They can’t even define ‘woman’
Remember when Newsweek was a respected news magazine that people actually took seriously?
Well, in the words of creative genius Stan Lee, “When Fall the Mighty.”
Earlier this week, Newsweek’s Marni Rose McFall thought it’d be a good idea to ask a cadre of progressive female academics about the alleged phenomenon of conservatives having an “obsession” with attractive women.
McFall can’t seem to grasp why those on the right have an affinity for stars like Sydney Sweeney, who’s not only beautiful but, for lack of a better term, has an ample chest — and isn’t shy about showing it.
Social media likewise has highlighted GOP stars like Florida’s Anna Paulina Luna (pictured), RNC national spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko, and U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert.
At least some of the academics McFall talked to figured out the obvious … but, naturally, they ended up chiding conservatives for their appreciation Sweeney’s (and others’) hotness.
In a nutshell, the seemingly increasing appreciation for women like Sweeney is a reaction to progressives’ ever-increasing “woke” notions of beauty, which have elevated things like morbid obesity and trans-femininity as legitimate rivals to traditional standards of hotness.
We’re told that stars like Lizzo are hot and healthy, that it’s groundbreaking Sports Illustrated features transgender females in its famed swimsuit edition, etc., but when your average American Joe Six-Pack scoffs at such, their “betters” then resort to predictable cries of bigot and [whatever]phobe.
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“I am all for having lots of smart, articulate, and good-looking women as spokespeople for movements,” Rottenberg said, “but we need a wide range of faces, ages, and body shapes.”
She added conservatives merely use attractive women “as objects for political gain,” and that it has nothing to do with being “liberal” about sexuality.
The University of East Anglia’s Victoria Cann, who researches gender politics, feminist theory, and “feminist knowledge production,” told McFall that “women have been positioned through the lens of the masculinist imagery in conservative, populist politics for a very long time.”
Hannah Yelin, a “reader in gender, media, and culture” at Oxford Brookes University, said “patriarchy and populism go hand in hand” and that an “integral mechanism” of American conservatives is “policing women, their appearance and their bodies.”
The University of Delaware’s Erin Cassese noted that hot conservative women have a key factor in common: they’re white. The political science professor who “explores the behavior of women as voters and candidates for political office” said this fact “runs counter to cultural change reflecting an expansion of beauty standards to be more inclusive in terms of body size, race, and ethnicity.”
Cassese added that this focus coincides with “the erosion of women’s reproductive rights” and “points to a regressive tendency to prioritize men’s sexual gratification over women’s agency.”
These geniuses apparently have forgotten what makes Hollywood and the entertainment industry tick. Does anyone really think that 80’s pop groups like Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, for instance, would have made nearly the impact they did were it not for the music video phenomenon spawned by MTV?
Contemporary attempts to placate progressives’ demands regarding “expansion of beauty standards” have been hit or miss; some more notable ones have failed miserably. Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light, anyone?
But I’ll take the playful flaunting of the genetically honored over the advice of purple side-cut-haired/nose-ringed “studies” experts any day of the week, thank you very much.
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