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In reply to the discussion: hey, guess what! turns out, michelle wolf is a woman! [View all]haele
(15,028 posts)They're going directly to the "lookism" argument, suggesting that a backhanded complement about a desired eye shadow effect is an insult to Ms. Sander's personal appearance.
Which suggests to me that as they obviously already find Ms. Sander's looks off-putting, they go directly to "the comments are an attack on her ugliness" rather than a comment about how Ms. Sanders can use her lies to create an effect.
I took the comment as an observation on the effects of the way Ms. Sanders lies constantly for her boss. The criticism was a rather clever play on a commercial ad.
But that may be because I'm a fat, happily grumpy old woman secure enough in my talents and work ethics that I know shallow people should stay in the kiddie pool if they live to be insulted about everything.
Whenever I comment on her looks, I always point out it looks as if she were often hit in the jaw or on the side of her forehead with some form of stick or heavy object as a child, perhaps from one of the psychopathic brothers. My mom has a similar curious dent above her brow line from when her brother hit her hard with a Coke bottle when he was 11 and she was 7, though not as obvious as Ms. Sanders.
And that it's pretty obvious Ms. Sanders stress-eats - and has a staff that doesn't like her very much. And that's usually as far as I go.
Haele