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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    12:07 PM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    Levi in NYC? Did anyone else think of Midnight Cowboy?

    (Land of the) Midnight (Sun) Cowboy? #levijohnstontheinsider
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    12:01 PM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    The more this shit-for-brains babbles, the more I like Sarah Palin. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of bananaballs bananaballs
    11:44 AM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    I like the kid. He's not really meant to be taken seriously, he doesn't take himself seriously, and his mere existence is a thorn in the Palins' side. I think it's karmic payback that he's doing all this Playgirl stuff and I find it hilarious. His partnership with Kathy Griffin sealed it for me (and caused me to find her funny for the first time). He KNOWS his fame is a joke, and he's in on it.

    So, ok, he said something dumb about his "type." I can't imagine finding him a threat, it's just not possible. The camp factor here is off the charts.

    I may just buy my first ever issue of Playgirl. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    11:48 AM

    @bananaballs: Same here, much like Kim Zolciak he knows his fame is a joke and one that he's in on. In a world where Health Care Reform only passes by stripping womens reproductive rights, we all need people like him to laugh at otherwise WE GO INSANE! #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    11:28 AM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    I think this may be code for "pretty, funny, and dumb." #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of Triana Orpheus Triana Orpheus
    11:30 AM

    @TheFormerJuneBronson: So, mirror image of himself, then? #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    11:38 AM

    @Triana Orpheus: Freud said so! #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    11:27 AM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    Is this one of those "Pick Two" situations?

    Good luck with your search buddy. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    11:17 AM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    Mindless drones only, female humans need not apply. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of Kivrin Kivrin
    11:14 AM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    Sarah Palin may be Levi's only experience with an "opinionated" woman. If that's the case, I can't blame him for thinking he wants the opposite. He's just a teenager. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    11:44 AM

    @Kivrin: I don't know, I think that's selling him a little short. He may be a teenager, but he doesn't live in a bubble controlled by Sarah Palin. He might mean he wants someone unlike her, but then he should be more clear than he is.

    He's old enough to know how to verbalize clearly and not rely on sweeping statements. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of wtfox?! wtfox?!
    11:10 AM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    You know, I can't imagine many smart, funny, not opinionated women being attracted to Levi Johnston. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of DrWorm DrWorm
    11:14 AM

    @wtfox?!: I can't really imagine a smart, funny woman who isn't opinionated
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    Image of Rare Affinity Rare Affinity
    11:18 AM

    @DrWorm: Truly an oxymoron. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of frugal frugal
    11:10 AM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    If this Levi wasn't broke we'd never see his corps of engineers. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11:10 AM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    Well, I want a Levi that doesn't talk, but takes off his pants. You know what they say, want in one hand and shit in the other. Or something. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of Penny Penny
    11:03 AM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    Newsflash dipshit. Women who are smart are generally opinionated. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    11:07 AM

    @Penny: I was just going to mention that. Being opinionated goes with the territory, doesn't it? #levijohnstontheinsider
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    11:10 AM

    @Penny: Maybe he means "smart because she keeps her damn opinions to herself"? #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    11:02 AM

    In reply to Levi Johnston Wants A Woman Who's "Smart, Funny, Not Opinionated"
    Wow, so he wants a woman who's the polar opposite of everything he is. What a winnar. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    11:13 AM

    @redqueenmeg: Actually it just seems like he wants a woman who's the polar opposite of Sarah Palin. Smart, funny, not opinionated...definitely not the Sarah I know. #levijohnstontheinsider
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    11/09/09

    In reply to Democrat Or Republican, Political Women Have a Tough Road To Walk
    Even though Meghan isn't the "sharpest knife in the drawer," I'd still vote for her over Palin, were they the only alternatives. Now, she's abstaining from politics, I don't lean the same way on most issues and hopefully, I would never be subject to such a scenario - but I think she has a refreshingly open mind for someone who has been so immersed in circle of Republican "royalty." She's likely not the heir to the prowess of William Buckley, but she's no Ann Coulter, either.

