1. Why are you calling this "The Lily"? It's so white.
2. What's with "elevates"? Are you suggesting that you are making stories about women more uplifting or that it's a way of giving affirmative action to stories about women? They're not really such important stories, and they'd be lost on the regular WaPo front page, so you've got to give them a separate place where they can have some stature. Put them on a pedestal.
3. "Stories from... Lily" — it sounds so babyish! Like a little girl chattering about what's important to her. Let women tell their stories. (That's a refrain of the #MeToo movement, by the way.) Let women talk. Over there, where it's not annoying the regular readers.
4. "Pictures of Lily" is a Who song. "Merely a ditty about masturbation and the importance of it to a young man."
5. Yeah, I'm old. I see "Stories from The Lily" and think of "Pictures of Lily" — a 1967 recording. But that means I'm old enough to have read the newspaper when it had a section that was frankly and openly called "the women's pages." "Give me the women's section," the wife might say as the man took the front section with all the hard news. Give the wife the easy non-news. I'd be saying, back then, "Give me the comics." It's all mixed together now.
Posts
68 comments:
Women are a really stupid demographic. It's the brain wiring. Left to right.
The best you can do is domestication, not improvement into being man-like.
That wiring is great at home but awful as a regional interest group.
So much to say there, you didn’t even blog about the top Lily story: Imposter syndrome is real! My first thought was, oh, there it is, women are not really as strong as they claim to be. What horse shit. If you knew my mother, my sisters, my wife, my daughters you’d know women as strong as any man. Good Lord, the Post is becoming the Patriarchy they so despise, delegating women to second-class personhood.
Little Zooks of whom no one was fond
Was launched towards the roof and beyond
The infant's trajectory
Took him over the rectory
And into a lily-choked pond.
Althouse calls out and exposes the inherent sexism of WaPo.
Just watch Rush make this even a bigger story.
It is all about eyeballs and the failing WaPo is desperate. Bezos would be smarter to buy the Althouse blog for $10m; more eyeballs and better content.
Jeff and Ann: I’ll take a 5% commission on the deal. Your check is good with me.
"So much to say there, you didn’t even blog about the top Lily story: Imposter syndrome is real!"
I got tired of it.
Remember I blogged about the imposter syndrome about a week ago. I feel like WaPo is stalking me.
A strong woman is a woman who is straining
A strong woman is a woman standing
on tiptoe and lifting a barbell
while trying to sing “Boris Godunov.”
A strong woman is a woman at work
cleaning out the cesspool of the ages,
and while she shovels, she talks about
how she doesn’t mind crying, it opens
the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up
develops the stomach muscles, and
she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose...
strong women
"It is all about eyeballs and the failing WaPo is desperate. Bezos would be smarter to buy the Althouse blog for $10m; more eyeballs and better content."
Bezos needs to hit my PayPal button. Bezos or some other billionaire. Would it kill you to hand me a million dollars? After all I've done for you...
A lily is pure, as all women are. And it is evocative, reminding one of the vulva, a uniquely female part of the human anatomy although the stamen, that, unfortunately, is penis-like. And women need safe spaces, free of the phallus. Damn you lily.
Lily Weymouth is K Graham's daughter.
Ann
Carpe diem. You need to be more like a Jesuit: A contemplative in action. A good investment banker in media could broker a deal for you. No lie. And, again, I accept checks or AMZN stock for my tip.
Put Meade to work on this. He’s your man.
One condition: Bezos will not exert any creative control over Althouse.
I can see those cuffs adding to the fun, and the ruffles can be useful, too.
What is it about women that we need so much fluffing?
CBS just teased an interview with Kristin Ritter about her new season of "Jessica Jones" and why she says its empowering for all women. Yesterday, we were told the new movie from "A Wrinkle In Time" is empowering.
Why do we women need so much empowering all the time? The book "A Wrinkle in Time" is 50 years old. If women still aren't "empowered", maybe we need to re-evaluate what being empowered means.
"It's all mixed together now." The feminization of everything: sports, engineering, "news," you name it.
Waiting for the equivalent men's publication: The Cave? The La-Z-Boy?
So Womens' stories go to the Lily, willy-nilly. Silly.
One of the choices at the end of The Who video has Led's Zeppelin!
Librul MSM's #1 goal is to divide and conquer us Normals.
Heard a media guy on CNBC today. Scripted series cost $4m per hour while reality shows are only $400k per hour.
Bezos will burn through at least $5m on The Lily. Althouse is a bargain at $5m.
I take it this is not in the Lili Marlene class. That song was so true to emotions that when it was played at night it caused unofficial cease fires between soldiers. We need a truce in the War of Women on Men again.
Women are incredibly powerful.
The media courts and flatters women above every other group.
In every election within my lifetime, women voters were the most prized and sought after group.
