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Bush's speaking style certainly drips with bored condescension, not specifically to women, but he does have that tone....the Great Father Protector trying to explain things to his slow-witted child, oh can't you just trust that I know best, you couldn't possibly understand. Run along and play, dearies....

I think the examining the gender subtext of our popular and political culture is key to understanding our current situation.

Gender subtext informs everything we think, say and do, and yet never, ever, speak about out loud.

Kudos to Susan Faludi for illuminating something so essential to understanding the world.

i told a bush supporter friend of mine, that she had to stop picking her political leaders like she used to choose her ex-boyfriends, for all the wrong reasons.
after that, we didn't have any more disagreements about President Problem Child, rather, we had more reasonable discussions regarding the constitutional powers of the presidency during wartime.
i know, i was cruel, but i just had to finally get through to her.

This is fascinating.....just reserved a copy of the book at my library, can't wait to read it.

Don't know about anyone else but I have been hearing media referring to "President Butch" a lot recently. A collective freudian slip.

Also surely everyone remembers the President flying onto the aircraft carrier wearing a cod piece and proclaiming Mission Acccomplished, talk about rescue fantasies! which really ties into the previous big attack on American soil at Pearl harbor, all of which is old news on the analysis front. Which is to say, not how unexpected Susan Faludi's theory is, but props to her all the same.

following 9/11 poeple seemed inclined to forget not only attacks on home soil from early colonial days, but also about the burning of washington during the war 1812 and even the attack on perl harbor.