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Posted by Melissa McEwan at Thursday, May 01, 2014  
[Content Note: Misogyny; misogynistic tropes.]

I have read not a single article about actor George Clooney's engagement to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, because I don't care.

But these are the things I know, just from seeing headlines of articles about Clooney's and Alamuddin's engagement in my regular news reading:

1. Alamuddin is smart and educated, unlike those other bimbos Clooney's dated.

2. Alamuddin has her own career, unlike those other gold-diggers Clooney's dated.

3. Alamuddin managed to "lock him down" by playing hard to get, unlike those other sluts Clooney's dated.

4. Alamuddin, we should not be surprised to find, is the woman to finally bring an end to Clooney's long-term bachelorhood and take him "off the market," because she is awesome, unlike those other duds Clooney's dated, and Clooney obviously cannot settle for anything less than the most amazing woman on the planet because he is George fucking Clooney.

It's kind of amazing how being an attractive person in the entertainment industry is what makes Clooney the most eligible bachelor in the multiverse, and simultaneously made all of the women he dated previously, most or all of whom were attractive people in the entertainment industry, unsuitable to deserve being his wife.

It's kind of amazing that virtually everyone feels free to presume that all of the women he's previously dated wanted to be his wife.

It's kind of amazing how virtually everyone is apparently incapable of observing that Amal Alamuddin is an accomplished, smart, and interesting woman without demeaning other women, whose only connection to any of this is that they dated the man to whom she's now engaged, once upon a time.
Labels: Today in Misogyny

  

Nasty funny little piece of writing making fun of the media headlines too  

Welcome g-fan to the forum  

Spot on. This media need to force women into competition with each other over a man drives me bonkers!

My first thought is that it could have been written by camp Alamuddin. Didn't her mother used to write for Daily Mail? I know I read "her mother" and Daily Mail" in the same sentence in another thread

playfuldeb wrote:My first thought is that it could have been written by camp Alamuddin. Didn't her mother used to write for Daily Mail? I know I read "her mother" and Daily Mail" in the same sentence in another thread

Yeah, I think the sentence goes something like, "Her mother lives in England, so probably reads the Daily Mail."

How much further does Amal's conspiracy of power extend, do you think? Are we talking Free Masons, Illuminati, or what?

  

Welcome g-fan - Nice find. She's got the media pegged. I wonder what they'll find about Amal to knock her off the pedestal they've put her on? It never fails. Build 'em up with one hand and knock 'em down with the other.

Missa - ssshh - don't mention the Illuminati   

I mentioned them once, but I think I got away with it!

Seriously, this writer hits the nail on the head. So many of the other articles are as if George is doing Amal a favour by bestowing the privilege of marrying him on her. It's all so 'Good girl, well done. All those years of studying and hard work have paid off now: you've landed the man'.

Slightly different angle, but today I heard of one former classmate who had phoned her mother and apologised for being a disappointment to her!

Hilarious

Katie - This superwoman image in the US press is the result of the women's movement pushing their agenda. It is now politically incorrect to say a woman lucked out landing the world's most eligible bachelor. Amal is now the shining example of the successful career woman who got him because she's smarter than a mere man. It's nauseating!

I am happy someone finally has said something about the way all George's exs are stupid, money hunger and trash. This is typical of our new mindset in the US.

nice, you wrote my thoughts. I am amazed by the fact that because Amal and a lawyer graduated at Oxford, all here are beautiful, intelligent, sweet, etc, etc.. I have many doubts about his morality from everything that I'm 'reading about her "great defenses" and then it makes me angry to read that she is the woman to his level speaking ill of the former, and this for two reasons: 1 George It is a man who has lived his life like a fool for love "only" 52 years? 2 I know a lot of lawyers and to do good work that is necessary to have a healthy dose of cynicism, to win a case and not all are willing to stop at nothing and then often become so well in their lives.

Ok, we seem to be going in three different directions here. My thoughts on various points raised:

LizzyNY wrote:Katie - This superwoman image in the US press is the result of the women's movement pushing their agenda. It is now politically incorrect to say a woman lucked out landing the world's most eligible bachelor. Amal is now the shining example of the successful career woman who got him because she's smarter than a mere man. It's nauseating!

Not sure I'm following you here. I see a lot of reports are going with the whole "lucky girl, despite the fact she's educated she still managed to catch a man" angle which I find nauseating.

Mazy wrote:I am happy someone finally has said something about the way all George's exs are stupid, money hunger and trash. This is typical of our new mindset in the US.

Sad but true. Although already there are people wanting to say the same about Amal, that she's only after his money. I think it's just a trope that resonates well nowadays because of the casual misogyny in the media.

lelacorb wrote: I am amazed by the fact that because Amal and a lawyer graduated at Oxford, all here are beautiful, intelligent, sweet, etc, etc..

I totally get your point that just because she's well educated and has a great job in law, that doesn't make her an ethical or nice person. But I don't think anyone is saying that.

The only articles that I read saying that she's really nice are quoting people who actually know her. As for ethics, as a human rights lawyer, that kind of goes with the territory if you see what I mean although sure, it's not a given.

Katiedot wrote:Ok, we seem to be going in three different directions here.  My thoughts on various points raised:

LizzyNY wrote:Katie - This superwoman image in the US press is the result of the women's movement pushing their agenda. It is now politically incorrect to say a woman lucked out landing the world's most eligible bachelor. Amal is now the shining example of the successful career woman who got him because she's smarter than a mere man. It's nauseating!

 Not sure I'm following you here.  I see a lot of reports are going with the whole "lucky girl, despite the fact she's educated she still managed to catch a man" angle which I find nauseating.

I've found the overall tenor of the coverage nauseating as well, and I think Ronan Farrow captured succinctly in his tweet that was posted in the engagement thread (along the lines of "thanks to the media for reminding me that Amal Alamuddin is not a rising legal star but a saucy minx who caught a man").

@Katie & Missa - Maybe we're looking at different sources. Honestly, I think they're both lucky - He, to have found someone he wants to marry and she, because he picked her.I hope it's real and they'll be happy together.

Thanks to the feminist movement, which in many ways I support, American culture has created an image of men as bumbling, horny adolescents. We've gone from "Father Knows Best" to "What Happens In Vegas" and it's having an effect on our society. IMO There needs to be a happy medium of respect for both sexes and their accomplishments.

PS - George and Amal are both talented and successful people in their respective fields. To my mind, that hers is more academically based in no way takes away from what he has accomplished in his career. They have equal value and deserve equal respect.

LizzyNY wrote:@Katie & Missa - Maybe we're looking at different sources. Honestly, I think they're both lucky - He, to have found someone he wants to marry and she, because he picked her.I hope it's real and they'll be happy together.

Thanks to the feminist movement, which in many ways I support, American culture has created an image of men as bumbling, horny adolescents. We've gone from "Father Knows Best" to "What Happens In Vegas" and it's having an effect on our society. IMO There needs to be a happy medium of respect for both sexes and their accomplishments.

@Lizzy, that's an interesting perspective. I don't want to speak for Katie, but here's how I would rephrase that: I think they're both lucky, to have found someone they each want to marry." There's something about the "he picked her" that to me connotes that all she was waiting for was her prince to arrive on a white horse, and that rubs me the wrong way. It's a small difference in phrasing, but I think an important one.

I'm interested in your perspective on the feminist movement as well, particularly as it pertains to the image of men. I would argue that the anti-feminist side paints men as "bumbling, horny adolescents" that can't control themselves. For example, those are the people whose first question about a rape victim is "Well, what was she wearing?", as though any man faced with a woman in a short skirt would too overcome by hormones to behave appropriately and should be excused.