When you look at the above picture — a group portrait of the Congressional freshman class of 2013 — what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Maybe something along the lines of “there sure are a lot of white dudes in that picture!”
Not if you’re “Emmanuel Goldstein” over at Roosh V’s Return of Kings blog. No, he looked at that same picture and thought: American women sure are a bunch of worthless attention whores!
Why? Because some of the women in the picture have the temerity to wear … bright colors!
[N]ot one man appears in bright red, blue, pink or yellow. For the men, it gets about as radical as a light grey suit … The women, on the other hand, have never met a gauche shade of neon they wouldn’t wear. Why are American women so hell bent on attention whoring, precisely in the places where they say they want to be taken seriously? Why do women ‘fight for equality’ by swapping outfits with Bozo the Clown? Why are old white women so desperate to show us their wrinkly cleavage?
I’m not exactly sure how you’re defining “cleavage” here, EG, but I’m not really seeing a lot of it in this picture. Well, none, really. None cleavage. I see one outfit, possibly two, that might under some circumstances reveal a small amount of cleavage.
Not that it really matters, as EG’s outrage is purely for show.
He quotes the late paleo-con Lawrence Auster, who also professed to be similarly outraged by women and their terrible breast-baring clothes.
The way many women dress today, with half their breasts exposed, is an expression of total disrespect for men. Men are left with three possible responses. To grab the woman, which is illegal; to ogle the woman, which is socially unacceptable; or to affect not to notice the woman at all, which is emasculating. A culture that normalizes such female behavior—i.e. not only not noticing or objecting to it, but prohibiting any objection to it—is extremely sick.
Really? Men suffer because sometimes they see cleavage and they’re not allowed to grope or drool? Oh, you poor, poor fellows! Should I prepare the fainting couch?
EG then turns to Laura Woods, the self-proclaimed Thinking Housewife, who once declared
revealing dress in professional settings [to be] a last-ditch effort by women to salvage their femininity. They are living daily lives of masculine aggression and drive. They are pressured to destroy their inherent selflessness and desire to serve. They make their breasts appear overblown, near-to-bursting balloons as a way of diverting attention from what they have become.
Near-to-bursting balloons? Apparently Woods has been watching too much office-themed porn.
Naturally, EG agrees wholeheartedly with Woods:
Hers may be the most potent explanation yet. I have surmised as much about the ubiquity of the color hot pink, as a microcosm of this drive, and it’s popularity as a marketing tool to women. It is an impossibly ugly, tacky hue, yet women love it. These women are not feminine in any meaningful way, yet they think that having a vagina is something to be proud of. Wearing hot pink is akin to liking an anti-Kony group on Facebook to feel like you’re doing your part to fight genocide.
Wait, what?
Wearing hot pink is akin to liking an anti-Kony group on Facebook to feel like you’re doing your part to fight genocide.
I’m tempted to stop here, because there’s no way he can get any dumber than this.
But then I remember that I forgot to mention the one man who EG sees as the “male analog to the women I describe.” That is, the male analog to those whorish congresswomen and their oh-so-revealing pantsuits. His name, EG tells us, is
Buzz Bissinger, a GQ contributor who later checked into rehab for a shopping addiction. … Oh, it turns out he’s had some homosexual encounters as well. I’d love to see a straight man test the bounds of ‘equality,’ and dress like these buffoons, and still keep his job.
Damn those bisexual men and their bisexual style privilege! Straight men truly are the mostest oppressed of the most oppressed!
Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of Mr. Bissinger, the male analog, evidently taken while he was on the job:
As you may have noticed, he’s not exactly the “male analog” to the pantsuited congresswomen above, given that in the middle picture there he seems to be wearing NOTHING BUT HIS UNDERPANTS AND SOME WRISTBANDS.
You don’t see that a lot in the Congressional Women’s Caucus.
I guess they missed the dude in the back row of steps, 5 from the left who’s wearing a bright pink shirt with a pink & yellow stripped tie?
If men are allowed to be proud of their dick*, then why can’t I be proud of my vagina?
*People like EG certainly seem to be waving them about a lot.
Colours like red and blue have absolutely no place in politics, and only a blue-state red communist would think otherwise.
