What I learned from the Daily Mail today: Bobby Kennedy Jr. was a male desnuda.

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His problem is, he's male. Ergo, bad Bobby!

And if he weren't a Kennedy, his perfectly normal, post-war life would hardly have been worth a chuckle.

THIS is why the Daily Mail is a tabloid I hate to love.

[smirkymonkey]

1. Not a very flattering article, even if half of it was true.

I don't think that was the point. I think the point was that he treated people like dirt. Just because the Kennedys were Democrats, does not mean they were without fault. I thought the article was a total DM slam piece, but some of it is true and the way he treated his last wife was despicable. The poor woman killed herself, partly because of her mental illness, but partly because he treated her horribly. Really sad story. I feel very sad for their children and her family.

[closeupready]

10. It was simply another DM slam piece against liberals.

And American Democrats. Yet, don't look to the DM for the very tawdry history of their own Royal Family, as anything and everything establishment is squeaky clean, and everything new and different is sordid and dirty.

My point was, so he walked around his house in the nude. And....? The point is what, that he has a penis? That he's more comfortable without clothing than with? What is the scandal the DM is pushing? Not understand that point of that. Here on DU, we are all basically on board that desnudas and "artists" walking around buck naked in the most public of public places, Times Square (and likely "anywhere they feel like&quot , is perfectly acceptable, yet Bobby Kennedy Jr. walking around naked in his own home is ... what, scandalous? lol

[TeeYiYi]

2. So, he was a desnudo...

Does that mean he was a nudist? He liked to be naked?...in his own house?...in public?...he was a stripper?...an exhibitionist?...erm what?...

TYY

[smirkymonkey]

3. Yeah, what the hell is a desnudo anyway?

I have no problem with anyone going around in the raw every now and then, but I don't think that was the point of this article.

The point was that the Kennedys destroyed a lot of peoples lives, very carelessly. Especially the men. Sorry, I am a hardcore Democrat, but the Kennedy men are pretty much well documented pigs.

[TeeYiYi]

4. The first time I heard the word, desnuda...

...was in connection to the Times Square stripper, or whatever she was, that got attacked by some crazy woman calling her, "Nasty."

I think that the actual translation of desnuda or desnudo is 'bare' or 'nude'...

TYY

[smirkymonkey]

5. Yeah, I don't really have a problem with that.

That was hardly the gist of the article. I think the OP has a little reading comprehension problem if that is all he/she got out of it.

[jmowreader]

8. Desnudos and desnudas are Times Square street performers

They go in body paint from the waist up and pose with tourists for money. It seems like a HIGHLY seasonal occupation, but a lot of jobs in the tourist trade are.

[TeeYiYi]

9. Aah...thank you!

Yeah, I saw the story about the Times Square desnuda but I wasn't completely sure what she had done to deserve the conservative vitriol. I wasn't sure if she'd wandered out of a strip club, or what... Now that I understand, it sounds like perfectly acceptable and interesting street performance art.

I'm still not sure what the OP was about. I wonder if the Daily Mail was accusing Bobby Kennedy Jr. of being a nudist, an exhibitionist, a hooker, a street performer...or what? Oh well... I guess I'll just have to google the story if I'm that curious. (I'm not...that...curious.)

TYY

[ananda]

6. See Goya

Maja Desnuda

[TeeYiYi]

7. So, Bobby Kennedy Jr...

...liked to pose nude for paintings? What was the point of the OP? (I didn't read the article since there wasn't a link.)

TYY