Reply #161: Michael Moore had been talking earlier, about how "effective"

[SoCalDem]

the way republicans use words to boil down an issue to its essence.

Oddly, when the words "pink tutu" some to my mind, it's accompanied by an image of a little girl 5-6 yrs old, trying awkwardly to "be a ballerina". It has no "sexist-homophobic" connotations.

The phrase may send out alarm signals in people who are sensitive to their own issues, but to me it's synonymous with being childishly naive, and perhaps little girlish.

Didn't we all find this out during the 2004 election, and the 2000 one before that?

Our nation is obsessed with manliness, macho, boisterous behavior. We "like" it in our tv/movie stars and in our politicians. It's sad, but it is what it is.

John Kerry explained things in detail & W just made up funky words, strung a few of them together and the message (whatever it was at the time) was honed to a few easy to repeat words.

It goes on today..

death panel vs detailed explanation of what the plan actually was...yawn
clean coal vs what intelligent people know it really is (our side does it too, occasionally)
death taxes vs a lengthy explanation of how it's just an inheritance tax designed to finally tax longtime-untaxed-freebie money left to people who did not earn any of it

Why are there few, if any, parallel "slurs" used against women pols...and why they are not as "effective"? Men still dominate the political arena, and in fact women this time around wanted to be seen as "manly" .....

pink tutu = weak & little girlie

Is there even a comparative slam to be used against a grown woman?

tomboy? Many (most?) little girls are not chastised by society for playing boys' games.

Our society has clearly defined "how a man should act".. It should be strong, decisive, and determined. I don't think it has anything to do with personal sexual identity. W was strong, decisive and determined.. he was also wrong in every decision he made, but he did not appear to be weak, or little-girlie.

Mike was just making the point that Obama is not acting like a grown up man, when he seems indecisive and too willing to back down to his aggressors. In a child's world, the little girl being picked on by the big naughty boys, would run home, in her little ballet class outfit, and complain to Mommy.