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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-04-06 09:07 AM
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57. It is trite.
And women are particularly vulnerable. The story on WH decorating becomes a slam on Hillary, for example. But sexist to comment on hair per se? Hardly. Remember John Tower's haircut? He actually had a favorite barber that made his natural hair look like a badly placed toupee. Biden's plugs? How every president goes gray, except Reagan, and the speculation over, not whether he dyed, but whether he chose an unnatural color intentionally?

I just don't think everything trite, everything insulting, and every disagreement can be conflated with discrimination. Doing so trivializes discrimination on the basis of race or sex.
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