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Fair enough. But I remember NPR running a story on 'women's dreams about President Clinton' early in that administration, and I'm not making that up. I've also read more than one woman (Judith Warner comes immediately to mind among urban chattering-class women) confess her sexual fantasies about President Obama. It's a fairly orthodox theme among such women that Democratic men are sexually attractive and Republican men are not. (There's also recent research alleging that Republican women in Congress have more 'feminine' features than do Democratic women.) As usual with the politically-correct, one wishes to say 'lighten up'.
#1 Posted by Mark Richard, CJR on Fri 26 Oct 2012 at 04:55 PM
Mark, you clearly haven't been following the chattering classes' discussions of Paul Ryan's body and workout, and Romney's many features . I believe the media has spent more time discussing Ryan's workout routine than his budget. Then again, his workout routine has more details available and is more consistent than his budget.
#2 Posted by Astraea_M, CJR on Fri 26 Oct 2012 at 08:26 PM
To Asraea, fair enough, but the coverage of Ryan hasn't been sexualized nearly to the degree that the chattering class 'framing' of Clinton and Obama (to take the two most obvious examples) was and is. The chattering classes include the entertainment industry.
#3 Posted by Mark Richard, CJR on Mon 29 Oct 2012 at 12:38 PM
http://mediamatters.org/mobile/research/2006/04/27/mission-accomplished-a-look-back-at-the-medias/135513
"MATTHEWS: We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits. We don't want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a [Russian Federation President Vladimir] Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president."
"LIDDY: Well, I -- in the first place, I think it's envy. I mean, after all, Al Gore had to go get some woman to tell him how to be a man. And here comes George Bush. You know, he's in his flight suit, he's striding across the deck, and he's wearing his parachute harness, you know -- and I've worn those because I parachute -- and it makes the best of his manly characteristic. You go run those -- run that stuff again of him walking across there with the parachute. He has just won every woman's vote in the United States of America. You know, all those women who say size doesn't count -- they're all liars. Check that out. I hope the Democrats keep ratting on him and all of this stuff so that they keep showing that tape."
Please, do not force me to go on.
#4 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Mon 29 Oct 2012 at 04:46 PM
Further reading can be found at:
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/greenwald.php
#5 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Mon 29 Oct 2012 at 04:59 PM
Testosterone causes women to become "horny" and is the driver of Libido.
CNN Study = Fail.
#6 Posted by ......., CJR on Wed 7 Nov 2012 at 07:49 AM