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Gamma Male Hipsters for Hillary
This is apparently a real, genuine Hillary campaign pitch; not a parody of what a desperately corrupt and out of touch elderly Democrat might do to reach out to what her advisors tell her is a critical voting demographic.
UPDATE: Oh, dear… beware the perils of stock images.
Update: The Hillary campaign is disavowing the ad; I guess we’ll just have to trust her that she would own up to an embarrassing mistake.
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Can’t be a real pitch. Not even Hillary is that clueless.
The Hill is calling shenanigans. (Jezebel is, too, but I’m not posting the link.)
ETA: Their denial is pretty weak, though; apparently some spokesman told Jezebel that it’s “not an ad from the campaign.”
Fortunately, the fun we’ve been having mocking the ad is not (mostly) dependent upon whether or not the ad is actually from the campaign. Grin.
Here’s the problem. The HRC campaign saying it is not from them. Does anybody believe that if it was from them and they saw the type of scorn they were getting on social media that they would not lie about it?
The way my screen was set up, all I saw at first was this:
. . . so before I scrolled down to the tag line, I assumed that the SJWs on the front lines of the bathroom wars were using Hillary’s logo for a twofold purpose, to point up the candidate most likely to be their side, while pointing to one of the transgender folk they’re fighting for.
But apparently he’s (enough of) a man so, as to the question of his attractiveness, that’s a difficult one. Not fond of that much beard but then, without it, I think he’d be prettier than me, which is a total turnoff.
Plus, I still think he’d always be stealing my mousse. And my eyeliner.
I’m pretty sure that’s Adam Levine hosting a colony of wasps on his chin.
No. I prefer men who appear confident and comfortable with themselves. This poor fella just looks confused: dough-boy haircut, unkempt beard, sprung undershirt, tattoo sleeve. He’s trying too hard to look like sartorial standards don’t matter. He has nice features but everything else is a mess.
#ManEnough4Hillary? Huma says yes!
Any man whose vote would be swayed by that ad is too stupid or stoned to be allowed to vote.
Hillary is more manly than Huma’s “husband.”
It’s even better if it’s fake, because it shows so clearly how easy Hillary and her campaign are to mock.
Trump. Hillary. Lord knows we deserve and deserved better. But these are the cards we were dealt and the cynic in me is going to enjoy the show, all the way down.
Gamma Male Hipster killed while defending Malta from Islamic hordes said no newspaper ever.
Will I be required to get a tattoo like that when I go to Hillary’s summer camp?
Not to me. Too much beard and way too many tattoos for my taste.
I am man enough to not define myself by utility to women.
Man =/= neutered Housepets
Thispoor wretch is totally a pet.
She’s Chairman Mao cankleistic!
Chloroform In A Pantsuit never looked so human!
Well, she’s got the Dothraki locked up.
Not a chance, dearie ;-)
Yeah. There’s that.
Trying to judge him mostly by what nature gave him (to the extent that’s possible) rather than tats and such, he’s alright. His nose, beard, and eyebrows seem manly enough, and the eyes may be pretty good under the makeup (he looks less made-up in the syphilis ad). Slender build, but not in my book unmanly – just embarrassing if a gal happens to feel like an inflatable sofa by comparison :-)
I would call him naturally handsome. And dominant-enough-looking in the right social circles – after all, to the best of my knowledge, there are some famous pickup artists who look like this –
That Mr Syphilis grooms, inks, and dresses himself in a way that I can’t relate to makes him unattractive to me, but I could easily see him attracting others.
Those must have been fun parts to cast. How often is there an excuse to get so many darkish hunks together, strip them half naked, and douse them with as much eyeliner as possible?
You guys crack me up. Especially after a couple of brewskis.
Here in New York, I’d go with “daily.”
The dude in the photo? Really? All MA and no CHO. A dime a dozen in the groovy coffee houses of Eugene and Portland. Ask the real lumber dudes who they’re voting for and from my experience, it’s not the individual wearing the pantsuit.
Man enough to vote for a woman? BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS!
So…Tucker and Dale as a metaphor for HRCs campaign? She’ll end up claiming all those horrible things she’s said and done were just random convergences? She really just wanted to do what was best “for the country”?
The beard thing on hipsters like the one I saw working as a bagger at a certain warehouse supermarket/home improvement store, I think is an affectation of masculinity taken from all those interviews with special forces guys, many who wore the beards for a much better reason than to look trendy, while they’re pimping out their books on the cable talk shows.
I had not thought to consider beards just an affectation of masculinity, any more than I would have considered armpit hair an affectation of adulthood, or breasts an affectation of femininity. Beards are naturally-occurring. That said, I suppose anything can be styled to look more affected than not.
Do real men use hair gel?
The testosterone surging through us makes us bald, so no.
Beards are strange. They are less work than shaving, but require more commitment. In the age of disposable razors, I’d say it’s harder to have a beard than it is to be clean shaven.
In response to your comment above, and assuming you aren’t wearing a beard for religious or practical reasons, I think a beard is more akin to a push-up bra than it is to the underlying breasts. An enhancement that is sometimes used to cover up insecurities.