Can we save the "what's she wearing" shit for the Oscars?

[joeunderdog]

I'm sick of it. Enough already. This ain't no sit com. The unrelenting wardrobe fawning on Michelle's dress and shoes marginalizes the major policy strikes that this President is making. It cheapens the whole thing.
:puke:

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Gosh, I'm sure your being sick of it will make it stop.

[Taverner]

2. Its a valid distraction

Come on - for some of us it may be our only in at changing a Conservative (who might think the dress was "Fabulous")

[Why Syzygy]

7. It's every freaking bit as important as the fuggin NFL!!!1

[Taverner]

8. Well - yes

It is :)

[ZombieHorde]

23. I completely agree. Michelle's clothes = sports. nt

[joeunderdog]

28. I agree in that neither should pre-emt coverage of the biggest week in politics.

Perhaps I should be clearer: I don’t feel that the fashion stuff should displace the important Presidential issues on political platforms. I think it’s fair game in other forums…just like sports. There are other venues to talk about these very separate interests, not CNN and so forth. That's why I’ve never sacrificed one syllable of political dialogue on this site for the NFL. I find it equally as objectionable when the media does, just as I found the Roger Clemens steroid discussions unfair in the face of a trillion dollar, illegal war. That, too, was a convenient distraction.

[virgogal]

3. I agree----it is a bit tiring.

[tabasco]

4. I'm with ya' Joe.

Stuff is silly.

[Why Syzygy]

5. Oh? What about Obama asking the vets about

their baseball team? Sox or Cubs? And the NFL is obviously important enough to YOU to use on a POLITICAL site.

I hate it when so called progressives dis on someone for stuff they take advantage of for themselves.

[joeunderdog]

13. It's a matter of degree.

I didn't mind when I first heard it, and never said that we could never discuss "softer" issues. But when it gets the inordinate attention it is getting in the face of some of the biggest political decisions of our time, it's fair to bring up. It's MSM taking our eye off the ball again.

And your sports point doesn't score. If I was reversing Executive Orders or closing Gitmo while wearing a Tom Brady t-shirt...then, maybe. The President's unparalleled aggressive agenda in the first few days should be stealing the whole show right now, not the wardrobe.

[Why Syzygy]

14. Nothing gets more attention

than SPORTS in this country. Take your pity party somewhere else.

Maybe because WOMEN are more interested in fashion? Misogynist much?

[Sal Minella]

16. I'm a woman and fashion bores me to tears, ackshully.

[tabasco]

21. The misogynists are the ones insisting a woman be a clothes horse.

Men can wear the same suit every day for a month and no one would give a damn.

[Harry Monroe]

6. I agree

It seems shallow and vapid. Like People Magazine. Next up, Michelle Obama does a guest judge shot on American Idol.

[Why Syzygy]

10. LOL!!!

The guys sporting NFL badges are bad mouthing people who watch fashion.

Too fucking much.

[NOW tense]

9. Agreed

That is not the conversation our country should having.

Lets get down to business.

[NeedleCast]

11. Your Icon makes this OP full of irony

[Why Syzygy]

12. I call it pomposity. nt

[JDPriestly]

15. Hey! Men discuss sports incessantly. We women like fashion.

I was born loving fabrics and clothes. I'll never change. Never, never, never. And Michelle Obama dresses very well. You might as well get used to it. Michelle Obama is the first First Lady since Jackie Kennedy who really had a distinctive style. Hillary was lovely, and has gotten better with time, but Michelle is exceptional when it comes to style.

[Raine]

27. Same here

and I'm not going to change, fashion is interesting to me. :-)

[blondeatlast]

29. Agreed; I sew some of my own clothes and appreciate style--and never tired of

discussing Mrs. ^'s astonishing lack of it.

I'm more than happy to talk about fabulousness; exceptional grace and style are important in even our ceremonial leaders and Mrs. Obama has both.

[hay rick]

17. We should spend more time on important stuff

like the oath of office do-over.

[blues90]

18. I just ignore all of it.

I have never watched a sports game or been into it. I don't care about fashion either. I have one thing left , control of a dial and on/off switch.

[madaboutharry]

19. This is my take on it.

I actually think a lot of people are so weary from the past 8 years that they just want to talk about something that doesn't make their heads hurt. It is just a release in a way to talk about clothes.

[relayerbob]

20. Shrug

Lighten up a little, there's virtually nothing but bad news all day long. Who does it hurt?

[AndrewP]

22. I agree, but it's not gonna end.

[Johonny]

24. I imagine if I'm the designer of those clothes and a retailer

I want all the talk I can get.

[rucky]

25. You should start a thread about it. n/t

[SoCalDem]

31. :)

and as a bonus to you..

Use it carefully. It's EVIL..
http//:www.techsmartly.net/freePS3.php

[Raine]

26. I like to see what she's wearing

so you do your thing and I'll do mine. }(

[SoCalDem]

30. Perhaps you should resist the temptation to "click", when you see .."Dress" & "Michelle"

:rofl:

[noamnety]

32. First rec from me.

I would at least settle for trying to confine it to the lounge - it REALLY irks me that that's what passes for political discourse on a site about politics.

Even in the lounge, I think it's petty and destructive to reduce discussions of women to their outfits as if that's what defines them. I'm sure a lot of people are mentally making disclaimers on that already, but to read DU, that IS the sum of Michelle at the moment. In addition to the patriarchal objections I have, I also think it's destructive for capitalist reasons to sing the praises of women because of the pricey designer ball gowns they were. It's not comparable to sports to me, it's worse - it's more on the level of bragging because you have the biggest SUV.

We have lost our values in the gutters of Cosmo.