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Morty » Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:16 pm wrote:If it was a genuine response, the only thing I can think is maybe Trump was looking past her to his daughter for acknowledgement, in that moment when the speaker had just put forward the notion that God was looking down approvingly on Trump's presidency. That could do it.
Morty » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:16 am wrote:If it was a genuine response, the only thing I can think is maybe Trump was looking past her to his daughter for acknowledgement, in that moment when the speaker had just put forward the notion that God was looking down approvingly on Trump's presidency. That could do it.
The Incredible Life Of Nude Model Turned Billionaire Turned Bankrupt Divorcée Patricia Kluge (NSFW)
Apr. 8, 2011
Embattled socialite Patricia Kluge filed for personal bankruptcy last week, months after Bank of America foreclosed on her massive Virginia estate and Donald Trump bought her winery for a song.
Kluge was once married to TV mogul and Metromedia founder John Kluge, whom Forbes at one time named the richest man in the world.
Born to middle class parents in Baghdad, Kluge lived a true rags-to-riches fairytale until the recession took its toll
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http://www.businessinsider.com/patricia ... tos-2011-6
km artlu » Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:19 pm wrote:Jesus fucking wept.
I was partially raised when in my teens by high-end hookers...taught about how to survive without a net; sheltered and lovingly cared for. As far as I can discover they're all dead now, and they all died before they reached fifty. "Sex workers". Give me a break.
Their misery and self-loathing, their slides into oblivion, all had nothing to do with prostitution being illegal They operated at a level that was immune to law enforcement.
Anyone who equates fucking for money with feminism is insane.
The voters have spoken and Melania Trump is our next first lady. Typically, I wouldn’t give advice to someone about to occupy the east wing of the White House, but Trump has said that she plans to use her new platform to help combat cyberbullying.
“We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children, especially in social media,” she said at a recent campaign speech in Pennsylvania. “It will be one of the main focuses of my work, if I am privileged enough to become your first lady.”
Cordelia wrote:I remember Melania said that, if she became First Lady, she wanted to make anti-(cyber)bullying her w.h.project, which seems richly ironic.
We should be kind to America's First Victim — Melania Trump
My heart goes out to Melania Trump. Admittedly, my heart goes out a lot of places I'd rather it didn't, often in the middle of the night in naughty clothes. This time, though, I mean it. Married to the world's most powerful sociopath, mocked and humiliated by left and right alike, a salon-styled lightning rod for all of America's weird feelings about women, foreigners and politicians, you’ve got to wonder who Melania, born Melanija Knavs in rural Slovenia, can really trust.
Certainly not the liberal press. In a rare instance of actually saying words in public, the future first lady made a speech in a Maryland courthouse where she is pursuing a libel suit against a local blogger and a British tabloid newspaper. In the heavy accent that many believe kept her off a campaign trail ringing with dogwhistle xenophobia, Melania restated in the vaguest terms her stand against cyber-bullying, launched days before the election, when she lamented, apparently with no irony, that “Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough.”
It's easy to mock this position, and progressives have duly done so. After all, the wife of the bully-in-chief speaking out against online harassment is not unlike Mary Todd Lincoln coming out against sideburns, or Eva Braun starting an inter-faith community centre. But what if something else is going on? What if this, in a veiled, desperate way, is a cry for help?
I'm not the first to notice this — SE Smith writes at XoJane that: “When a shy, retiring woman speaks out and the first words out of her lips are about a dangerously abusive culture, that sounds a little bit like a woman asking for help.” When Melania speaks, more than any of Trump’s adoring female entourage, she looks like someone with a gun discreetly pointed at her back, with her necklines so high her clothes seem to be trying to strangle her and that rictus smile that never reaches her eyes.
