Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1640
[Images that illustrate the post are posted at the end]
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[Update: I have made corrections on the professional roles of Pam Bondi and Angela Corey]
Florida's Attorney General, Pam Bondi, looks like an early-thirty-something law clerk, but she's actually 46 years old. She has stated that, "We are doing everything in our power to ensure that justice is sought in this case," regarding the George Zimmerman case.
I wouldn't want to be in her line of fire, with her face in full-on war make-up which hardens into an uncompromising expression, and with red manicured nails jabbing into the air to make some kind of decisive point. Her get-up also includes power stilettos, those feminine daggers, a tight skirt that accentuates her glorious femaleness, but a sloppy red satin shirt to show that she's not seriously into beautifying herself. She is a public impersonation of the schizophrenic mental mode of modern females.
The mandatory blonde hair, flowing like Medusa's mane, is often the most prominent feature of modern women like Bondi, who fight for powers of position based on masculine prowess, yet display their presence through their feminized weapons. The blonde, loose hair is often a dye-job acting like a helmet covering darker roots of less imposing feminine presence.
News anchors and commentators have perfected the blonde helmet, combining it with their hard voices and steely eyes to give them a fascistic presence. Not a smile comes out of these prime-time Amazons. Ann Coulter is the Queen of the Blondes, whose hair flows back and forth as she pushes her decisive points at us. Her signature mini-dress is more a black armor than a feminine touch. And her golden locks seal her all female power.
If natural beauty isn't forthcoming, then red lipstick and red nails, bloody and threatening, becomes the signature look. Often, such pronounced make-up is the strategy of older women, like Angela Corey, the State Attorney in Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit Court who is also the special prosecutor in the Zimmerman case. These women may have lost some youthful exuberance over the years, or added on some sluggish pounds, but they will still fight with their gendered weaponry. Nancy Pelosi has perfected the red dress with red lipstick, jabbing her hardened, painted nails at us, while temporarily disarming us with a smile full of her ingenious femaleness.
Ann Coutler, Angela Corey and Pam Blandi unabashedly wear the cross above their plunging necklines. Women are perhaps more spiritual than men, in a holistic, generalized way, so these feminists women are not necessarily acting hypocritically. Who should be accountable, though, are the many men who let them proclaim their female-centered, often anti-male, ideas while while standing quietly beside them.
Elderly statesmen, youngish virile world leaders, live-in boyfriends, and faithful, eunuchized husbands pose next to these women. Taken aback by their femaleness, they often stand next to (and by) them, showing their natural, masculine, respectful deferment towards them, the same protective instinct that lets them open doors for women. Yet, this deferment, when stretched to its limit, becomes acquiescence, and ultimately capitulation.
"The indictment of Zimmerman for murder is perhaps as much a result of Female-Run America as it is of Black-Run America," writes Lawrence Auster at the View From the Right. He may be generous with his "perhaps."
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