    In many ways, I hope the Republicans (Dems, too) can be less of a platform-party and more of a party of issues; If 3rd parties can never fully realize strength in America, the next best thing, to me, would be a variety of individuals in each party that held integrity, compassion, justice, intelligence, and objectivity in high esteem.

    I know... Keep dreaming. #womeninpolitics
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    11/09/09

    @Jack_Burton: Our system is necessarily a race to the middle, especially with the oligarchical and rurally dominant senate and the immense power o the executive. I'm hot and cold on the magnitude of the power of the exec branch, but a unicameral legislature would be much more populist and active. #womeninpolitics
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    Image of yvanehtnioj yvanehtnioj
    11/09/09

    In reply to Democrat Or Republican, Political Women Have a Tough Road To Walk
    I have the hardest time feeling anything positive about Meghan McCain. Even when she says things halfway intelligent like this, my instant response is, "And it took you how many years to figure this out?"

    A hyperrich white young attractive blonde woman who got an instant platform in the national media because her father is a conservative Republican Senator realizes that some women have it hard. News at 11! #womeninpolitics
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    Image of amandavmead amandavmead
    11/09/09

    @yvanehtnioj: i think your assessment of meghan mccain is a tad judgmental. she may have gotten a pulpit through no work of her own, other than campaigning relentlessly for her father, but she is an intelligent and compassionate moderate republican. she has been attacked to no end by conservatives for her unwavering support of gay marriage and the gay community. though i may disagree with her politics for the most part, i respect that she has her own mind and her own voice, despite all of the forces trying to put her in a different box - labeled CONSERVATIVE.
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    Image of emerson.ellie emerson.ellie
    11/09/09

    @yvanehtnioj: I don't know your age, but speaking from the standpoint of a 20 year old girl, it is a bit of a realization that women have to work harder than men to get half as far. We are taught in school that women have achieved equality, and it really isn't until our first foray into the "real world" that we get slapped with the reality that women have not come as far as your high school history teacher would have you believe, particularly if you come from an upper middle class background. Most of my girlfriends in college still haven't realized how much harder the workforce will be for them. I only realized it in its entirety when I took a year off between high school and college to move to New York City to work (for Hillary Clinton's campaign, no less).
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    Image of Valkyrie607 Valkyrie607
    11/09/09

    @emerson.ellie: I love your comment, and actually, even though I'm about 10 years older than you, I had a similar awakening upon entering the workforce. I had absorbed similar messages from school and parents about equality being a done deal.

    Also, I know you may not feel like one, but please: you're 20 years old. You're a woman. Not a girl. Referring to yourself as a girl is probably unconscious, but think about how that impacts how people perceive you, and other 20-year-old women. #womeninpolitics
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    Image of yvanehtnioj yvanehtnioj
    11/09/09

    @emerson.ellie: But that's exactly my point. I think it's normal for people to buy into the whole "This is America, you can do whatever!" mentality until they get into the real world (although it's also very common for people that are politically aware / sensitive to see through that earlier), but the fact that she's 25 and just now getting a glimpse (emphasis on glimpse) of the real world is an example of her privilege. Most people are done with college by 21, and a huge percentage start work before that. She still doesn't have to "work" (you know, with interviews and bosses and such); her career is to be a blogger without having done any previous writing work or time in the trenches learning the craft because of who her dad is, while many talented and experienced writers are out of work due to the economy and death of print media and whatnot. I really just can't dredge up any sympathy.

    @amandavmead: Nothing you just said is inconsistent with anything I said. So, um, okay? Yes I do judge her. #womeninpolitics
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    Image of bumbleleaf bumbleleaf
    11/09/09

    @yvanehtnioj: I agree with emerson.ellie -- in school, many people get a sense that all these "struggles" and such are in the past, that feminism isn't in the news so much, so it must be over. I've been a feminist for a long time, and I still had a bit of a rude awakening since leaving college. (Maybe I thought it "wouldn't happen to me"?)

