Hollywood Double Standard

All of this gushing over yet another Hollywood starlet trying to climb into politics makes me want to vomit:

 The idea of a Sen. Judd joining Sens. Gillibrand, Warren, and Baldwin is pretty exciting. No matter what she chooses to do next, we can count on Ashley Judd to stand up for women and for the marginalized everywhere.

Unless of course the women in question don’t have “flawless” skins and are so lazy that they wear size 6 or – the horror, the horror! – even size 8. If said women manage to have “visible wrinkles,” I’m sure the wrinkle-obsessed senator will have no use for these imperfect, ugly creatures.

If people were less in thrall to the aura of Hollywood, I’m sure they would notice that any non-Hollywood politician who said things that are as egregiously offensive to women as what Judd has said, that politician would see the fury of feminist organizations unleashed against her or him like a tsunami.

Folks, being a Hollywood starlet doesn’t make one special. All Hollywood does is produce very stupid, low-quality entertainment aimed to anaesthesize people’s brains into complete idiocy. You wouldn’t hire Hollywood starlets to fill your teeth, cook your food, or repair your plumbing. Why, then, do you think they are qualified to run your country?

Demand that the lazy Dems provide qualified candidates instead of humiliating their constituents by allowing this kind of people to run.

P.S. Yes, I’m resentful about the suggestion that women who look like me are flawed and lazy, and that resentment is not going away. Not even Sarah Palin has ever made me feel so marginalized for my appearance.