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Head Weasel Has Botoxed Brain

NOW President Terry O’Neill is whining about the so called Bo-Tax, which I at first thought had something to do with paying for the upkeep of  Obama’s dog, but no, it’s apparently a five percent tax on cosmetic surgery meant to help pay for America’s new health care reforms.

Given that this tax applies only to surgery that is basically nothing more than vanity work, one wouldn’t except any objections from left wing feminists, but  O’Neill  complains that the tax will unfairly impact old harridans who are insecure about their looks. Weasel-woman however, is too cunning to just say it straight out, so she uses some crap about finding work as the cover for wanting to help the gals who finance NOW get some cheap tummy tucks…

“They have to find work. And they are going for Botox or going for eye work, because the fact is we live in a society that punishes women for getting older,” O’Neill cried hysterically to the New York Times, after all who else would publish a feminist complaint this stupid?

“And now they are going to put a tax on middle-aged women in a society that devalues them for being middle aged?” she added with much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth.

This bizarre outburst led to an equally  bizarre article by  Judith Warner (also of the New York Times, because well, who else would want to expand on a feminist complaint this stupid?) in which Warner not only gives O’Neill a chance to whine about being a wrinkly bag of bones…

“I am 57 years old. I really sympathize with women who are out of the job market, wondering, will anyone even take me seriously?”

… but also uses this latest atrocity against the female sex  to trot out a laundry list of  equally dubious complaints…

“This is what happens when equal pay stalls, abortion rights wither, and attempts to improve child care and workplace flexibility die on the legislative vine year after year. Women’s empowerment becomes a matter of a tight face and a flat belly. You control what you can control. And so many middle-aged women feel particularly out of control now, as indeed they are, in these life plan-wrecking economic times.”

This passage seems to me to add up to the idea that if we don’t let millions of over the hill MILF wannabes have their cake as well as their liposuction we are oppressing the wiminz! Ms Warner also takes the opportunity to point out that rich white women are oppressed by claiming  that Katie Couric, Lily Tomlin and Gloria Steinem are all afraid they’ll end up as bag ladies! See, when you’re a woman, even wealth and power are burdens.

Displaying great ability in the craft of being unintentionally ironic, Warner also carps that the attempts to liberate women from being seen by pop culture as a  “mindless-boob-girlie symbol,” have failed. Well, with even supposedly intelligent women voicing opinions as moronic as those above, is it any wonder that we prefer the likes of Britney Spears? Spears and her ilk  may be stupid, but at least they are still young and good looking – once you’re old as well as stupid, unless you can make me some pancakes like grandma used to you’re really not much use are you?

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