and your website. You have a lot of good energy.
I thought it was a good picture. I thought she was looking into a bright future for the country, something like that. It would never have occurred to me that she looked crazy if I hadn’t read that she did.
I probably would agree with you, had i not heard the controversy
surrounding it. It becomes what people say it is the more you look
at it, I guess. Media persuasion.
I think the word “Rage” beneath the picture colored the way people looked at the picture. I focused on the picture first and then, quite frankly, moved on and picked up a New Yorker.
Maybe Hubby’s “healing the community” tainted her a bit, so what
better way than to stick a less attractive photo on the cover of a
someone trying to inspire the country. Whatever
Newsweek meant to do by using the photo, they did. The words
certainly helped with that.