Huffington Post is catching some grief over a post by Anya Strzemien titled “Sarah Palin’s Toenails: What’s Painted On Them? (PHOTOS, POLL).” Apparently, the Alaska governor and former Republican vice presidential nominee had some manner of decorative adornment on her nails which were in display in some orange strappy sandals:
While some are taking HuffPo to task for journalistic silliness and questioning whether they have a foot fetish, the most prevalent theme of the critics is whether it’s sexist to comment on how a female public figure looks.
We’ve said many times that focus on a woman’s body parts instead of her ideas and actions is sexist, and that such belittling is aimed at women on both the left and right by both men and women. In this case, some will argue that HuffPo is just having a little fun. However the comments posted after the stroy are classist, sexist, and hateful, which can’t be a surprise to Huffpo. So what about encouraging comments that you know are going to be a mysogyny fest? Is that sexist, too?
Teresa Kopec, who tipped me to the story via Twitter, observes, “There is a lot of anti-woman BS that is going around lately against Palin, Sotomayor, the women targeted by Playboy, etc.”
While perhaps it’s splitting hairs, I would distinguish between sexism and double standards. There’s not much doubt that the way women look is more commented upon than the way men look. That doesn’t necessarily translate into thinking women’s intellects or skills are less important than those of men.
I don’t think, for example, that Hillary Clinton or Sonia Sotomayor have been viewed as silly sex objects. It’s certainly true that Clinton’s appearance has been at issue as long as I can recall her being in public life (which is to say, since 1991 or so). When she was First Lady, her hairdo was especially commented on, as was her choice of pantsuits vice dresses. And WaPo’s Robin Givhan devoted a whole story on C1 to Hillary Clinton’s cleavage. And then there was the case of Condoleezza Rice’s commanding clothes which, according to a C1 story in WaPo, spoke of “sex and power,” also from Givhan.
Do we comment like that on how male public officials dress? No, we don’t.
Still, Clinton is almost universally perceived as an extraordinarily bright and competent woman. She catapulted to the United States Senate despite no real record of her own and was considered the hands-down frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination six years later. And Sotomayor’s words and judicial record, not her toenails or fashion sense, are what we’re focusing on.
Palin is almost a separate case. She was a virtual unknown on the national scene when McCain tabbed her, so her national image was forged by instant impression. By vice presidential standards, she’s extraordinarily attractive. She’s young and a former beauty queen. Further, she dresses in a way that plays up her sexuality. Why, a recent scientifical study found that Palin’s sexiness hurt the ticket. Naturally, the news of said study sparked a round of blogospheric discussion about Palin’s hotness and a backlash against bloggers talking about Palin’s hotness.
Still, while the focus on her appearance goes well beyond what would be normal for a male candidate, it’s not like there wasn’t plenty of commentary on her preparation for the job. Indeed, I’m sure she’d rather we spent more time talking about her legs.
As to this particular controversy, it’s a silly blog post and some of the commentary it drew was particularly unattractive. Palin is a polarizing figure, which doesn’t help. Then again, one can scarcely imagine, say, Tim Pawlenty appearing at a public event in jean shorts and sandals, the male analog to what Palin was photographed in.
Nearly four years after my OTB post on Teri Polo’s Playboy appearance, we’re still getting search traffic looking for the blonde hottie’s naked pics.
Not able to post NSFW photos on that site, I posted links to all the pictures of Teri Polo’s awesome nude body. Unfortunately, the old links have all died. That’s the Internets for you, I guess.
Fortunately, though, I saved copies of them — purely for archival purposes, naturally. Freed from the shackles of a family political blog, I can just post them right here for you to see.
The NSFW ones below the fold, of course, just in case you’re sensitive.
Mendes is quite the naughty girl these days. Eva went topless, licked feet and took part in some extremely kinky photos for Italian Vogue. She also went nude for PETA. Now her Calvin Klein ad that features her sexual side is being banned.
Eva was chosen to represent the designer’s perfume for ladies, “Secret Obsession.” The commercial and posters are ready to hit the mainstream in September 2008. However, due to sexual angle of the ads, it is being banned in America.
“It really taps into the secrecy of a private moment — where it’s clear that Eva is having illicit thoughts,” said Lori Singer, vice president of global marketing for the brand at Coty Prestige, “It’s somewhat up to interpretation — because of how it’s shot, and what you see and hear, and what you can’t see and hear. You hear her voice, talking about having a sexy secret.”
