Monday, May 11, 2009

Pistol Whipped: Sarah Haskins Takes on Michelle Obama's Right to Bare Arms

Posted by Tracy Moore on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:39 AM

By now you're surely familiar with the raging controversy over Michelle Obama's flagrant display of her toned arms. In funny lady Sarah Haskins' take above, she parses the guns frenzy with hilarity as usual, compiling a montage of news briefs trying to make sense of the age-old question: Are bare arms right for every occasion? Uh, what? Sure, we've been poring over public figures' sartorial choices since forever. But for women, it's a different game altogether. Balancing power with femininity has always been a tricky business. Just ask Janet Reno. Not enough winking and nodding to make sure the boys still feel like men, and you're widely criticized and insulted. Too much pampering and perfuming and you're Eskimo Barbie. As far as I can tell, Michelle Obama is playing this game with grace and poise. She downplays her femininity enough to be taken seriously--that's what the J.Crew cardigans, pencil skirts and flats are all about--but she enhances it enough to avoid seeming overly threatening. This is the social contract we seem to have entered into with men. You'll let us hold jobs and have property and stuff, as long as we don't hit you over the head too hard with how smart we are. Sarah Palin could have ruled this balance with sophistication, but she ended up being too much of an idiot to pull it off. So maybe it's that Michelle Obama's emphasis of her physical strength over say, whipping out the gams every chance she gets or painting her face more, makes some people uncomfortable. Or maybe it's the simple notion that a woman in her 40s can't be unapologetic about her athletic robustness. She looks like she could take most of the men I know, and I suppose all the J.Crew cardigans in the world can't soften that blow.

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YOu guys can't even leave sarah palin alone when talking about first lady fashion....sarah palin is clearly more intelligent than the uneducated, and sophmoric writer of this useless piece of fluff with a little pallin attack thrown in...classy....nashville scene is an abomination for allowing this amateur tripe to be posted...but then you do have a category for 'jealous whore'....so class all the way here

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Posted by paul collier on May 11, 2009 at 6:27 AM

Mr. Collier, it's "Palin" not "Pallin." Also, if Ms. Moore is "uneducated" how did she rise to the level of "sophomoric"? Or do you not know what those words mean?

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Posted by Aunt B. on May 11, 2009 at 7:31 AM

And while we're at it, Mr. Collier, funny you should call Ms. Moore uneducated, considering the website you link to features barely coherent driveling containing more typos than a third-grader's essay.
And I've seen Ms. Moore, and she's definitely not a "guy."

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Posted by Jack on May 11, 2009 at 7:58 AM

Mr.Collier, there may be a debate on the author's education, but we both know she sure drinks a lot of Kool-Aid. She is one of those on the Left, who still see's Sarah Palin as a "threat to them." That is why she is still attacking the Governor. I watched the same thing when one of the Left's own, ran for "La France Presidente," the Left just counldn't diss MME. Segolene Royal enough. Oh! keep Michelle Obama in her place as First Lady, but practice sexism against a woman who dares to run for President or Vice President. I can still hear Hillary say "shame shame on you Barak Obama." pass around the Kool-Aid!!

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Posted by Stanley on May 11, 2009 at 12:26 PM
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