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

[Scuba]

Hilarious, and instructive, read ...

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:

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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!

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So. When "can" you compliment women!?

1. Literally any time! Yay! I bet this is easier than you thought! Here's the thing. Do you have a reason to compliment the woman in question? Wait. Let me rephrase that. Do you have a reason to compliment her that doesn't have anything to do with your penis? If you're in a professional setting (like, say, you're the fucking President publicly addressing a colleague), you are welcome to compliment women on on anything with actual relevance to that woman's professional life. For instance, if you work in an office and a woman from IT fixes your computer, you may officially go nuts complimenting her on her computer-fixing skills! It is not appropriate, however, to compliment her on her boobs. Unless she fixed your computer with her boobs, in which case, loophole! Ka-ching.

[Brickbat]

1. I thought this was hilarious, and posted it yesterday.

It got exactly zero responses. It deserves to be seen! K&R.

[PETRUS]

3. Glad it got a 2nd chance.

I missed it yesterday.

[BlueStreak]

2. AGILFgate. Bwahahahahahah

[TreasonousBastard]

4. On the other hand...

http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_22987273/kamala-harris-and-most-california-pols-are-too.html

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When was the last time a California elected official was praised, in public, as number-one on anything? Rather than throw back Obama's compliment as if it were some kind of insult, Harris and all Californians should savor it. Maybe even hold a victory parade.

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Some will say that praise is fine; it just shouldn't center on something as superficial as looks. But that's disingenuous, at least in California. Running for office in this state - with its giant regions, weak political parties, and lack of civic engagement - is entirely about getting on TV. If you want to be on the news, you have to compete with knockout starlets who crashed their cars on the Pacific Coast Highway last night. For our pols, being attractive is a job requirement. Do you think Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor solely because of their ideas?
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And, not to be outdone here, a few years ago someone important (was it Biden, Reid?) introduced our new junior Senator as "our hottest new Senator." which caused her to have the strangest look...