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Boob Job [UPDATE]

Writing in the Village Voice, Roy Edroso is upset that Sarah Palin managed to turn the boob job rumor on her critics:

But wasn't the implant story an unwelcome distraction from it? No, because for the Palin machine, there are no distractions -- anything that happens, however negative it may seem to normal people, can be repurposed in support of her cause. This is, after all, the woman who claimed quitting political office was about "what is best for Alaska."

Whereas the White House pulling strings to try to keep Arlen Specter around was all about principle.

Yep. Palin Machine. Like . . . Daley Machine.

I'm not going to rehearse the insanity of Atlantic blogger/columnist Andrew Sullivan and his vagino-spelunking, because you're all familiar with that, although it's interesting that in his link-filled article Edroso manages to segregate out that continuing spectacle of dementia. Instead, I'd like to connect this with the left's meltdown over Carrie Prejean's pageant-paid boob job, which the California pageant organization later attempted to repossess.

Women are, of course, free to have breast enhancement or reduction as they please. But if you're a conservative woman, refabrication of your breasts synecdochically means that you are false, deceptive, inauthentic. And this is really what the attack on Palin's tits was about. Pelosi's plastic surgery doesn't mean a thing to these people, but Palin? Different story.

See, the thing is, if you're conservative, you're held to a different standard of authenticity. You can't possibly be black and conservative. That makes you an Oreo, right? But Bill Clinton was the first black president, in part because he probably screwed more black women than Obama did. That makes him an Oero.

If someone wants to declare a different gender than the one imposed on him/her by the essentialist paradigms of the social construction of sex on his/her passport, though, have at it. It would be repressive to infer that that wasn't authentic. Got it? Good.

UPDATE: Malkin on the tolerant left.

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