Re: Dear Red States

"Karen C in California" wrote (snip)

I really hesitate to call other women things like "bimbo", especiallly over a relatively innocent fault like admiring styles without regard for whether or not it suits them. (Look around any given public gathering--more than a few people are walking around under the delusion they are all that when they are prime targets for Ambush Makeover. And not just women) I think that language buys into a male mindset that says anything not done by "the boys" is by definition stupid.

Dawne

"Lucille" wrote >

No Lucille, I will race you to the newstand any time for the fall edition of Vogue--one of my favourite bits of eyecandy. I have to wear a dress code work outfit which includes things I never owned in real life, and cannot afford designer fashion even if I thought it a sensible use of my money, but I love to look at the construction, the colours, the gorgeous detailing.

Dawne

Well you can have mine - I am happy to chuck my jeans down on the floor or wherever. I know you aren't a bimbo even if you do like fashion.

I wasn't a bimbo even when I was blonde, had a great body and wore spike heels.

Maybe some young women are like that, but not all and most of us DO mature out of that stage of our lives! If most of the women you know are like that, you are hanging with the wrong people.

Linda

Sorry, I don't watch Jay Leno. Its either Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert or George Strombolopoulos for me, none of which have a lot of Hollywood celeb based humour. (All 3 better looking than Leno, too). And I tend not to watch stuff that makes people look idiotic--Just for Laughs Gags, America's Funniest Home Videos, even Rick Mercer Talks to Americans. Not my kind of humour. I don't doubt you've met some women who aren't using a great deal of their brains, and some men too. I just don't like the language. Personal taste.

Dawne

--snip--> Well, most of my friends now are 40 and up. Not that I don't

You keep saying you have no Brooklyn accent. Which Brooklyn accent are you talking about? The exaggerated one used by comedians or the actual way nearly all the residents speak? I was born and brought up in New York, as were my parents, and no one in my family, nor any of my friends, had the stereotypical Brooklyn accent. As a matter of fact, I don't know anyone who speaks that way.

Lucille

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"Pat in Illinois" wrote

Have you discovered Absolutely Fabulous?? There are some terrific bits where Patsy and Edina are old (Patsy stepping out of huge white grannypants). They are my role models for the disgraceful old age I hope to have.

Dawne

OMG.....

... they rarely like you back, much less give you the time of day.

My female friends are intelligent, successful women - and it's been my experience that like attracts like. If all you find around you to be bimbos, you might want to examine the aura you project.

Strangely enough, the women I find most intelligent here in this group seem to dislike you. Or at the least, respect you very little. I'd say those numbers would be "evidence," especially in a statistical sense, of the average INTELLIGENT woman's reaction to the attitudes you display in this group.