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Yay, Scots! Yes, Mrs./Dr.

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:55:54 +0000

In reply to Interesting point on Dr. Dean

Yay, Scots! Yes, Mrs./Dr. Dean was probably elitist whereas Mrs. Sanders fit the alt mold. If I recall right, Michelle was a bit tone-deaf a couple times before she got whacked into line. Hillary of course coudn't be White House trained.

Interesting point on Dr. Dean

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:48:44 +0000

In reply to Howard Dean's wife was rather

Interesting point on Dr. Dean, got to admit I wasn't even really thinking on the feminist angle because truth be told I am prejudiced too, I don't take a job as a celeb actress and socialite all that seriously.

What I do take seriously is netiquette, though! Including the right for people to have some fun with trashy pursuits without some troll trying to inject political correctness. A different example: bitch and name call about Red State members all you like outside Red State, but don't go into their discussion with the intent to throw a bomb and destroy the whole place. I've heard the Linton commenter explain herself and it's clear she didn't intend to do that, she was just aghast at what she saw, but the effect was the same as trolling.

Personally I would think Bernie's wife's career fits in with the whole Sandernistas brand just fine for the most part without any adjustment needed. (social worker, college administrator and political staffer)

But I want to add to your point of Oh she's not a yank

The Scots I have known have very good manners and know how to make the other at ease, may be cultural. But what the real difference is: unlike most yanks, she understands class differences and how one should handle them

Howard Dean's wife was rather

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:36:58 +0000

In reply to Interesting to me on the

Howard Dean's wife was rather roasted in 2004 for spurning time on the campaign circuit to be doctoring instead. Bernie's wife seemed to be somewhat outside this image and expectation among his fans, and it didn't seem to come up.

Interesting to me on the

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:25:39 +0000

In reply to Wow! Linton Gives Apology for the Ages (oh, she's not a Yank)

Interesting to me on the netiquette angle, precisely because, even though she herself now agrees it was warranted in this case, what I saw in the initial story was the commenter trolling her. She was basically posting flighty-ditsy-social-celeb news, basically p.r. for her brand as an actress. In that context, what is supposed to be a lighthearted, take it or leave it celeb feed, (i.e. this political troll barges in and raises get serious all you Marie Antoinettes fiddling while Rome burns.

She gets it now, she really gets what she bought into with this marriage: no more celeb fun and games. And even further, gets that she has to be apologetic and properly old WASP style discrete about the high society stuff--she did a pre-emptive on the ball gown.

My netiquette point: if an actress had done this on a feed about what wardrobe she was chosing for the Cannes film festival, other commenters would consider the commenter a troll. I.E., Occupy Wall Street hippie drops by to disrupt our whole conversation.

We've got this sort of solved about first ladies in a strange sort of way. They get to do the celeb thing with clothing but they can't comment about it themselves, though fashion journalists can, it's like this: they are just forced to wear all this fancy stuff to promote the fashion industry. I recall that Rosalyn Carter turned down that particular role.