TV networks are snubbing the campaign because, in a nutshell, it is too sexy?
“According to the senior vice president of American fragrances for Coty Prestige, ‘There’s a lot of skin, but it’s tastefully done.’
After paying Mendes a cool $5 million she better have been sexy. She better have been willing to sign over her kidney for that kinda scratch. But seriously there are Sexy Police that put the kibosh on Eva Mendes nude, but Star Jones is still aloud to speak in public? Where is the justice?
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Eva Mendesbared her breasts and licked her feet for Italian Vogue.
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Well, Eva Mendes is certainly not modest and has no qualms with spreading her legs and stripping nude for the camera. I say, more power to her — just don’t expect to see any nudes of Allie any time soon!
Dita Von Teese is fast becoming synonymous with sex and all things kinky. After uprooting a lesbian pornographic past, the burlesque beauty is set to once again strip down for the camera.
Her nude body will be featured in a fetish book that will also show off her feet. Teese herself enjoyies a foot fetish. In her porno, “Pin-Ups 2,” her lesbian partner used a stiletto shoe to pleasure the celebrity. She also sells her worn stockings to eager buyers.
Paris Hilton’s foot is a size 11, but she obviously shoves them into a size 9 shoe.
The heiress revealed a rather unsightly throbbing bunion as she kicked off her vertiginous heels after attending the Miss Turkey 2008 beauty contest in Istanbul.
Left untreated, it became infected and ate a hole down to the bone. Just wait, it’s happening.
source: Ouch! Paris Hilton reveals an icky bunion on her terrifying size 11s [daily mail]
Following in the footsteps of the Bush Twins, Meghan McCain is a young hottie likely to cause problems with dad’s conservative base. And she’s definitely more Jenna than Barbara.
She recently sat down with GQ’s Greg Veis. She made quite an impression.
Meghan McCain arrives at the door to her apartment out of breath and wobbly in calf-high boots. It’s a seventy-five-degree February afternoon in Phoenix, and the 23-year-old daughter of the presumptive Republican nominee for president is wearing a black leather jacket over a scarf and gray scoop-neck T-shirt. I extend my hand to introduce myself, but she knocks it down and wraps me up in a bear hug.
“I’ve never had anybody fly across the country for me who I wasn’t dating,” she says. “I’m so flattered!”
But he didn’t get lucky:
Alas, the tour stops here. Meghan won’t show me her bedroom—it’s too messy, she says. Besides, she’s starving, and she really wants to take me to lunch at one of her favorite restaurants ever, Garduño’s Margarita Factory.
Looking to wine and dine her?
Meghan’s cultural tastes are pretty straight down the middle for a recent college grad. She went crazy for Superbad, Knocked Up, and The Big Lebowski (“I fucking love that movie”). On TV she’s currently riveted by MTV’s A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. “It’s a bisexual-dating show!” she cries. “It’s hilarious!”
When she ticks off a list of celebrities she’s into, she offers a surprising pick: the burlesque stripper Dita Von Teese. “I know she’s not someone you would expect the daughter of a Republican candidate to like, but I love her,” she says. “I love the way she dresses. If I could look like that all day, I would…in her day clothes, I mean.
“And, yes, I know she’s a fetish star, but”—she lowers her head for this—“I think that’s rock ’n’ roll.”
Pretty hot, right?
“You want to hear a hilarious story?” she asks. “I guess you can print this if you want, but it’s not my finest moment. Once, this guy at Columbia was talking to his friends. He was like, ‘Meghan McCain this’ and ‘Meghan McCain that,’ going on, saying that he’d slept with me and that it was great. I just happened to be walking by at the time. I was like, ‘Hi, I’m Meghan McCain. I didn’t realize that we’d met.’ He turned ghost white, so I showed him my ID, and I was like, ‘I’m glad you were sharing our passionate love story.’ ”
So, what’s it going to take to get in this babe’s pants?
“I like bad boys for the most part,” Meghan adds. “In the past, I have liked tattooed guys who wear Converse. But I’d be open to anyone as long as you have a sense of humor. I have also dated totally normal guys who look like you, I guess—D.C.-looking guys.”
“I’m an acquired taste,” Meghan says matter-of-factly. “I’m a daughter of a Republican senator. I started dating this guy, and he wouldn’t date me anymore because he found out who my dad was. He says, ‘I don’t agree with his politics.’ Isn’t that terrible? That’s why you’re dumping me? We only went on two dates, but still. Not everybody wants to go out with somebody so high-profile. If they do, they’re investment bankers. Seriously. Ugh! If you’re an investment banker, don’t hit on me. You can quote me. I’m not interested.”
