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/Christ, I sound like Ralph from The Howard Stern Show.
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"Lawn Dart" Krasinski?
07/15/09
Now I like Rashida Jones even more but with a slight tinge of jealousy. Sigh.
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01/30/09
boyfriend (and it's NOT Favreau) who is highly placed in the administration."
What do you know, and when did you know it, and when will you come right out and show it?
01/30/09
The closeted geighs do prefer beards who are cartoonishly feminine.
01/30/09
I don't mind (and don't believe) the allegations of "flirting," because every asshole will see any friendliness from an attractive woman as a sign of "oh yeah, she wants me."
Nor is it particularly controversial that she has a boyfriend (and it's NOT Favreau) who is highly placed in the administration. As a weird twist of our sexist society, young women often have to find "protectors" within an organization to get any professional advancement. True, these young women tend to be pushy, and easy, but the bigger problem is that men usually only want to promote women who are sleeping with them.
But her professional choices are far more unsettling. Posing for Maxim in those getups shows a really pathetic insecurity and an inability to relate to the world without using overt sexuality as a cudgel. Attractive is fine. "On display and for sale" rightfully attracts questions.
01/30/09
It's funny how people assume that only men use power.
01/30/09
I doubt flirting got her the prestigious position she now holds. Going to bed with someone is more likely to do it. That said, women do not have to find protectors within an organization. That is such womanly BS. What man would want to promote a woman if doing so carried the benevolent obligation to look after that poor, little female who can't care for herself. Man up, ladies. Short dudes, smelly dudes, and even dudes who have heavily accented english have to deal with promotional bias. You don't find these types of guys attaching themselves to "protectors." Doing so would just subject themselves to the role of bitch, just like in jail. Women who look for protectors are doing wrong to
Guys are more likely to promote other guys for a number of grounded reasons. A guy is more likely to promote a male coworker he's friends with than a female coworker he's friends with. The loyalty of females is fickle at best.
01/30/09
If you think short dudes don't get promoted, take a look at the worlds of politics and finance. They are populated with shrimpy little douchebags.
Heavily accented dudes are at the heads of firms like Citigroup and others. Most of the companies in this global world are populated by "heavily accented" dudes who don't sound like their employees. Everyone at Lucent has to speak French because that is where their bosses are.
The truth is that most men don't know how to handle an attractive woman in the workplace and they will come up with bullshit reasons to deny a woman credit for the work she has done. (Consider Sheila!) They more readily promote women they are sleeping with because then they feel like they are in control. Or they will promote women who show ZERO sexuality. Either way, the woman's womanliness has to be controlled and rendered unthreatening to the man before he consents to respect her contribution.
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lesson i learned young: it's not experience that counts, it's who you know and who you blow.
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I understand her getting a leg up at some job because of her work and her connections, but why did they put her in the White House? What if things don't work out with this speech writer guy? Does he not know about not eating where you shit?
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If she got promoted that quickly her "boyfriend" is much higher up. Trust.
01/30/09
For the same reason that firing all the editors has effected the quality of Nick Denton website?
/meme'd
01/30/09
I'd execute for this (um, how does Sheila leaving have anything to do with this?) but I liked the Rahm thing.
01/30/09
I've been a friend of Ali's for a long time and want to straighten the record:
1. She is NOT dating Jon Favreau.
2. Though she applied for the speechwriting position, she withdrew her application to accept her current position.
3. She CHOSE to not puruse her MBA at Northwestern in order to work unpaid for the campaign.
4. The story makes it seem like she has simultaneously pursued a career in enterntainment and politics. Those pictures from Maxim and the reality show were done 5 YEARS AGO. Since leaving entertainment and modeling in 2004, Ali has done alot in the non-entertainment world.
5. She's been going by Alejandra for a loooong time.
01/30/09
1. Um, care to elaborate on how you know what we, our tipsters and the San Francisco Chronicle (who interviewed Campovrdi) don't?
2. OK so our tipster here was right, despite your slam.
3. This is informative! Thank you! Seriously!
4. Read the prior posts, clearly she changed tac.
5. OK!
You know a lot, seemingly. More, please. And thanks.
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Another sign of how un-ready our nation is to accept a woman in power; men can't deal with a brainy woman who chooses to show off her sex appeal.
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Do we know for a fact that she's even "brainy"?
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I could be wrong, but Jon Favreau in lingerie is not going to get the same number of page views.
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Calling somebody a sexist douchebag is lazy and reductionist and speaks more of your insecurities than anything else.
01/30/09
I'm at work and don't have the time to argue with you. But trust me, I'll be back. And when I return, you and I are gonna have a little chat, snookums.
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01/31/09
"Women have not been battling insecure men, but rather the functional roles of their gender as biologically ingrained over millennia."
That means something to me. I don't know how this speaks to my insecurities as much as it does his. His thinking was lazy and establishmentarian, so I feel my response was entirely appropriate. He calls himself a realist, but, realistically, women are not biologically ingrained to flirt their way to success.
01/30/09
first - the girl IS very very beautiful. knocking her for that is just as bad as discriminating against "ugly" people.
second - from all i've read about her, i can honestly say that it seems like she's genuinely intelligent and motivated and deserves all she's worked to accomplish.
and her boyfriend is HOT!
i say GO GIRL!
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