Discussion: Jonathan Chait: I'm Not Sexist For Noting Many Fox Anchors Are Blonde Women

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Finally, a story that has comments enabled.

Every story between since 12:47 PM EDT and this story have had the comments disabled.

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IS iT seXisT TO saY I wOULD taP MOst of THAT???

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…accused the left of characterizing Fox News’ female personalities as “dumb blonde chicks” and assessing them on their hotness and looks.

I don’t assess them on their “hotness” (I think they are the Wonder Bread™ of ‘hotness’, i.e. not). I “assess them” as being dumb because they are dumb on the air, spewing ignorance, lies and vapid bullshit… and because most of them are blonde.

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LIbtARDS tURned OFF the COMMEnts TO SILEnce THE Voices OF TRUE AmericaN patRIOTs1!1!!!one!!1!1!!!

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Well, ya got me there.

(wry grin)

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Clearly, O’Reilly must go platinum or ash.

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And many of the male talking heads on Faux are overweight, pasty-faced bloviators who vie with the many blondes to spew stupid and/or vile lies.

Was that sexist of me?

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Not all blondes are dumb, but those that are work for Fox News.

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Jonathan Chait: It’s Not Sexist To Point Out So Many Fox News Women Are Blond

Nor that fox media moguls and their minions are bald.

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If my eyes rolled any more they might fall out of my head. Nothing is more sexist than what Faux does: hiring only text-book beautiful blondes (natural or not) precisely because they know what will grab and hold the attention of their drooling misogynist couch-boner target market. They use these women for exactly that purpose by parading them around as the oh-so-pretty barbie-vessels that provide said couch-boner’s daily affirmations, parroting the ideological Galtian screeds, nonsensical Teatroll talking points and tinfoil hatted RWNJ conspiracy vomit in which couch-boner brains need to bathe on a daily basis to maintain their creamy smooth, but empty, cortical structures. Heck, just the fact that these women sell themselves out to spew rabid idiocy replete with sexist ideology is more sexist than this guy pointing it out.

Besides…I’m more of an Ygritt kinda guy…they can keep their Daenerys daydreams…

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Well, I see the Fox outrage brigade is gearing up for their next world tour: “Blonde Ambition, The Schlock Doctrine”

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“Kelly wasn’t sneering or looking frightened, though she is blonde and is on Fox which to the illiberal left means she’s a nameless ‘blond anchor’ and candidate for being objectified and dehumanized,”

I wonder if she could keep a straight face when writing that.

First off, Kelly is not nameless. Nearly everybody I now, right or left, knows who Megan Kelly is. Nor is she what I would call dumb, either. (Soulless perhaps, but that’s getting off on to another topic).

But seriously, a candidate for being objectified and dehumanized? Fox News are masters of both of those things. The examples are literally too many to even start to list. From how they are required to dress (you will never see a pants suit, or even a long dress. Only dresses that show lots of leg), to their make up (Make up is also required…many guests have voiced frustration with how Fox insists on doing their make up), to even the “live” moment of Kelly striding back to talk to the numbers people about Rove’s meltdown over calling Ohio…go back and look. The entire camera angle is taken from below to show up her legs, and presumably, give their poor viewers something to distract them from the fact that yes, Romney was going to lose the election. Its all about objectification, and always has been.

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Prayers are being said at Fox News that there is not a peroxide embargo.

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Nope, not sexist, just truth haha

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The comments started coming back up a few stories ago.

Re: This Story…no, it isn’t sexist because it comments on a sexist FOX News policy we’ve known about for two decades now.

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This has been happening on & off for days lately. Does anyone else know what gives? It only seems to be when a story is “new.” At first, I thought it was my computer programming, etc.

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I agree, I can imagine a Faux News makeover where all the blondes are replaced with Scottish gingers armed with long-bows, battle axes, and wearing brass bustiers.

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Sniffit said:

Besides…I’m more of an Ygritt kinda guy…they can keep their Daenerys daydreams…

Ralph Von Host said: I agree, I can imagine a Faux News makeover where all the blondes are replaced with Scottish gingers armed with long-bows, battle axes, and wearing brass bustiers.

Hey, whatever floats Roger Ailes’ boat. Poor Shep must feel like the odd bird out.

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Isn’t she supposedly a Democrat? Oh wait, a Fox Democrat. Never mind.

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