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11/09/09
Just to pick two universally known examples, how about Oprah (self-made multi-media mogul who humanizes herself with her weight struggles = loved) vs. Martha Stewart (self-made multi-media mogul who makes a point of displaying her prowess at...everything = hated), but this isn't about a laundry list of famous people. I think it's about a deep national ambivilence with the idea that someone else may have it better than us, so we're constantly looking to take people down a peg if they don't do it themselves.
But one thing I have learned about French women is that they generally don't give a [rodent's posterior] about being liked. Maybe that attitude is most difficult of all for American women to accept?
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It's Dan Brown syndrome. It's easier to hate on someone who seems no more talented than you are. #mireilleguiliano
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Now, it's one thing to co-opt the word "bitch" if you're describing a woman who doesn't subject herself to the patriarchal standards of what a nice girl should be. That's very different than conforming to most of society's rules (torturing yourself and others in order to stay thin is very, very conventional), and just being a bad person while doing it. If someone is only destructive to themselves, they have my sympathy. But when they start being destructive to others, and doing it proudly, there needs to be some negative reinforcement from the world at large. NOT a book deal. #mireilleguiliano
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There should be a special circle of hell for that. Maybe it's circle 5.5 (between wrath and heresy). #mireilleguiliano
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Sounds like Giuliano's got a case of the Hillary Clintons--hated for stupid reasons people would never hate a man for. #mireilleguiliano
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And I swear I'm not a smug TV non-owner.
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Not trying to say nobody would ever hate a man for being smug, but I'm saying that she faced certain criticisms that men do not.
I was going on the reasons sadie gave for people disliking her based on "smugness," etc rather than a substantial reason which is much of the criticism hillary faced and faces. So i think the comparison still stands. #mireilleguiliano
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Snark snark snark. Hate observations like this. #mireilleguiliano
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Americans don't like being unfavorably compared with the French, period. #mireilleguiliano
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There, if French women read that (translated, naturellement), they'll get fat. #mireilleguiliano
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That being said, I like her writing style, and most of what she says is sound - don't eat when you're bored, take a half-hour walk everyday, etc. - but I'm still a little baffled that she's managed to construct an empire around what strikes me as little more than common sense. #mireilleguiliano
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I'm thinking of writing a whole series of books based on the awesomesness that is Canadian women.
Hmmm. What kind of BS would sell? Canadian Women Don't Get Bored? Canadian Women Don't Wear Uggs? #mireilleguiliano
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And I don't think the "But we're French!" excuse flies anymore. It's not like France is hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world or doesn't have its own racial problems. I'm sorry to say that from my perspective, Europeans seem to be behind Americans in terms of racial sensitivity. I still clearly remember the slanty eyes pictures of the Spanish Olympic basketball team and the repeated, lame Berlusconi jokes about the Obamas being "tanned." Both of those were excused as instances of cultural ignorance, usually accompanied by a "hey, it was a joke you PC Americans. Lighten up!"
Ugh.
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