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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:25 PM Jan 2017

Dont like what a woman is saying? Call her ugly.

After millions of women descended on downtowns around the world to march in support of women’s rights Saturday, several conservative lawmakers took to social media for commentary. Did they critique the marchers’ message? Nope. Question the efficacy of protests? Not that either. What they did was make fat jokes.

“Just think about this,” Judge Bailey Moseley, a state judge in East Texas, wrote on Facebook. “After just one day in office, Trump managed to achieve something that no one else has been able to do: he got a million fat women out walking.”

Indiana state Sen. Jack Sandlin posted a similar sentiment on Facebook; he shared a meme that featured a photo of marchers in pink hats under the words “In one day, Trump got more fat women out walking than Michelle Obama did in 8 years.” (Sandlin claims he’s “[n]ot sure how that ended up on my Facebook wall,” but according to the Indianapolis Star, “[s]creenshots show Sandlin’s account sharing the message directly from another Facebook page, not another account sharing to Sandlin’s Facebook page.”)

If we’re keeping score, Sandlin gets bonus points for fat-shaming marchers and getting in a dig at Michelle Obama at the same time, but he loses points for originality — North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey shared the same image on Facebook and Twitter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/26/dont-like-what-a-woman-is-saying-call-her-ugly/?utm_term=.68cab95c4249&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

Of course being called ugly by some of these schlubs is the ultimate in irony.

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Dont like what a woman is saying? Call her ugly. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 OP
Americans believe a lying, thieving racist bigoted hypocrite is Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #1
No argument get the red out Jan 2017 #2
Yep, that's what they do. fleur-de-lisa Jan 2017 #3
It bothers me we're doing it, too. HassleCat Jan 2017 #4
Agreed Phoenix61 Jan 2017 #5
That's the exact thought I had when I read the caption. Ms. Toad Jan 2017 #8
Can I excoriate her abysmal choice in clothes? annabanana Jan 2017 #10
Hair conditioner and moisturizer couldn't hurt... NurseJackie Jan 2017 #12
Men are worthy of sharing too. Just look at the dweebs saying this shit world wide wally Jan 2017 #6
Ha - thought you were talking about Kellyanne! nt jmg257 Jan 2017 #7
did they forget to call them lesbians? mopinko Jan 2017 #9
They called the women "fat" MountCleaners Jan 2017 #11

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Americans believe a lying, thieving racist bigoted hypocrite is
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:28 PM
Jan 2017

better than the most qualified person on paper to run in our history, you know, because she was a woman.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
4. It bothers me we're doing it, too.
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:34 PM
Jan 2017

Many posts here on DU call Kellyanne Conway ugly, a hag, etc. Really she is not, leaving aside consideration of the inappropriateness of shaming women for the way they look, that they're not pretty enough, etc. She is a rather normal looking woman, even reasonably attractive, if we want to be honest about it. Let's not be like them.

Phoenix61

(17,002 posts)
5. Agreed
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:40 PM
Jan 2017

It is totally acceptable to note that she is a lying, evil, piss poor excuse for a human being, ther moral compass is non existent, and what ever soul she possessed upon her birth she sold a long time ago.

Ms. Toad

(34,062 posts)
8. That's the exact thought I had when I read the caption.
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:59 PM
Jan 2017

I'm actually not at all fond of her looks. That said, her looks are totally irrelevant, but invariably commented on.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
12. Hair conditioner and moisturizer couldn't hurt...
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 07:21 PM
Jan 2017

... and she's much too old to try and get away with the "pop-star" heavy-heavy dark-and-smoky eye look

These are simply BAD CHOICES. Or she's accepting BAD ADVICE.

world wide wally

(21,740 posts)
6. Men are worthy of sharing too. Just look at the dweebs saying this shit
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:50 PM
Jan 2017

Of course no human being deserves to be rated like a meal at the local pub, but it's always fun to crash the egos of assholes like this by turning the tables on them.

So, I have a question for the women reading this:

What would you rate Donald Trump?

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
11. They called the women "fat"
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:21 PM
Jan 2017

...and that is what abusers do when they want to tear down their significant other.

And "fat" to these guys and any abuser is, like, anyone over 130 pounds or over a size 6.
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