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 Salon editors: You are very, very stupid for printing this:
Free at last. I never thought that I — a black girl who came of age in the utterly anticlimactic aftermath of the civil rights movement — would say the phrase with any real sincerity in my lifetime. But ever since Nov. 4, I’ve been shouting it from every rooftop. I’m not excited for the most obvious reason. Yes, Obama’s win was an extraordinary breakthrough and a huge relief, but I don’t subscribe to the notion that his capturing the White House represents the end of American racial history. Far from it. There is a certain freedom in the moment — as in, we are all now free from wondering when or if we’ll ever get a black president. Congratulations to all of us for being around to settle the question.
But what really thrills me, what really feels liberating in a very personal way, is the official new prominence of Michelle Obama. Barack’s better half not only has stature but is statuesque. She has corruscating intelligence, beauty, style and — drumroll, please — a butt. (Yes, you read that right: I’m going to talk about the first lady’s butt.)
The headline is: “First lady got back.” And though there’s some intellectual meditation on the meaning of Michelle Obama’s butt, this is still an essay about Michelle Obama’s butt.
Can we expect some essay on Barack Obama’s phallus sometime soon? Cause heaven knows there’s plenty of intellectual meditating we can do about the significance of an African-American penis in American culture. Somehow, though, I think most editors would regard that particular essay as line not to be crossed.
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I smell a column!
I guess misogyny never gets old with these kids.
@Adorable Girlfriend No kidding. But there’s other weird forces involved. They might’ve done this to Hillary Clinton, but can you imagine an article about Laura Bush’s ass? Nancy Reagan’s?
@ Adorable Girlfriend: Right, because the enjoyment of viewing an attractive and intelligent woman’s posterior is an affront to all women everywhere and means that the viewer ‘hates’ women. Liking how an individual woman’s ass looks has nothing whatsoever to do with “misogyny”.
On the contrary, not looking at her sweet, luscious bottom would be hateful and misogynistic. Perhaps you should try to stop being so puritanical, anti-sex, and anti-fun.
Also, I hope you visit a strip club soon and afterward you get a hot fudge sundae from McDonald’s.