Anyone else tired of all the "measuring the drapes" crap?

[VelmaD]

I find it very thinly veiled sexism. I'm just not remembering any other change in power where this kind of crap about decorating was said about men.

[bloom]

1. Is it big in the Corporate media?

I don't watch it much - so I don't know. I have noticed it here a couple times - and I usually just think, What the hell are they talking about?

[BlueIris]

2. Welp, I think it was Bush himself who originally said that Dems

were so excited about their presumptive wins in Congress that they were 'measuring drapes' in preparation for their imminent seizure of power. Which I thought was Bush's way of comparing the Democrats to women collectively (and we all know that the only thing female congressfolk do when they get elected and re-elected is measure drapes for their offices!). Yes, I find the references to his comment sexist.

[ThomCat]

3. It is sexist.

I've heard that comment defended repeatedly as "he was just saying they're jumping the gun and counting their chickens before they've hatched." But if that was really all he meant he could have used those or other analogies.

He, or his writers, chose the interior decorating analogy very deliberately to point all of us as frivolous women and gay men.