    While MM definitely speaks from a place of (largely unexamined) privilege, you can see she's trying to leave her shelter and slowly get a grip on the world (the world world, not the world invented by the likes of Michelle Bachmann, R-Crazytown) -- even if she's not straying too far from the tent.

    I think she's a ninny, but I have to admit I sort of stand behind her stated mission to reform (or at least youngify) the GOP from within. Not that I think it will work. But it's like when my parents wouldn't pull my brother out of Boy Scouts over the gay scoutmaster case, because they reasoned that if all the liberals left the BSA in protest, the organization would have no one left interested in changing its policies. #womeninpolitics
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    Image of yvanehtnioj yvanehtnioj
    11/09/09

    @bumbleleaf: But this is exactly my point: She's having these realizations like 5 years behind her peers because she's so. danged. privileged (which is annoying). And sure it's a somewhat natural progression to come to these realizations, but watching her interact with reality for apparently the first time ever just drives home the point that she has no business having this national platform. It's just another reminder that she hasn't earned our attention, she's inherited it.

    Look, I don't hate the woman, she's not the antichrist, she's not the worst Republican of the bunch, and I hope to heaven that she can convince some of those nutjobs of basic things like "gay people deserve human rights". But I don't like her, and I find that every time she makes the news she speaks from a position of such oblivious, blind privilege that it sets my teeth on edge. #womeninpolitics
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    11/09/09

    @yvanehtnioj: well, yeah. hmm. You're right. #womeninpolitics
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    Image of emerson.ellie emerson.ellie
    11/09/09

    @yvanehtnioj: I wouldn't say that I exactly bought into a "you can do whatever you want in America" mentality," and I resent your implying that I was not politically aware or sensitive (um, hello...I worked for Hillary Clinton beginning right after my 18th birthday). I'm simply saying this girl should be villanized for coming from a position of privilege. She certainly didn't choose it, and she seems to be trying to pop that "bubble" that you are referring to. Perhaps she is behind (although I think you are overestimating a significant portion of the population), but she's getting there. Should we begrudge her for trying?
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    Image of Valkyrie607 Valkyrie607
    12:36 AM

    @yvanehtnioj: Yes, you judge her--accurately. #womeninpolitics
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    01:27 AM

    @emerson.ellie: I think resentment might be a bit of an overreaction, given that I was working from your own description that it was a surprise to discover that life was not as your high school history teacher described. But even still, I'm saying it's a common problem.

    More importantly, there's nothing at all about Meghan McCain that says she's trying to pop the "bubble" of her privilege. Where did you get that idea? The way she fell ass-backward into her sinecure? Her self-appointed position as Important Republican Voice? (As much as the Rs do need better voices and serious reform, it takes a hell of a lot of chutzpah to think of yourself as the go-to person to reform one of America's two major political parties before you've ever even held down a job.) Her privilege is entirely unexamined. Realizing that there is such a thing as sexism is not the same as examining your own privilege. And yes, if you are among the most privileged people in the world and don't ever take the time to reflect on that reality or acknowledge its benefits, I will be tempted to villify you. That's the kind of attitude that allows blatant disregard for the less fortunate, and "she didn't ask to be a billionairess" doesn't negate the need for self-awareness with me.

    And lastly, I was talking about entry into the real world when I said she's at least 5 years behind her cohort. We both know that there're many people who never think about sexism (though these people are very rarely women), so I surely didn't mean to imply that everyone is an informed feminist by 25. But when you factor in people that start working straight out of high school and people that work their way through community college and/or college, yes. She's very far behind her peers in re: dealing with the real world. #womeninpolitics
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    11/09/09

    In reply to New Yorker: Women's Representation Is Not Enough
    You could have, in a sense, feminism without feminists. You could have, for example, Leslie Sanchez or Sarah Palin.

    Zing! #ariellevy
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