Did you know that this blogger finds older women who don’t have plastic surgery, get Botoxed or otherwise try to hold back the inevitable consequences of physical aging more attractive than those who look like they walked off the set of Extreme Makeover?
No, you probably didn’t. But then that shouldn’t matter.
Mind you, I believe that a woman can do or not do whatever she damned well pleases with her appearance, and an older woman certainly has more than earned that right. Which brings me to the brouhaha surrounding this photo of Hillary Clinton. In a moment.
You probably also didn’t know that Mrs. Clinton is not my type. Not that that should matter either.
I have been around Mrs. Clinton a few times, including up close twice. She not only isn’t a classic beauty, which is okay and wouldn’t keep me from voting for her, but she doesn’t project an inner beauty, which also wouldn’t keep me from voting for her but is a disqualifier in my own beauty book.
I’ve been smitten by women who wouldn’t be confused with a 60-something Julie Christie but radiate a beauty from within that is quite transfixing. (Christie does both, at least on the screen.) Mrs. Clinton leaves me cold, while the photo’s initial publication at the Drudge Report website with malicious intent leaves me disgusted that the old double standard is alive and thriving in Campaign ’08.
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