How to make yourself look like a very, very, very, very small human being *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Jun 19 2009 at 2:52 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Only someone with a self-image somewhere between a slug and bollweevil would feel compelled to do with Babs Boxer did. Or, perhaps, someone very, very evil. (Jill Biden should take note too):
UPDATE: At Blackfive, you can learn just how petty and ignorant Boxer was.
This is all quibbling, of course. To be entirely accurate, he would have addressed her as “Bee-ach.”
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It is painfully obvious to anybody who doesn’t hate the military that the general was being polite to Boxer in the manner called for by military manners: A woman is addressed as “Ma’am” and a man as “Sir.”
Only in the Bizarro world occupied by Barbara Boxer could being called “Ma’am” be seen as a slur or a cut down. The woman’s hatred for the military (second only to her hatred for the unborn) demanded that she find some way to put this man in his place, if not humilate him.
There will be the usual Berkeley-type kneejerks who will chortle and applaud at what she did, but a vast majority of people who see the clip are going to cringe at the sheer self-centerdness and rudeness of Boxer’s self-regarding little fit.
Hmmm. Charles, I’ve known women who considered “Ma’am” as a term reserved for an older woman. I could see why Boxer might object to that.
Not that I disagree with you really…but she _is_ reaching an age where she might be sensitive about that sort of thing. In addition to the military thing…
Per wikipedia…
Senator Boxer is physically diminutive, standing at 4’11″.
Looks like she is short in stature and even shorter on style and grace.
Cheer up Charles, since we shrink with age she be asking to be called senator while sitting in a booster seat in no time.
Hah. What a mental picture…!
I’m pretty sure Boxer worked real hard to get her husband those defense contracts as well.
Boxer, your hard work is like a plague of flies. Something to be taken care of with a blow torch, poison, and a purge.
My wife, a former employee of the Social Security Administration, hosted some event where Boxer was was the guest of honor and my wife was the official greeter.
The encounter went off spectacularly well: My wife stands barely 5 feet tall, has dark hair, is petite, and is a Jew from the East Coast. In the minute they had to exchange pleasantries, there was a mutual gasp of recognition on so many levels. I think it was like the moment in “West Side Story” where Tony and Maria first meet and the rest of the world just fades into the background.
The difference, of course, is that my wife, despite her liberalism, has a brain, does not adore abortion, and does not believe in lording it over people.
Y, I don’t believe it was Boxer’s husband who got those defense contracts, as her husband is an attorney who specializes in workman’s comp cases.
Either Senator Feinstein’s husband, or Speaker Pelosi’s husband.
Generally speaking, traditionalist Jews firmly oppose abortion, with few health-related exceptions, and liberal Jews tend to allow greater latitude for abortion.
I think that should confuse your wife, Charles. (smile here)
I really enjoyed the Tony & Maria explanation, but at least here on the East Coast, we just call it Jewish Geography. Any crowded room, anywhere, anytime and this 6th sense just kicks in most of the time. Since Boxer is from Brooklyn (gee, just realized that she brought that Brooklyn style to the West Coast) well, at least she didn’t say…Hey! I got your ma’me and grab her crotch.
How’s that for a mental picture, suek (grinning and laughing very hard here).
Speaking as a short person with an advanced degree, I just want to say that we’re not all so petty. I will add that, despite the fact that I’m 5′ nothing, most people think I’m taller. I carry myself with confidence, and don’t need honorifics to prove anything.
I carry myself with confidence, and don’t need honorifics to prove anything.
Guess that’s why you don’t get all bent out of shape about being called “Book” instead of “Bookworm.” or “Ms. Bookworm.” Or “Attorney Bookwork.” or “Counselor Bookworm.”
When you talk to a Royal, you address her as ma’am. I am southern, and we call all women ma’am. I was shocked when I realized that some women don’t like it. I figure if it’s good enough for Her Majesty, it’s good enough for me.
As for Boxer – yeah, it’s soooooo hard for a democrat to get elected in California.