Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance.

• spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We predictably comment on powerful men’s appearances as well.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It happens, but not predictably. It happens to every powerful woman every time. Which have you heard more about: Hillary’s cankles or whatever the fuck that is that hangs off the bottom of Mitch McConnel’s chin? I rest my case.

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    • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Mitch McConnel’s throat sack inflates when threatened

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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Congrats, one instance found. My question was which do you hear “more” about.

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    • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think I agree, recently at least. I can instantly think of several male examples (Trump’s orange, Vance looks like a thumb, how can Musk be SO white), but relatively few female examples (Hillary’s powersuit maybe?). Perhaps just where we put our attention, or how polarised everyone is that this type of comment will always come up, but I don’t think it’s as gendered of an issue as it was. At least not as related to politics.

      On a related note, I also hadn’t come across Hillary’s cankles, but had enjoyed much laughter at McConnell’s skin sack lol

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• littlewonder@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nah, ignoring the fact that anyone doing what she’s doing is literally evil, I don’t comment on the way someone’s body exists in this world. Now, if someone goes out of their way to style their appearance, I use a different ruleset.

  If someone has control over something in their appearance (e.g. color combinations, outfit style, cool earrings), then it’s a matter of taste and I love to hand out compliments in person. And I don’t feel bad about similarly criticizing rich, war profiteers online.

  That brow shape is not a natural brow. In fact, she appears to be trying very hard not to have a natural brow and has, in fact, decided to go so anti-unibrow that it makes me wonder if a unibrow once personally insulted her.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That thread ender, holy. Well said.

    I’m thinking she could have made mistakes on her brows early in her life. That could also be the case.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Someone’s choices about how they handle or present their body are just as much a part of their appearance as the way their body was made at birth, so your elaborate excuses fail to get you off the sexism hook, from which you hung yourself quite clearly earlier.

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    • littlewonder@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Elaborate excuses? It’s just me explaining my thought process.

      Do you go this hard against people making fun of the fit of Trump’s suits?

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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No, because that is not part of a systematic program to diminish men and undermine them from occupying positions of power. When women are equally represented in power and comments about women’s appearance are equally random and not 100% fucking predictable then I’ll handle all such comments the same, and not before.

        You’re really far behind here if you don’t understand this, but I don’t expect a lot from someone who would make an openly sexist remark in public, I guess.

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• stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The predictability of someone trying to shoehorn an agenda unnecessarily.

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