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bpyatt Donating Member (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 07:33 AM
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The Babe Theory
Really funny article, I wouldn't say there are truths to it, but peculiar similarities.

What democrats need are hotter women at rallies :)



In 1830, French artist Eugène Delacroix painted an image that endures today in the hearts and minds of freedom-lovers everywhere, an image of a bare-breasted woman in all her glory, representative of the greater concept of liberty, leading the charge in an epic revolutionary battle (thanks to Frank Warner).

Most art historians believe that the image of the woman is strictly symbolic, but could it be that Delacroix had a particular woman in mind when he painted Liberty?

The values Liberty embodies are so universal, that when both men and women see her resemblance in modern times, we cannot help but connect the dots psychologically, deep down in our very souls. One of America's most enduring symbols of liberty is New York harbor's Statue of Liberty.

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http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/03/more_on_the_bab_1.html
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 07:37 AM
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1. Well, SHE certainly doesn't remind one of Joan of Arc leading the troops,
does she?
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atommom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 07:40 AM
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2. My favorite part is the Men Are Pigs Corollary.
:D
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bpyatt Donating Member (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 07:51 AM
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3. Haha
I skipped over that part, but what I took out of it that today's liberal women that are hot need to attend rallies. They showed all the ugly ones :(

They showed the hot ones in the 60/70s and they were successful.

So Hot women need to attend anti war Iraq rallies, take their shirts off etc.


Disclaimer: I'm mostly kidding :)
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Rich Hunt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 07:53 AM
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4. don't laugh

I've seen women doing this at anti-war rallies.
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brainshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 08:01 AM
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5. What? You haven't read Lisistrata yet?
Edited on Mon Jun-27-05 08:03 AM by brainshrub


http://www.crossingborder.org/newspaper/no17/a_drama.html

ON EDIT: I posted the pic of the boxing babe to make the men interested in following the link.
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demwing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 08:38 AM
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8. Didn't work
I was ready to skip past this post till I read that edit.

Progressives are an enlightened bunch, sometimes.

If women were discussed with the same level of contempt that is used when discussing men, arms and lips would be flapping, and the smoke of indignant typists would rise from the keyboards of the self styled progressives.

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brainshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 09:12 AM
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9. Are you implying that my post is sexist or shows contempt for women?
Because if it does, it wasn't intentional.

The article in the original post makes a good point: Strong, attractive women at protests certainly don't hurt the cause. One of the reasons in college I attended protests was due to an young woman that I had a thing for. I would have happily taken a beating from a police officer to impress her.

In any case, no honest movement would actively recruit attractive women just to boost numbers; If the cause is just, beauty will manifest itself naturally. Cases in point: Naomi Klein, Granny D and Dr. Vandana Shiva.

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atommom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 12:21 PM
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11. Was it the comment about the pic of the boxing woman?
I don't think the poster intended that as an anti-male post.
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 08:03 AM
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6. Sex sells
and we know it.

Even back in the sixties some people joined the movement just for the possibility of getting laid.

Not saying this is a GOOD thing, precisely, but it's true.
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oblivious Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 08:11 AM
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7. It sure worked for Yushchenko and his orange rallies.
They always seemed to have attractive, smiling, happy young women fashionably dressed in orange in the front rows and the photographers always focused only on them.

His opponent always seemed to have drably dressed, unhappy looking, elderly women in front and the visual contrast was quite striking. Youth, beauty, vibrance, happiness vs. age, anger and unhappiness.

I thought the photographers were biased, but the orange organisers may have just cleverly manipulated them.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 10:47 AM
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10. the only thing I know about Delacroix . . .
is that Iron Chef French Sakai (sp?) is known as "The Delacroix of French Cuisine" . . . :)
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