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CNN Is Now Counting Statues
The grievance industry is always finding new issues to stoke the fires of unhappiness. It’s possible that CNN is hoping to double the one viewer it has who is not trapped in an airport.
Really? Is this true? I always assumed it was just . . . inertia. “Eh, Charlie, put on something in the lounge on the orange concourse. One o’ them news channels.” And they just put it on CNN about 30 years ago, and nobody’s ever changed the channel or turned it off.
Post “Hidden Figures”, the contributions of some women are exaggerated. Assume that 999 men and one woman made significant contributions to a project such as GPS. The one women’s role will be emphasized just to make it fair.
Yep. That’s why it’s not “normal” CNN, but “The CNN Airport Network”.
I think CNN may even provide the monitors.
I was in John Wayne, Burbank, and Phoenix airports last week. Thank God none of them had CNN on the monitors…even at the gates. They all had sports. Actually, they all had golf: The Tour Championship. It was the richest payout in sports, or so they claimed. The winner got $15 million. Plus the payouts were high all the way down the line. Last place won $400 K. Tenth place won $830 K. Anything but CNN was a winner for me.
As Drew Klavan says, men always go first, and it’s true. There would be no women in space if men hadn’t taken the risks and pushed the technological envelope first. Same with every field I can think of. Women are just going to have to deal with it. We’re gifted in our own ways, but men advance civilization because they’re less risk averse, among other things.
Oh lord. The thought horrifies me.
How do you feel about statues of Michelle, with her toned arms and all. Brace yourself.
Statues of moms!
Or we could just send them a Cross of Honor for wonking out new taxpayers.
There are lots of statues of women: The Statue of Liberty for example. And don’t forget the little bratty girl in front of the rampaging bull in NYC.
That’s how lefties picture themselves, not realizing they’ve become the bull.
So, if we change the sex on that statue in Charlottesville to “Roberta E. Lee”, she can stay?
Waffle House owes Mr. Swartwout’s descendants reparations!
They certainly provide cash to some airports . . .
Only if Lee sincerely identifies as female.
I’m pretty sure the bull is the hero in that story . . .
What sort of person gets upset about the sex of statues? Perhaps this itself is evidence that virtually all the sex-based discrimination that matters has been eradicated.
If we are going to try to add to the stock of statues of women I would suggest that instead of Hillary and Michelle that we start with the unsung women who served as clandestine agents and spies during the world wars. There were a lot of very brave women who performed heroically and whose contributions, though mostly secret at the time, were instrumental in helping the good guys win those wars.
One of my favorite statues of a woman. “The Old Drunken Woman” in the Capitoline Museums.
At first I meant this to ridicule the complainers, but then I realized that nihilistic post modernists actually would probably rather prefer this view of women. It’s very “Paul Auster” in theme.
I’m too lazy to Duck this when I could just ask…so who are you talking about, already? Not Dorothy Parker. Not Lucille Ball.
Only the south end of the bull.
Statutory rapists.
Can’t wait to force candidates to choose a side on the Waffle Issue.
Only if they are wearing flip-flops at the time.
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