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Sep
7
More “Fun” with the LA Times and Politics of Fashion
Well at least the LA Times are consistent with their extremely fucked up hobby of tearing a woman’s political aspirations down to merely the clothing she chooses to wear. Who knew politics were merely a fashion show?
We’ve already seen the LA Times put a Politics of Fashion poll up about Michelle Obama asking if the clothes she wore to political events were too frumpy, too matronly, if she was a flawless first lady, or too sexy and now it’s Sarah Palin’s turn.
In the latest Politics of Fashion poll we can vote about Sarah Palin’s fashion choices and vote on whether she misses the target, VP bulls-eye, too beauty queen, or too backwoods.
For the record, does what Sarah Palin or Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton or Cindy McCain or any other woman in the political spotlight wears matter at all? Nope, not one little bit. No woman should be subject to the ridicule of the media and of the people for merely what she wears; it just doesn’t matter. No one ridicules a man in politics if he wore a blue suit and not a black suit and so on and why is that? Because it really doesn’t matter. I hate the belief that where there are women, there is fashion because don’t you know all women are consumed by fashion? Ugh.
What does bother me about the LA Times poll of Sarah Palin’s fashion of politics, however, is that when putting Michelle Obama under the fashion microscope the voting choices included too matronly, too frumpy and too sexy and when dissecting Sarah Palin’s fashion we are not given voting choices that completely degrade the woman which is somewhat commendable, but inconsistent and makes me believe that the media believes it’s just fine to degrade the potential first lady of the United States but not the potential vice president.
That, or Elizabeth Snead and Stephanie Lysaght, the LA Times staff writers who put these two polls together are merely just partial to Palin and want readers of the LA Times to degrade the potential first lady along with them.
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