Discussion for article #247530
His tweet was a distraction from the fact that Clinton was bashing the hell out of his buddy Trump in her speech.
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The problem, JoeScar, is that you don’t criticize men’s appearance in the same way, and specifically, don’t seem to find it necessary to tell men to smile when they’re not doing so on their own.
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I personally think JoeScar needs a blepharoplasty. His squinty eyes are distracting. A little chin tuck wouldn’t hurt. Maybe some Just for Men on the sideburns.
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If you are a woman you rarely get through life without some random guy, usually in a moment when you are busy, intently contemplating something, thinking through a problem, tending to work that matters to you, suddenly interrupting you by demanding that you “Smile!”
What it means is “Pay attention to me.” “Fawningly acknowledge my wonderful existence.” Or, as in JoeScar’s case; “behave like I think all women should.”
It’s irritating. And it makes the random guy look like an idiot.
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Eke out a win.
Save eek for sentences such as “EEEEK, my spelling is atrocious!”
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I know, can you imagine this guy advising Trump to “smile” when he talks, let alone Cruz, or Bernie.
It would be ridiculous, just like it was for him to tell HRC.
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If you compelled to write an op-ed to explain that your tweet was not sexist, perhaps it’s time for a little introspection.
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So he wants to decide for women what should & should not offend them? No. Not sexist at all. Right.
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Ok Joe, we hear you. You can go back to fellating Donald Trump now.
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Joe wears too much rouge when he’s on-camera.
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my brief tweet
Not one of those lengthy, time-consuming tweets, thank God…
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The Washington Post opinion page is so pathetic it had plenty of space for this.
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microaggressions
Someone’s kinda jonesing on the diminutives…Must be exposure to small fingers.
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This man is critiquing a candidate in the Democratic race on the basis of demeanor? Is this the best Joe has?
Come on…we aren’t as dumb as he thinks. The quip was made to enforce the Shrill…Mean…Cold…thing. It was a calculated political move that’s ridiculous in light if the savagery going in in his own GOP.
I agree…it was not sexist. But it was a naked partisan stunt.
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Not to mansplain or anything, but . . .
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Happened to me only about a million times. Men don’t get it because they’re too busy making the demand to satisfy their own ego.
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Thin-skinned sexist blowhard who can’t take a punch. And what about that dead intern, Joe?
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To me, it means, “you don’t look as sweet and inviting as I’d like you to be and I find that intimidating. So, please, put your thoughts on hold and placate me by being cute and disarming.” That said, it was totally cool when Tupac and Scarface asked everyone to smile.
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He used a sexist trope in service of the right wing – reinforcing the same negative memes about her that they started.
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