Stop Slut-Shaming Melania Trump
There are times when our opponents will go low and we will go high. There are times that we will respond with a rage they have never seen. (Not going to happen, but a man can wish can’t he?) But slut-shaming Melania Trump is not a legitimate attack on her or her husband. You are mimicking the same misogynist behavior that other reprehensible people have.
Defending Melania Trump from being slut-shamed and reduced to a “thing” rather than a person, doesn’t mean having to defend Donald Trump if you disagree deeply with his message. He himself, after all, seems to be pushing her body and her beauty as a selling-point.
Ultimately, the nude photos are irrelevant. They tell nothing about Melania Trump’s character or her ethics, and they certainly tell us nothing of Donald Trump’s.
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What state do I have to live in, or what bottom-feeding social media do I have to follow, to see slut-shaming of Melania Trump? I agree that would be awful but I haven’t seen it yet.
OK, I didn’t see the embedded link to the NY Post article. But what that’s what the NY Post does, for entirely capitalistic and apolitical reasons. It’s not like there’s a trend.
No. That’s what a ton of people do. This behavior isn’t limited to the NY Post. It’s not a trend because it is effing normal behavior.
If slut-shaming Melania is so normal, what other normal places do you see it?
The NY post has never needed a special reason to post a nude photo. If they had one of Donald Trump they would print that too (yeesh!).
I guess that your social media accounts are pretty restricted if you don’t see it.
Saw it on Facebook feeds–not just individual feeds, but sponsored ones–at least a dozen times yesterday.
“saw it on Facebook feeds…”
I mean original instances of Melania slut-shaming, not just reposts or references to the same NY Post article. And yes, I restrict myself 100% from Facebook.
It been going on for a while – HuffPo, yahoo, Daily Beast. It’s really been out there.
I pity her and every women that has had to marry a rich pig like Trump for security, if it doesn’t work she’ll get a hush money settlement like the other two.
what do you mean by slut-shaming here? pointing out that she has indentured herself to a fat, ugly, insensitive asshole twice her age so she can have a lot of money?
It was about her pictures. But your words are pretty damn close. Congratulations!
Apparently the liberals here will roll over and say anything before they’ll run the risk of being accused of being insensitive to someone somewhere. That just cost you an important election.
The pictures are noteworthy because they demonstrate that her “modeling” career wasn’t about the runway. We call people who pose for those pictures “porn stars.”
She’s a mail-order bride. The man set up a modeling agency mainly so he didn’t have to pick his paramours out of a catalogue. All he did was eliminate the middleman. Whether that makes her a prostitute is a matter of where you draw the line.
By the way, she’s not a slut. Nude pictures don’t make you a slut. They make you a person who will pose nude for money. A porn star. And, in her case, an illegal immigrant one.
The notion that they say nothing about her character or ethics is complete bullshit. You don’t get to tell me what my ethics are. Y’all wouldn’t call Bill Clinton what he was, and you’re still trying to normalize that by pretending it was all OK. It wasn’t and it still isn’t — yet you actually tried to defeat Trump while pretending B Clinton did nothing wrong.
Correction to what I wrote above: Y’all want society to stop shaming porn stars and you intend to do it by shaming racists and misogynists? How well did that work? Why are you impervious to noticing that you are your own worst enemies?
“Y’all wouldn’t call Bill Clinton what he was, and you’re still trying to normalize that by pretending it was all OK. It wasn’t and it still isn’t”
Yeah, except I didn’t do that. I called Bill out – on this very blog.
Sorry, but most conservatives around the country didn’t hear you. And nominating her forced us to defend it — or rather to call it a distraction rather than a disgrace — all over again. I do tend to use the second person when I don’t mean it as a singular. Some languages let you do that, ours doesn’t, so let me use “we.”
Team Trump admitted two weeks before Election Day that their strategy was to make people sick of the whole thing and stay home. It worked. Will you at least acknowledge that?
We nominated a flawed candidate and Trump exploited those flaws, while we failed to exploit his flaws in the ways El Som suggested — putting the small business owners he screwed front and center.
Instead Clinton’s team went with the ads that tested best with whatever group they thought were the swing voters, and then never updated them. They used the same ads throughout the contest. Never an ad that touted her proposals for infrastructure spending. No sound-bite name for that proposal — one that’s so popular the stock markets are (irrationally, IMHO) gaining on the hope that he means it when he says he’ll spend to create infrastructure jobs.
But no, running on that message was less important than making everyone feel included and that we were (no specifics) stronger together. First thing they teach you in writing class: Be specific. Trump was, even though they are lies.
It’s called a 50-state strategy for a reason — the same appeal doesn’t work with every audience. Instead we said “there are more of us than you,” which is only true when we are motivated to vote. Texas hasn’t elected a Demcrat statewide for 20 years, yet there have been more registered Ds than Rs the entire time.
What anonymous said. We can all pretend that other people’s sexual escapades have no bearing on our opinion of them, but that’s a fantasy you can peddle somewhere else. And the wives of presidents are expected to behave within certain boundaries of decorum that our friends on the right have chosen to include baring of of the upper arms. Baring of the pubic area is a far cry from that region. If we are going to dispense with the idea that the behavior of our president elect’s wife has no impact on our national reputation, I suggest we pretend many other things don’t matter as well. Where to start…
Two things we do know about Melania: She doesn’t seem to have original thoughts (hence the cribbed Michelle Obama quotes in her convention speech); and she has no sense of irony (her exhortations about cyber-bullying).
I’ve seen enough slut-shaming of Melania Trump to make me Google it to see if anyone was calling it out, which is how I came upon this page.
I was shocked yesterday to be unfriended on facebook by Captain of the NH Democratic Party (whose friend request I had, interestingly enough, only received and accepted the day before), for questioning why people were making slut-shaming comments about Melania, in retaliation for hateful insults recently tweeted about Michelle Obama’s physical appearance (which was the topic of the original post), as if insulting Melania did anything to get back at those who had insulted Michelle.
At first, they claimed to be pointing out conservative hypocrisy, but the more they elaborated their positions, it was clear that they were shaming Melania over having posed for nude photos 20 years ago, asserting that it made her “disgusting,” “low-class,” and “unfit to be first lady.” Then I began to be chastised for saying that slut-shaming her was unfair, and for defending women’s right to do as they please with their own bodies, and was ultimately removed from the conversation without warning for having expressed my objection.
What is going on with my liberal sisters? We’ve always been against slut-shaming of any woman, for any reason, and supported freedom of sexual expression for all women. Has that changed now that Trump is the president elect? Do those tenets now only apply to women we like? Or whose husbands we like?
While I’m sure there are some liberal women joining in on this bad behavior, most are not. Go to feminist websites if you don’t believe me.
Is this the ASMR Heather Feather?
The ASMR? What does that stand for?
Not a fan of slut-shaming, but this does have the look of chickens coming home to roost.
She is a slut. She should be ashamed. Period.
Yes, but where were YOU when conservatives were criticizing Michelle Obama’s bare arms on display on a magazine cover? Or when her daughters were shamed for wearing short skirts?
No way in hell a minority woman who posed nude would ever have a whiff of a chance of becoming the FLOTUS. Love US-style hypocrisy.