Once again, the professor points at the self-evident proof of the power of women as evidence that women are victims of something.
Imposter Syndrome is Really Real!
Would it kill you to hand me a million dollars? After all I've done for you.
You don’t get rich giving away money.
Yesterday's Christian Sommers bit was yet another deliberate attempt by the professor to ignore the obvious.
The battle in that video was between a physically fit, sexually desirable woman and morbidly obese, sexually undesirable women. Sommers even stuck in the knife a bit by wearing a leopard print fuck me coat to the event.
The morbidly obese, undesirable women are clearly angry because men don't want to fuck them. Sexual starvation drives them to being overwhelmed by their rape fantasies.
Feminism is the ultimate White Knight responding to the Damsel in Distress bedroom strategy. Althouse isn't just the Damsel in Distress facing a single evil male enemy. She's facing off against the evil hereto men as a Marxist class. This gets the steam roiling out of Meade's ears. He gets to play the enlightened White Knight fighting off the unenlightened evil hereto men.
It's Althouse and Meade against the evil world of the bad hetero men.
It's a great seduction strategy for the egg head woman. Althouse plays it well. She must be fun in bed. However, taking your bedroom seduction games out into the political arena and pretending they have some relationship to reality really fucks things up.
I was trying to read about the disastrous Bachelor finale but lost interest after the second sentence of the gory details.
Talk about women who need fluffing, Maybee.
Does Althouse have better content than Tom Friedman, David Brooks and Maureen Dowd? The question answers itself. And she writes every single day!
Moreover none of those clowns can provide good visual content with photos and videos like Ann can. I would also bet that none of them are familiar with vagina dentura. But I could be wrong on that last point; especially with Dowd.
"Does Althouse have better content than Tom Friedman, David Brooks and Maureen Dowd? The question answers itself."
Of course. And slightly OT: This also calls into question GDP measurements. Althouse has created tremendous value that is essentially free to consumers. But it does not show up in the stats.
Don't shame the Latin master at Creighton Prep, David B., ha; dentata, you meant.
Bonus. Son JAC can keep the blog going 10-15 years from now. Family dynasty business.
About the original Lily
First newspaper published by and for women-- in the mid 1800's.
Marc
I blame spell check. And I took Spanish at Prep!
I love Keith Moon. On these lypsync pre-recorded / playbacks he always goofed on the drums instead of trying to play the track.
“What is it about women that we need so much fluffing?”
And how are women not offended by it? If you’re being patronized you’re being treated as less than equal. What’s the difference between Black History Month on PBS and a skinhead on a street corner screaming, “Nigger!”? At heart, very little.
Lilies of the Field
It tells the story of an African American itinerant worker who encounters a group of East German nuns, who believe he has been sent to them by God to build them a new chapel.
"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin."
When Homer Simpson becomes a newspaper food critic:
Editor: Listen, you've got to shape up. Next week is the Taste of Springfield festival. You'll be reviewing every restaurant in town. Remember, people have certain expectations about the LifeWays section.
Homer: Really, like what?
Editor: Oh, I don't know. Astrology, "Brunhilda," vacation horror stories, articles about chronic fatigue syndrome. You know, chick crap.
Though a huge Who fan in my early teens, it took me years to realize what Pictures of Lily was about. Talk about being in denial...
Althouse said: "Remember I blogged about the imposter syndrome about a week ago. I feel like WaPo is stalking me."
Funny, that was my thought, too, You blogged about it, then blogged again saying you were tired of it. I don't blame you. But I thought it was particularly nasty the Post has decided Imposter Syndrome is a women's issue. Most of the imposters I know are men.
But I don't blame you for moving on. What is current today in DC was old news in Madison weeks ago.
Umm, perhaps you're over-analyzing this?
Women buy lots of stuff, the WaPo and other newspapers are desperate for advertising revenue, and someone probably thinks this sort of soft self-esteem boosting "you're a women and women are sooo great!" helps to put readers into a space where they're receptive to "don't you deserve to own the best?" advertising.
The fastest growing group of veterans deserves the fastest growing amount of recognition, whatever "recognition" means.
Meanwhile, in stories about men, a new GI Joe will be released for International Let God Sort Them Out Day.
Why are you calling this "The Lily"? It's so white.
Well, some lilies are white. Day lilies are many colors, often yellow. Tiger lilies are bright orange.
The kind of pandering employed by advertisers has long nauseated me and I'm sure I'm not the only one disgusted by the 'super-woman' ploy. Remember this horrible TV commercial?
I can bring home the bacon,
Fry it up in a pan.
And never ever let you forget you're a man.
Ye gods and little catfishes! Even as a career woman, I would have preferred to read recipes and housekeeping tips than the constant 'you are special, you are amazing, 'be an elf to yourself' [a real motto for a magazine], you deserve blah, blah, blah.
