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The reporter asked a snarky question and received a snarky reply. Stop clutching your pearls.
Of course, I'm extremely biased. I adore Ms. Warren.
He called her ugly.
They both lose.
It really shows how shallow, and sexist the conservatives are when it comes to women.
"Forbes magazine named Scott Brown Wall Streetâs favorite senator. I was thinking, 'Thatâs probably not an award that Iâm going to get.'"
"The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it. Thatâs why I want to run for the United States Senate."
Mr. Brown, in contrast, is a pig.
She needs to keep taking more jabs like that, and she'll drag the GOP ugly out into the light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_W…
Warren is part of the 1%.
Brown drives a pickup truck.
Why aren't you occupying her?
Woman posing for nude pictures for money = slut.
Man who refuses to pose nude for money = well, nothing really. Not commentworthy.
Woman who refuses to pose nude for money = uptight moralistic bluestocking. (Who needs sex and will probably never get it because she's ugly)
What Brown said was a personal "you're ugly" jab. There's also the very annoying implication that only young, pretty people should ever be seen nude or be secure and comfortable with their bodies, which is ridiculous.
So brown wins the jerk contest.
Both comments were pretty funny though.
By the time the next generation of political candidates run for office, scandalous photos will be ubiquitous. Remember when even the speculation of former drug use was political death? Our last three Presidents have admitted to using marijuana, and our last two have admitted to having done harder drugs. The same will be true of nudie pics in the future.
The question asked made mention of Brown in Cosmo. The questioner led all the candidates at the debate into it.
She probably should have just said calmly that she borrowed money to pay for college and spent her answer talking about the problems with current student loan programs. But a debate is a place where you're supposed to get feisty, and she's not one to avoid a fight.
By media rules, they both win -- they have us talking about them.
Scott Brown's comment reinforces a prejudice that affects 51% of the population.
Elizabeth Warren's comment reinforces a prejudice that affects a self-selecting fraction of the population.
I agree she's kinda a jerk for saying what she said, but Brown is much worse.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/17/did-el…
Which means that Brown has stooped to the level of the type of asshole who denigrates the appearance of even stunning women to put beautiful women in their place *and* to make it clear to more average women that they will never, ever be good enough.
But the real question is, where can we find pics of Scott Brown nude? For research purposes, of course.
Scott Brown: Douchesnozzle policies.
How is this even a question?
There are not enough cocks in this world to fuck the sense back into you.
Her reply was tasteful, as they were DIRECTLY discussing stripping with her.
It does not sound like she brought up Brown, the question was asked by another. It was a jokey aside, not an insult or judgment.
Brown was the bigger asshole here, he could have made any other sort of comment other than calling her ugly.
Oh and @44, you win the thread.
Warren's is kinda doubly bad, since it not only shames sex workers but ignores the fact that many sex workers don't make a free choice to do sex work but are instead coerced by economic necessity (and many do make a relatively-free choice), essentially shaming people who might be victims of sexual violence at the hands of our economic system (coerced sexual activity is sexual violence, after all, even if it's not any specific individual doing the coercion and even if the sex work in question is relatively tame).
"Brown paid for law school, in part, by posing nude for Cosmopolitan magazine, the candidates were told. How did they?
âI kept my clothes on,â Warren said, again to laughter, before outlining her true blend of loans and work-study."
Perhaps she could have kept the aside to herself and the moderator should have avoided looking for that sort of "humor", but it was not a reply at the expense of sex-workers or denigrating them.
The telling exchange was that Brown is Wall Street's favorite senator, while Warren isn't likely to have that "pleasure". Does stripping really have any place as a qualification for being a US senator? Hell, the Teabaggers are afraid of her!
Peace.
Brown's comment pissed me off way more, though. It's too personal, and awfully misogynistic to boot.
Both rate low on the scale o' offense, but I think there's more hypocrisy in a liberal being snotty about sex work than a conservative being snotty about ugly people.
Right, which is why people getting up in arms about "disrespect to sex work" are way off the mark.
And those who've pointed out that a woman who did strip to finance her education would not be in office anywhere in this country are absolutely right. We only elect Madonnas in this country.
Brown's remark shows a very typical Republican value - women's only worth is in their perceived attractiveness to men.
Q. Scott Brown posed for Cosmo to pay for law school: how did you pay for school
A. I kept my clothes on...Actually I took out loans and worked a part time job
These are paraphrases but they are pretty accurate. I would love for someone to explain to me how she is attacking sex workers here? Is she shaming him? Did she say, "I kept my clothes on unlike that slut Scott Brown"? Nope. She made a joke; one that I read as being a little self-deprecating.
For the most part, people who would vote for Elizabeth Warren would not consider voting for Scott Brown and would laugh when Jon Stewart makes fun of him for the nude modeling.
People who would vote for Scott Brown, for the most part, laugh at his mean comments about Elizabeth Warren.
Neither candidate's supporters would vote for the other, and I would hope "undecided" voters are smart enough to be swayed by more important issues than jabs about nude modeling.
Meanwhile, I live in Oregon, so while I have a definite opinion about which candidate I'd rather see in office based solely on wanting my party to control the Senate, what they say about each other doesn't matter in the slightest to me.