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[iverglas]

51. I'm seeing a distinction without a difference

An entire thread devoted to a woman's appearance/fashion choices.

Michelle Obama may have great merit as a human being. Personally, I find anyone who chooses to play the role of "first lady" aka "little woman" to be wasting space. Just my opinion. And that thread is wasting more space.

There is nothing said in that thread about her being "capable" and "intelligent". Oh, well: Stunning and radiant AND brains to boot! What's not to be enchanted by??? Brains, the afterthought.

And maybe there are threads at DU about her capability and inteligence, but I think there are a lot more about her body and clothing. (I find her fashion choices utterly horrific for the most part, but I say so in my living room, not on the internet, because I do choose not to reduce women to their appearance.)

Threads feel different ways to different people, I guess.

I don't think "hot" is restricted to the sense you give it, at all, at least not the sense that "fuckability" is a function of appearance, and specifically appearance as measured by a stereotypical standard. And I'm not persuaded that is the only sense in which it was used in the thread initially in issue here. As I've said, others may have more backstory that makes that interpretation more plausible.

Personally, I think Joe Biden is extremely hot.