Day lilies aren't "true" lilies, but most lilies aren't white. The ones I bought didn't come up the second year. Curiously, they were from White Flower Farm.
I read years ago that the "lilies of the field" were actually Iris.
Maybe Solomon knows.
Seems like the fleur-de-lis gets used a lot in emblems.
The lion. The horse. The eagle.
The spider? Not so much.
How many of you broad-shouldered women were that way at 21?
"Imposter Syndrome is a women's issue."
Thesis: feminism turns women into imposters. Discuss.
"The Althouse Blog Brought to you by Jeff Bezos"
I'd still click. Maybe.
David Begley said...
Does Althouse have better content than Tom Friedman, David Brooks and Maureen Dowd? The question answers itself. And she writes every single day!
If you aren’t careful you will realize those people are not paid to write for and entertain intelligent people. They are paid to influence democrat voters and define the Overton window.
Bezos has tools for a purpose.
Lilies are funereal.
Gild that lily, Wapo!
mockturtle,
I could swear that that wasn't a TV commercial, but the theme song to some long-ago sitcom.
Re: lilies, just keep your cats away from them, because they're all incredibly toxic if you happen to be a cat. Not just lily of the valley, which will kill you, too, if you nosh on it, but all the other lilies as well. We have a cat named Lili (really silly Lili!), but she's not gonna meet her namesake if I can help it.
That song was for Enjoli cologne.
And it was what? 40 years ago? Two generations have been brought up on this. Enough!!
And yes, you can tell it's pandering, because you could never get away with a man doing this (or doing half the things women do on tv and in commercials.)
If you do worthwhile things, they don’t need to be elevated.
They also don’t require attention of others.
The people who read the WAPO are generally empty.
MDT says: I could swear that that wasn't a TV commercial, but the theme song to some long-ago sitcom.
Enjoli commercial
Women buy lots of stuff, the WaPo and other newspapers are desperate for advertising revenue, and someone probably thinks this sort of soft self-esteem boosting "you're a women and women are sooo great!" helps to put readers into a space where they're receptive to "don't you deserve to own the best?" advertising.
But that's the problem!
1- why do women need or want this?
2- why do women accept this pandering, if it is about advertising?
3- what kind of woman wants to be pandered to this way, and what is she expecting out of life?
4- it should be pushed back against, because it isn't healthy to constantly be pandered to. It is certainly not a pathway to equality or power.
Enjoli
The 8-hour perfume for the 24-hour woman.
16 hours of stank.
mockturtle said...
MDT says: I could swear that that wasn't a TV commercial, but the theme song to some long-ago sitcom.
Enjoli commercial
3/7/18, 9:40 AM
That was GREAT! What is the problem?
I think that was the time Teflon pans were coming into fashion, I recall a contemporaneous ad...a woman's hand showing engagement ring, beginning with "a diamond's the hardest substance known to man," then a chicken falls on the ring wearing lady's hand and "but you can't cook on it" and on to the new nonstick pan...
Good times.
Interestingly, my older daughter bought me Enjoli for Christmas one year because, bless her heart, she saw me in the commercial and thought I'd appreciate it. I never told her how I hated that ad and I wore the perfume on occasion for her sake. ;-)
I read "imposter syndrome" as Trans...probably not what they intended.
People makes deals with you because they think they’ll make money out of you. It would ruin my writer’s mind to get into that position.
I am just suggesting that some rich reader give me a million dollars as a strings-free gift just out of love for this blog.
PayPal takes its cut so other methods would be better for a transfer that large. Consider a bequest.
I am just suggesting that some rich reader give me a million dollars as a strings-free gift just out of love for this blog.
By that standard, you should throw Laslo a fuck in return for his valuable comments. Happily sex is not taxable.
The Post name is highly appropriate. No flower is more Victorian than a lily; the goal of modern woke feminism is to turn young women into vulnerable fainting-couch victims.
The Japanese word for "lily" is "yuri".
Like English, it's also used as a female name.
It's also a word that refers to lesbians; specifically to lesbian literature. So, a good choice for a "women's news" outlet?
Is it being suggested that the testator hasten his departure from this life in order to benefit AA? dead for love?
I thought the lily symbolized a vagina. It's like calling the men's section The Sausage. Though I guess The Post works pretty well too.
It's like calling the men's section The Sausage.
And, in small-handed Austria, The Vienna Sausage.
Enjoli modified a 1962 Peggy Lee hit, "I'm a Woman" for its commercial.
"Imposter syndrome" refers to someone who lacks self-confidence. Women probably are more prone to it, but it's common for everyone.
I agree that "The Lily" is a weird choice due its association with whiteness, purity and fragility and that creating a special section for "women's stories" is patronizing.
The arc of feminism bends toward flacidity.
The Germans have a word for flacidity: Schlapp.
Post a Comment