Friday, April 5, 2013

President Obama Apologizes to California Attorney General Kamala Harris

I tweeted on this yesterday:
Okay, so O outs himself as a playa appreciating him some fine black booty. Who knew?
And now at the Los Angeles Times, "Obama apologizes for Kamala Harris remark; some cry sexism."

Kamala Harris photo tumblr_mkr3g0weCi1s2hn6eo1_500_zps21e2b661.jpg

And from Garance Franke-Ruta, at the Atlantic, "Why Obama's ‘Best-Looking Attorney General’ Comment Was a Gaffe." And Althouse responds, "'Women today operate" in "two worlds": "the system of beauty, and the system of power'."
I thought there were 2 systems, beauty and power. But beauty is a system of power. Franke-Ruta stumbles over her own jargon. The word "system" was already too much. What makes beauty or power a "system"? Back in the 1960s, we were always complaining about "the system." It's the system, man. So it's a word that sets off my bullshit detector. What does it mean to say "Beauty is a system of power, deeply rooted, preceding all others, richly rewarded"?
Via Memeorandum.


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