If you manage to get past all that — and the Secret Service detail — you at least shouldn’t have to put up with a lot of games.
Meghan puts it more succinctly: “I’m almost incapable of bullshit. He’s the same way.”
You can see more of Meghan at the McCainBlogette blog, which has lots of photos and some hot, sexy videos. Well, actually, the videos are pretty tame — no nudity or anything like that — but she’s pretty hot.
The boys at GreenMountainPolitics think so too. They’ve got a photo of her bare feet with a little tatoo of a star on them.
Hayden Panettiere replaces Fergie as the new rep for Candies. The spring 2008 campaign is cashing in on the barely legal Heroes vixen. She told everyone how grateful she is to be working with the company pimped by Kohls.
“I am excited to be working with Candie’s. Their campaigns are fun and playful and always feature the hottest stars. I am honored to be the new Candie’s ‘girl’ and I look forward to working with them on lots of exciting projects.”
What a well trained puppet she is. I can barely see the PR rep pulling her strings.
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Source: Girlie Fun with Hayden Panettiere [E Online]
Sting has sex with his wife! And he likes to suck her toes!
This earth-shattering scandal has been unearthed by the Daily Mail:
As a display of affection, it could hardly have been more public.
Docked in Sydney harbour on a hired yacht costing £17,500 a day, Sting gently raised Trudie Styler’s left leg to his mouth - and sucked her toes.
The Police singer, whose personal life has been surrounded by rumours of tantric sex and swingers’ parties, also found time to massage her feet as she reclined on a sunlounger.
The 56-year-old and his 53-year-old wife are taking a break in the Australian sun with their four children aged 23 to 12.
This is just wrong! Sting should find some hottie his kids’ age (well, not the 12-year-old) and have sex with her!
Source: “Toe curling: Ageing rock star Sting caught sucking wife Trudie’s feet” [Daily Mail]
It’s not like we haven’t seen Bai Ling’s nipples more than we really need to, but here are some new Bai Ling topless pictures from Photographie magazine, in which we can truly appreciate just how ginormous Bai Ling’s nipples really are. Weird. Hot, but weird.
If a picture says a thousand words, then he’s also another five thousand words’ worth to say, too.
TMZ spotted the director sucking the nail polish off some random woman’s foot at Empress sushi joint on the Sunset Strip recently. After the “meal” and a few drinks, Q posed for pictures and hopefully downed some Scope.
This is getting plenty of attention in the gossip-sphere:
Dlisted: “What’s For Lunch?! Well if you ask Quentin Tarantino that question, he’ll say ‘Jam!’”
Jane Krakowski, who stars as sketch comedian Jenna Maroney on the NBC comedy 30 Rock and was formerly the slutty secretary on Allie McBeal, gives men some advice about women in Esquire’s “10 Things You Don’t Know About Women” column.
1. When you break up with us, that means it’s over, and we will only sleep with you two or three more times.
2. When you’re talking dirty to us, call us a whore and not a prostitute.
3. Straight men should take a thirteen-week course from a gay man to fully appreciate what’s fabulous about women.
4. Though we’re happiest in the company of gay men, we’re embarrassed when we marry one.
5. No, we didn’t see last week’s Battlestar Galactica.
6. We find dark-colored sheets creepy. And they don’t conceal stains.
7. You shouldn’t pass up a three-way because you “love us too much.”
8. When a hot woman walks by and we ask if she’s your type, refrain from saying things like “Nah, I like a woman with a little meat on her bones” as you give us a squeeze.
9. You look way sexier when you come home all unkempt from Survivor than you do all cleaned up at the reunion show.
10. It’s sexy when you cook for us. Unless you’re wearing an apron. Then it’s just weird.
Palin is almost a separate case. She was a virtual unknown on the national scene when McCain tabbed her, so her national image was forged by instant impression. By vice presidential standards, she’s extraordinarily attractive. She’s young and a former beauty queen. Further, she dresses in a way that plays up her sexuality. Why, a recent scientifical study found that Palin’s sexiness hurt the ticket. Naturally, the news of said study sparked a round of blogospheric discussion about Palin’s hotness and a backlash against bloggers talking about Palin’s hotness.
“I am excited to be working with Candie’s. Their campaigns are 
As a display of affection, it could hardly have been more public.
