tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281789906349841218.post7370926274996460932..comments2023-10-22T12:01:32.633-04:00Comments on The Lurking Canary: :: Invisible WomanBuffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14901971975109018287noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281789906349841218.post-68440984950848332942008-02-22T12:33:00.000-05:002008-02-22T12:33:00.000-05:00I don't know what prompts certain women to go arou...I don't know what prompts certain women to go around the bend with regard to Hillary. I don't mean to imply anything specific, but women have a lot of secrets - about their own hopes and ambitions, whether they "settled" for less than they wanted, marital issues, treatment they've faced and how they responded to it... it could be anything. Not that men don't have secrets too, but Hillary seems to be a real lightning rod for people's personal issues. <BR/><BR/>As I'm leaving (okay, I've left) the "young person" demographic, I've become acutely aware of the phenomenon of which Buffy's mom speaks. Throughout our culture, women who are not valuable as sex objects are simply not represented. I was dismayed to see Rachel Maddow, the new female pundit on MSNBC, wearing girlie makeup recently. She looks terrible in girlie makeup (pink lipstick, etc) - her look is totally, um, K D Lang. And she looks good that way. But it felt like someone had to make sure she was at least carrying some signifier that said "I want to be sexually valued by men." It wasn't enough to do her makeup just like they would any of the guys.Nina Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07411919366541020475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281789906349841218.post-36279542542941935242008-02-14T20:29:00.000-05:002008-02-14T20:29:00.000-05:00Hmmm... interesting. Interesting because my sist...Hmmm... interesting. Interesting because my sister was just saying yesterday that her mother-in-law was giving her a <I>really</I> hard time about voting for Hillary. She (my sis) was really surprised for the hatred that MIL felt -- deep dislike that seemed to have little to do with her positions on the issues.<BR/><BR/>I'm wondering if the invisibility is not just because she's a Woman of a Certain Age who refused to go away, but that she was never particularly quiet to begin with.Kirstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09332550775893618503noreply@blogger.com