Then there’s my dad, who claims that women wearing male-style business suits is because we are so “eager to submit to male authority” (his actual words).
Yes, but isn’t Mr. Bissinger, in his pants-less state, happier than anyone on RoK?
On one side, if I was a man I would be depressed at the lack of diversity of formal clothing. It seems that if you are in an ‘important’ job the only color you’re allowed to wear is on your tie.
On the other shopping seems so much easier for them. And less expensive.
Once again, MRAs reveal their total inability to distinguish between their own response to a woman’s appearance and her intentions in crafting that appearance. This goes beyond narcissism…I’d almost categorize it as solipsism.
Can you imagine what these fuck-knuckles would say if a man actually did turn up to Congress in a pink suit?
chibigodzilla, he actually did mention that guy, and called him a “weirdo” or something along those lines.
I’d love to wear an actual men’s suit to work, if it didn’t look really odd because of dress conventions (as I’d be the only one in a suit) and the style doesn’t quite fit me so it would need to be tailored. But I own a couple, and I love them, and wear them whenever I can.
Neon? My hair is neon not anything any of those women are wearing. The brightest color any of the are wearing is a pretty sedate red. Yes, it’s bright compared to all the gray and navy suits but not that unusual.
It’s not that colorful suits for men don’t exist (I give you the 1970s) but our fashions have swung back to a very conservative look for business attire in general. This includes women’s as well.
No. How far up one’s own ass does a person have to be to honestly believe this?
I get the feeling that he’d find something to object to even if women wore burquas.
Noadi: there are plenty of colorful suits out right now from designers like D&G, Versace, and Burberry, but that hasn’t trickled down into regular business wear yet. But if a man really wanted a bright suit, he could get it.
http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/2009/5/32697105_123130308939.jpg
Sports Jackets must not count…
The late Jimmy Crum, Sportscaster and philanthropist.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2009/01/06/CRUM.ART_ART_01-06-09_A2_KHCEI3C.html
There’s also the gentlemen on the third row back, third from the right and one on the back row of steps, 4th from the left who are wearing blue shirts.
Anyway, some other thoughts about the photo.
1) Why are all but two of the women grouped together in the front row? It really just points out how few women there are in congress.
2) Did they feel like they needed to hide Tammy Duckworth’s legs, or is she on the balcony so she doesn’t have to deal with the stairs?
3) Those three congress people far left of the last row of steps stick out like a sore thumb.
4) Only one bowtie!? C’mon congress…
Ignoring that the quoted jackass (too lazy to read the names…sowwyz) does not seem to know where a breast begins or ends, he seems to be whining that treating
peoplewomen like human beings is emasculating. What a shit.::giggles::
Omigod, this got better! XD
@mery
O_o GAh.
@SittieKitty
Bet you’d look awesome in it! I should get a men’s suit. I love the way the look, usually, provided they’re fitted right.
@vancera: See also: Don Cherry
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x89z_RHEscU/Tx8_Xjks0hI/AAAAAAAAMS4/RGwuX7WbeLw/s400/DonCherry.jpg
http://imgur.com/zT2H1
I dread to think of what these guys would to around women in whose culture t-shirts don’t figure in.
I give you Republican representative Aaron Shock:
http://illinoiscitizensforethicsreform.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/aaron-schock-picnic-belt-photo.jpg
@Chibigodzilla
It takes a special person wear something that awesome. I’m clearly not that person…
As usual women can’t win with the MRA.
If they wore suits, they would be “masculine feminazis that want to be men”, but if they wear female styled and colored clothes, they are “attention whores”.
Also my new gravatar seems particularly fitting on this story.
(perhaps too much information)
That’s kind of what boobs are like if you’re nursing and haven’t expressed enough milk. It’s called engorgment, and it hurts like hell. You have to get the baby to drink more, or if zie isn’t hungry, then pump some of the extra. Otherwise, cis women’s and uterus people’s breasts aren’t anyting like an overfilled balloon.
I think hot pink is a pretty color. I never realized that was oppressing men. Here is some extreme misandry
Does his logic work the other way? If a man dresses in a way that looks sexy, does that mean he should be groped and ogled?
Seamless conflation of breasts and women there. 6.0
Poor EG and his sad boner.