Althouse: "The venomous swish of skirt" who occupies The Blue House

March 13, 2013

"The venomous swish of skirt" who occupies The Blue House

A sexist taunt from North Korea.

AND: "This is how Americans live today."

29 comments:

Ignorance is Bliss said...: The venomous swish of skirt sounds more like a lyric you might hear from someone who occupies The House of Blues.; 3/13/13, 9:23 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: See, no matter how awful some country may be, it always has at least one redeeming quality.

Sexist taunts are cool! I enjoy them. May sexist taunts rain down from the heavens like so many nukes.

The Philippines is good for sexist taunts, too. One of my favorite reasons for visiting.; 3/13/13, 9:24 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: I should think the greater insult is that she wears a skirt and not a hanbok.; 3/13/13, 9:27 AM
YoungHegelian said...: Forcing a huge fraction of the population to live on starvation rations: "uhhhhmmmm, OK"

Threatening their neighbors with nuclear attack: "uhhhhhhmmmmmmmm...."

Sexist taunts: "That is just so wrong!....."; 3/13/13, 9:29 AM
edutcher said...: They did that with Maggie Thatcher and Golda Meir.

We all know what happened next.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

The venomous swish of skirt sounds more like a lyric you might hear from someone who occupies The House of Blues.

I was thinking Gatsby sentence.; 3/13/13, 9:33 AM
MayBee said...: I'm not sure it's sexist. They say horrible things about all the other leaders.; 3/13/13, 9:41 AM
Nonapod said...: While I'm sure "swish of skirt" is withering misogyny in Korean it seems like a pretty goofy insult in English.; 3/13/13, 9:41 AM
Anonymous said...: North Korean Gatsby Sentence.; 3/13/13, 9:44 AM
Beta Rube said...: I think their description of a post-Obama America are fairly accurate.; 3/13/13, 9:45 AM
X said...: and Kim Jong Un looks like a lesbian.; 3/13/13, 9:59 AM
n.n said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/13/13, 10:03 AM
n.n said...: As the current administration has seen fit to embrace regime change as foreign policy, it seems that negative emotional responses evoked by rhetorical games is the least concern of Kim Jong-un.; 3/13/13, 10:04 AM
edutcher said...: I'm sure your average Nork looks at that and says, "They get coffee?".; 3/13/13, 10:04 AM
BarrySanders20 said...: What is "Throws like a girl" in Korean?; 3/13/13, 10:06 AM
BarrySanders20 said...: I always thought that would be Obama's Indian name, by the way.

Kevin Costner was Dances With Wolves.

His sweetie was Stands With A Fist.

Obama would be Throws Like A Girl.; 3/13/13, 10:08 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: All propaganda aside, I'm going to assume the North Korean landscapers get their illegal Mexicans from the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, same as here.; 3/13/13, 10:13 AM
traditionalguy said...: Does anyone at the White House have a spare drone?

We should have learned in 1941 that orientals are romantics that want glory. They get glory by striking the USA, and their certain defeat later is irrelevant.; 3/13/13, 10:16 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: While I'm sure "swish of skirt" is withering misogyny in Korean it seems like a pretty goofy insult in English.

It sounds like something that Dashiell Hammett would use or a phrase from an old film noire, maybe staring Humphrey Bogart.; 3/13/13, 10:16 AM
Strelnikov said...: I think I saw my old gym teacher in the video.; 3/13/13, 10:30 AM
edutcher said...: traditionalguy said...

Does anyone at the White House have a spare drone?

We should have learned in 1941 that orientals are romantics that want glory. They get glory by striking the USA, and their certain defeat later is irrelevant

Then how come we've never been attacked by China or Inja?

tg, you really need to stop stereotyping.; 3/13/13, 11:17 AM
Rosalyn C. said...: Something about Kim Jong Un reminds me of Clarence ``Lumpy`` Rutherford from Leave it to Beaver.; 3/13/13, 11:44 AM
traditionalguy said...: Edutcher...But Inja is across the Himalayas from the Orient and not romantic at all.

As for China, have you forgotten what caused the Chosin Reservoir retreat? And what about the Boxer rebellion?; 3/13/13, 11:44 AM
Mary Beth said...: X said...

and Kim Jong Un looks like a lesbian.

3/13/13, 9:59 AM

So, you're calling him fat?

Some of this doesn't seem that different from the propaganda you we get from the American left.; 3/13/13, 11:46 AM
AlanKH said...: Emperor Kim has never seen Dennis Rodman in drag?; 3/13/13, 12:14 PM
Clyde said...: "What's wrong with being sexy?"

-- Nigel Tufnel; 3/13/13, 1:43 PM
Clyde said...: X said...
and Kim Jong Un looks like a lesbian.

And not one of the hot ones you'd like to have a threesome with.; 3/13/13, 1:44 PM
Larry J said...: According to Google Translate, "Throws like a girl" is

여자처럼 던진다 in Korean.

Don't ask me to pronounce it.; 3/13/13, 2:16 PM
Balfegor said...: 여자처럼 던진다 in Korean.

Don't ask me to pronounce it.

Yuh-jah chuh-ruhm duhn-jin-da; 3/13/13, 3:43 PM
Balfegor said...: Re: Mitchell the Bat:

I should think the greater insult is that she wears a skirt and not a hanbok.

There are plenty of photos of Madame Park in hanbok. Do an image search for 박근혜 한복.

Of course, if she wore hanbok every day that would be kind of weird.; 3/13/13, 4:30 PM