Instead, they seem to have decided to be belligerently wrong until the day that they leave.
Those are pictures from today of part of the first page of the New York Times's website. Apparently, Mrs. Obama's pose in earrings and a shirt promoting child molestation, voyeurism and involuntary pornography is for an issue of the New York Times Style magazine for which she'll be featured on the cover.
These are pictures of parts of the page that correspond to that section of the first page of the website.
From the first letter:
"America's cheapest caricature"? What about my being forced to be naked in front of millions of people in a visual, sexual assault that will never end until humanity is extinct? Not only naked; videotaped using toilets and in every other way that it's possible to use a camera to degrade a human being where she has to live her life. The conglomerate has repeatedly committed and promoted crime to sell the world's cheapest caricature of Stupid Slut about me.
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Then the letter continues:
When I tried to have a membership at the YMCA nearest to the Pine Street Inn, I and every other woman who had a membership at that gym were videotaped by cameras hidden in the locker room and showers. The conglomerate victim-blamed me for it, and has ignored the fact that all of those women were also filmed, and that there might also have been hidden cameras in the men's and children's locker rooms. The cameras might still be there.
Despite everything that I have written about my four years of conglomerate-induced homelessness, the conglomerate is full of people who choose not to fathom what it's like to live in homeless shelters.
"No public figure better embodies that mantra of full female selfhood: Wear what you like."
I'd like to wear clothing. I'd like to have the right of not being naked in front of strangers not be ripped away from me.
From the second letter, noncontiguous text separated by lines:
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Until today, the macabre thought that either Obama could ever be in public office again had never occurred to me.
You trust her judgment? Why?
From the third letter:
Where and when is this author suggesting that the Obamas hid their ambition?
Was there ever a President who more strenuously sidestepped the responsibilities of being President in favor of being a celebrity? The only thing that's going to change about the Obamas when they've left the White House is that they'll get worse.
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If I haven't prevailed over the conglomerate's scrutiny, that's because the conglomerate's cameras are permanently zeroed in on my vagina, and because I am impoverished and can't deflect or stop the abuse. The idea that the Obamas care about marginalized people is laughable except for not being funny. They have enjoyed their power to marginalize people far more than they have advocated for the marginalized.
Who's more helpless than children to stop abuse from adults?
From the fourth letter:
There's nothing modern about the Obamas. To be specific, they are corrupt, and corruption is nothing that the world hasn't seen before.
The conglomerate's deliberate destruction of all of my opportunities and its repeated crimes against me are forcing me to be characterized to the world as being less than a thing. Everything that the conglomerate has done since 2010 has been geared toward making the world think of women as being even less than sex objects; the conglomerate has done nothing other than to spend almost 7 years propagating murderous misogyny around the world.
The first sentence of the letter's next paragraph is:
"If feminism's goal is equal opportunity and choice, Michelle makes me feel like every choice is available."
Available to whom? To those whom the world's most powerful people and institutions decide not to persecute?
Three of the letters were written by women who self-describe or who are described by the article as feminists, which is both sickening and a deliberate manipulation by the New York Times. One of the conglomerate's favorite distortions is to conflate specious nonsense with sincere ideals. The conglomerate's promotion of human rights abuses misrepresented as a contemporary Civil Rights Movement. ALS awareness used to ridicule victims of voyeurism and involuntary pornography.
It's also noteworthy that the three women all praise Mrs. Obama for being feisty while the man praises her for, according to him, being demure.
This is a picture of part of his letter:
That age-old stereotype of the crafty woman maintaining her reserve in public while wielding a "feminine" type of power behind closed doors; the author of that paragraph is about as feminist as the other three.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 18, 2016 @ 9:24 a.m.
