If you get your panties in a bunch because the governor questions your manhood for what he perceives as a failure to honestly face the voters, then you are girlie men. And if you have to proclaim how offended you are personally and through surrogates, you are girlie men.
And it's not homophobia to suggest that certain men are effiminate. You can be straight and effiminate. That's a girlie man.
Here's an excerpt that looks like some Tom Wolfe satire, but it isn't:
"It uses an image that is associated with gay men in an insulting way, and it was supposed to be an insult. That's very troubling that he would use such a homophobic way of trying to put down legislative leadership," said Kuehl, one of five members of the Legislature's five-member Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus.Oh, get a life. The Governator's response:
"It's a forceful way of making the point to regular Californians that legislators are wimps when they let special interests push them around," Stutzman said. "If they complain too much about this, I guess they're making the governor's point."And now the special interests (gay, lesbian and trans-gendered?) are using this to try to push people around. What a shock. More not-really-satire-but-ought-to-be:Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat, said that while he wasn't upset by the remark, his 13-year-old daughter was.Here's a good lesson for a 13 year old. Of course it was supposted to be derogative. Get a clue.
"She's a young girl who knows the governor and really likes him a lot and didn't find the term to be a positive term, and finds it to be derogatory," Nunez said. "It was no question a very, very insensitive comment to make. I personally am not intimidated or threatened by it, but I think it really is beneath Gov. Schwarzenegger."
