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Brickbat

(19,339 posts)
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 05:50 PM Apr 2013

You Can't Tell the Attorney General She Has an Epic Butt, But Here's What You CAN Do

I searched and couldn't tell if this had been posted before; apologies if it had. I am actually a little tired of hearing about it, but thought this article described perfectly the annoyance some of us felt about the president's comments.

http://jezebel.com/you-cant-tell-the-attorney-general-she-has-an-epic-but-471311007

Last week, in case you missed it, President Obama hopped on the mic and told the nation that I'mma let you finish, but California Attorney General Kamala Harris is like the banginest Attorney General of all time (sorry, Richard Gordon Kleindienst). He later apologized after the thinking humans of the nation were like ":-|" and everything really could have ended there. Unfortunately, in the aftermath of AGILFgate, it appears that certain men are mega-befuddled about "the rules" of "when" they're "allowed" to compliment women. Freedom-fighters, all of them. First they came for the nonconsensual bun-grabs and I said nothing!

Aggrieved White Male Jack Engelhard, who is purportedly a real person and was not grown in a lab at the Onion headquarters, has a lot of feelings about Obama's comments and subsequent public reprimand. Specifically, Engelhard frets:

Please, give us a chance to learn the rules. Give us a minute to catch our breath.

...We were taught (most of us were) that girls and women were to be given flowers for their beauty of character and good looks.

Exactly what is wrong with this?

But one morning we were told that it is okay, even required, to tell a woman that she looks marvelous. Next morning, hey, we can go to jail for this!


Awwwwwww, the rules are changing so fast! Political correctness gone mad, innit. I remember the good old days when the President could post a picture of an attractive colleague on hotornot.com and be awarded a Purple Heart. I mean, it's like you can't even tell the Secretary of State that you want to "put the bang in Benghazi" anymore without getting looked at like this! That's not Engelhard's America, so what sort of strange feminazi Looking-Glass Unmerica is it, anyway!? WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?


The "rules" follow. Along with the suggestion that treating each other with respect might be the best path to follow, instead of demanding rules so one side can figure out just how much they can "get away with" on the other.
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