GROW UP, AMERICA

It took me a while before I could watch the "I have a crush on Obama" video with the Obama "girl". I wasn't sure about what I would see. I thought it was cute, but I wasn't sure about it. Then I saw Hot for Hill, and was sickened by the fact that this group had to have another lithe model sing to the female candidate. Embracing homosexuality, my ASS. Any idiot can tell that it is just another way to look at skinny, scantily clad young women prance around. Why not have a man with a crush on Hillary? Because having crushes are for submissive members of society, and men are not submissive, not even when in contact with famous people. Why have out female icons gotten smaller and smaller over the years as women in real life have gained more power? Sut Jhally (sp) claims that it is so men still feel superior to women in some way, and I agree. Furthermore, Hot for Hill embraces homosexuality in the same way that two straight girls, goaded into making out for Girls Gone Wild does. If this group really wanted to embrace homosexuality, they would have a guy singing for Obama.

So today, I had the utter misfortune of seeing the Obama "Girls" and the Giuliani "Girls" pillow fighting in Manhattan when I was at the gym. They looked clearly disinterested, but the MSNBC commentator decided to forgo any shred of journalistic integrity he might have had [but he worked for MSNBC, so that he had any is questionable] and "panted" after showing the clip. I wanted to vomit all over the elliptical machine.