"I look like a woman but think like a man."

[Elwood P Dowd]

Dolly Parton on tonight's 60 Minutes.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/02/60minutes/main4914137.shtml

"I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone," she replied.

[Mari333]

1. kind of puts down women and men in one sentence doesnt it nt

[Skittles]

2. correct

[Hello_Kitty]

3. Yeah, but Dolly's awesome so I'll let it slide.

She's 63 years old and has lived an amazing life and done a lot in the community.

[Captain Hilts]

5. Agree, though the expression stings. Dolly's cool. nt

[JI7]

4. i think you have to think about the culture she grew up in

she might have meant she knew how things worked in her business where the men ran things and how she could use it to her advantage.

i have always liked Dolly Parton personally .

[MADem]

10. She is so well preserved (it takes a lot of money to look this cheap) that people

tend to forget that she is from a time when women didn't have many rights, and were expected to sit down, shut up and look "purty."

She was born in the forties, and grew to adulthood BEFORE "women's liberation" and "the pill" and all those attitudes that enabled women to get up and do what they wanted without having to find themselves a man to "take care of them."

Dolly's not putting down anyone. That comment, IMO, is accurately reflective of her life experience. She was disrespected because of her gender, and that was exacerbated by her appearance, specifically, those floatation devices on her chest! She was put down for being a woman, and she "outfoxed" those men who regarded her as a fool by beating them at their own game.

Good for Dolly.

[hedgehog]

13. No, I think she is saying that she used men's prejudices against them .

Because she was a woman, men didn't credit her with being able to think for herself (because the prejudice is that only men understand math).

[SoxFan]

6. "Lola...la,la,la,la Lola..."

:yoiks:

[PM Martin]

7. Consider the culture she was raised in.

Backwards, openly sexist, and oppressive against women.
She had to overcome much to get where she is today.

[Divine Discontent]

8. I like Dolly. I clearly understand what she means. They dismissed her as a dumb dame & she took

the money when she could get it better than most (men) in business do. She's crazy to boot. lol

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Last fall, Dolly told Larry King that we should all support Obama. (nm)

[Quantess]

11. I didn't know Dolly Parton was a lesbian!

...ba dum bum ching...

I guess it was legitimate to say something like that in the 1970s, but it just sounds so hopelessly outdated today.

[Javaman]

12. It's strong enough for a man, but I like it too. nt

[hedgehog]

14. Sit down and watch her movie 9 to 5. You'll be amazed at the

number of viewpoints that were presented as radical then that are accepted as normal today. Some day Dolly Parton will be given credit for helping change the image of woman's liberation as a hobby of the idle rich to a necessity for the working poor and middle class.