QUESTION OF THE DAY
BLAME THE GREEKS WHO SAID WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL IS GOOD And What Is Good Is Beautiful. That standard doesn’t leave much for the pretty good. And even less for the average.
BLUE EYELINER HEADLINES NEWS Or is it eye shadow? KATHERINE HARRIS claims newspapers are COLORIZING
her image and mocking her good looks with distortion. While her claims dredge up memory and the mockery of a distorted election, The Heretik asks whether Harris is a victim of society or her own delusions. Or does she suffer from both?
IN THE 2000 ELECTION NOBODY COMMENTED ON JEB BUSH looking like a pig feeding too long at the trough, but Katherine Harris was consistently portrayed as some Cruella DeVille witch of a woman.
QUESTION: IS KATHERINE HARRIS BEING TREATED FAIRLY? Should we care? What will it take for women not to be judged first by appearance?
AND ABOUT THOSE DOVE ADS
[AMANDA MARCOTTE/PANDAGON] The final judge of all things beautiful is at it again, even though she's getting a tad more cautious with her demands that the world provide an endless stream of nubile flesh for men to ogle. Why Allen is so invested in making sure that no man goes a minute without constant titilliation by gorgeous young women flirting with him for money and/or offering up their ass for in billboards for his perusal, one cannot say. I'm not saying a few ideas don't pop immediately to mind, but I'll refrain from speculating.
In my opinion, what has set her up for the backlash on this is KH seems to be sensitive about the wrong things. She could stand to be sensitive to what she did scrubbing the rolls.
Posted by: Idyllopus | August 05, 2005 at 09:57 AM
KH - who cares?
Posted by: Donna | August 05, 2005 at 03:29 PM
"IS KATHERINE HARRIS BEING TREATED FAIRLY? Should we care? What will it take for women not to be judged first by appearance?"
Sure her appearance is not, in all fairness, something to be judged. BUT, that said, she drew attention to her horrible make-up job and left herself open to mockery. It would be like Rush bloviating on how someone Photoshopped a belly onto him. Dude, it wasn't the newspapers.
Posted by: Lauren | August 05, 2005 at 07:28 PM
She should get on her broom and fly away. No way those red slippers are coming of for that bitch.
Posted by: Steve | August 08, 2005 at 07:04 AM