That smile is strangely familiar. It took me a long time to work out why, until I saw it on my own face in a shop window, a few seconds after an encounter with a gentleman in the street who took time out of his busy day for a stroll-by appreciation of my backside. It's the smile you give to street harassers and drunk strangers who corner you at parties when you've lost your friends. It's the smile you give someone who you're afraid of, someone who might hurt you if you make them feel bad. The lines of that smile are etched into Melania's face under the makeup, and now she's training it on the world. I would have a crumb of respect for Trump if he were married to someone equally ruthless and conniving — a Claire Underwood figure, perhaps, a Lady Macbeth for the digital age who we’d all love to hate. That’s not how Trump wants his women. Trump will not be talked back to. His women do what he says, or else. His women must not get old, put on weight, or step out of line. What will happen to Melania if she starts to show her age?
Imagine being in her position. Imagine being married to that man, having to live with him, back him up, soothe his ego, deal with his tantrums. Her marriage will be under relentless scrutiny for the rest of her life, just as her body has been since she did her first catwalk at the age of five, but if anyone raises the alarm, we'll be told it's music and ordered to dance. Do we think that the ham-faced, race-baiting, woman-hating monster about to waltz into the White House respects his third wife as a person? This is a man who slut-shames and humiliates any woman who stands in his way, who is on record boasting about “grabbing women by the pussy”, whose first divorce was granted on grounds of “cruel and inhuman treatment”. In the gauntlet of horrific appointments to the new cabinet — an oil magnate and alleged friend of Russia as Secretary of State, a hero of the alt right movement as Chief Strategist, and Cruella De Vil presumably overseeing Animal Welfare — Trump’s history of violent misogyny seems to have slipped from view. But we must not forget it.
No, Mrs Trump is not the most unfortunate woman in America right now. She will be unaffected by many of the more venal policies of her husband’s cronies, and as the mother of an ex boyfriend once told me, if you must cry, it's nice to be able to cry in the back of a Porsche. But there are all sorts of cages you can keep a woman in — ask the wife of any Saudi Prince — and this, now, is what American girls are being taught to aspire to. Costlier chains. Shinier bars.
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I am frightened for Melania Trump. This is a person who cannot put a foot wrong, ever. This is a person whose nude photos and immigration status are the subject of ridicule by those who should know better, because of what these facts supposedly say about her husband. Patriarchy is not a game any woman can win, and Melania is playing it on nightmare mode, in the version where you have to sleep with the end-level boss. The man she is married to has a thug’s understanding of consent and every intention of screwing the world, violently if necessary. How we treat his First Victim sets the tone for the fight to come. Be kind.
parel » Thu Jan 26, 2017 5:49 pm wrote:km artlu » Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:19 pm wrote:Jesus fucking wept.
I was partially raised when in my teens by high-end hookers...taught about how to survive without a net; sheltered and lovingly cared for. As far as I can discover they're all dead now, and they all died before they reached fifty. "Sex workers". Give me a break.
Their misery and self-loathing, their slides into oblivion, all had nothing to do with prostitution being illegal They operated at a level that was immune to law enforcement.
Anyone who equates fucking for money with feminism is insane.
I'm 55 and I am not dead.
My body is my business.
The misogyny in that article Heavenly Swan posted is just suffocating. The mean feminism of white radfems and their disgusting imaginations. Unable to give sex workers any credit for having minds and souls. Wrongly calling provision of sexual services "sale of the body". That kind of crap. Gah. Nowhere does it even make the claim that Melania was a sex worker.
It's misogyny against women who believe in bodily autonomy (as opposed to the property of the state) designed to smear Melania Trump.
She has not disclosed she was ever a sex worker. afaik.
Playboy is not sex work.
Sir Walter Scott'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
T H E A R T O F T H E S T E A L
A stunning white designer dress,
A lovely speech, no sign of stress,
Some platitudes, but I digress,
In general, a poised address,
Designed to placate and impress,
And deemed at first a great success.
But soon . . . an unpredicted mess
That Trump’s campaign could not finesse,
With Donald’s damsel in distress!
Yes, Twitter beat the mainstream press
In finding words that more or less
Were copied from a fine address
Michelle delivered with noblesse.
They hate Obama; nonetheless,
They cribbed from him to gain success.
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