Coffee, Tea or Hillary?

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Q. Who could possibly be "surprised" that in choosing women to date, college-aged men tend to prefer beauty over brains?

A. An Ivy League professor.

What is truly surprising is that Maureen Dowd thinks this commonplace about men's preferences has implications for Hillary's campaign strategy. Dowd propounds her odd theory in her column of this morning, "Should Hillary Pretend to Be a Flight Attendant?"


Dowd recounts the story of Columbia University professor Ray Fisman [whose wife, we're told, proposed to him]. So unsure was Fisman of what makes daters tick that he felt a two-year year study of college students' preferences was justified. In some of the least surprising research results in academic history, he found that men are looking for good-looking women while women are more interested in a man's brains and ambition.

Least surprising, that is, except to Fisman himself, according to Dowd [emphasis added].

The results surprised him and made him a little sad because he found that even in the 21st century, many men are still straitjacketed in stereotypes.

“I guess I had hoped that they had evolved beyond this,” he said in a phone interview. “It’s like that ‘Sex and the City’ episode where Miranda went speed-dating. When she says she’s a lawyer, guys lose interest. Then she tells them she’s a flight attendant and that plays into their deepest fantasies.”

From whence Dowd draws her headline, wondering whether Hillary should pretend to be a flight attendant [or "stewardess" as Mika Brzezinki recently said in a bout of un-PCness].

Could Dowd possibly be more wrong? American men aren't looking to date Hillary -- they're looking to elect a president. They're looking for competence and strength. Men supported Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir because they possessed those qualities -- not because they offered coffee, tea or me.

Men -- and many women I'd venture -- are turned off when the first time Hillary was seriously challenged in a debate on a substantive matter, she ran off to the friendly confines of her all-women's alma matter to play the gender card and brought in Bill to protect her.

You don't have to be an Ivy League professor -- or a New York Times columnist - to understand that kernel of common sense. In fact, it actually helps to be neither.

—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.


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}}---> Mile High Hillary

Let's all close our eyes and imagine Hillary in one of those '70's hotpants stewardess outfits.

Now install new keyboard, clean up, and try to keep the next breakfast down.

If we have to imagine this,

If we have to imagine this, can we assume she has had a bath?

?

How would her ankles fit thru those tight fitting clothes?

Evolve???

You mean evolve from the way things have been since Adam and Eve...because that's how God created our different sexualities. Isn't going to happen, not when a man and woman's mind work differently. Jeez and I'm not even a professor.

Do you realize how much it costs to run for office? More than any honest man could afford. -Montgomery Burns

It's Worse than that..

For Dowd its even worse than she said. American men just don't want to date Dowd.

Perhaps Hillary and Dowdy the beauty men seek also comes from the heart. Your scowls are real no no's.

I thought that pic was

I thought that pic was PuffHo.

Could Dowd possibly be more

Could Dowd possibly be more wrong? American men aren't looking to date Hillary, they're looking to elect a president.

Dowd is implying that American men are too stupid to know what they need in a President, and would want a woman who simpers and flirts.

But, you know, every rabid feminist believes that if a man doesn't like her, it's only because he feels threatened by her.

Beauty and Brains

I am lucky. My wife is beautiful and very intelligent!

oh, I'm sorry MD, were you saying something...?


Islamic Religious Services Will Be Held at the Firing Range At 0800 Daily.

Come November '08,

Come November '08, Americans will be going to the polls to vote for the person with the highest integrity, decisive, strong character and one who LOVES this country and not the enemies!  Well, so far none of the democrack leftoids don't have those traits I enumerated, Yes including Hillary...and, well, a few other of the Republicans. 

 

"...because he found that

"...because he found that even in the 21st century, many men are still straitjacketed in stereotypes."

But the women aren't "straitjacketed" by their stereotypes? Why the double standard?

}}---> Shallow attractions

And women gravitate to money and power.

I guess we all have our idiosyncrasies.

i thought the feminazi's

i thought the feminazi's had evolved beyond stereotypes too

I'm dissappointed

When i tell feminists i'm an evangelist they lose all interest

But if I tell them I'm an airline pilot they get all excited - it fits into their fantasy much better

etc

etc

Sorry, but I refuse to take

Sorry, but I refuse to take criticism from a guy who watches chic trash like Sex in the City.

Islamic Religious Services Will Be Held at the Firing Range At 0800 Daily.

It is the media who have

It is the media who have turned politics into a "cult of personality." They drone on endlessly about clothes, hair, shoes, who "relates" better to the electorate, who you would want to babysit your kids, who holds hands with the voters, who "connects" in heaven-knows how many stupid ways, who "feels your pain," etc.

They focus on all the tangential things that they claim influence voters in subtle ways, and then berate those same voters for thinking in those terms. And then they wonder why most candidates seem more focused on making a good "impression" in the shallowest of ways, and lack "substance."

Hippies used drugs to make

Hippies used drugs to make their ugly liberal girlfriends look better.

 Well,  you can put pearls

 Well,  you can put pearls and lipstick on a pig but......

pretty

I would say the airlines have trouble enough.  Can you see hiring stews who look and or have personalities like Hillary?

Have You Flown Lately?

They already do. Lawsuits on sexism, ageism, and weightism have destroyed the prurient experience of flying. Another reason to only use foreign arlines on international flights. They don't have our qualms about only hiring eye candy.

Dowd Report: All MoDo, All The Time

Why is the hot lawyer surprised

That we tend to like hot flight attendants?? Lawyers act like lawyers, and flight attendants don't. In this case, for once, it's NOT all about looks. And sadly http://www.john-ross... no-longer works.
JMR

Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul.

links dead sarc...

Can you give us the punch line? 

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Fred (who also belongs on "the list" come to think of it!)

Has it, too. Dunno what happened with the John Ross links, but except that he's a conservative Democrat, Ross might belong on the list, too.
JMR

Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul.

hooters airlines - what

hooters airlines - what happened there, sarc? i thought it was $$$ in the bank...

I think it still (barely) exists...

But as a service for their Las Vegas digs, which is said to be doing quite well, but I'd need to check on that personally to verify...
JMR

Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul.

They're Gone

They stopped flying in 2006, but announced plans earlier this year to resume some flights in early 2008.

Haha good link! Some of my fav lines are:

"I weary of the self-absorbed clucking of aging poultry."

"Why is Maureen hermetically single?"

"She probably gets more daily maintenance than a 747"

"Reading her unending plaints, one concludes that she is deeply in love—with herself, and too loyal ever to cheat with a man."

LOL!

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Maureen basically hates

Maureen basically hates men. period.

MOM

Can I do a two year study and get a rich grant...

...to say that men prefer women that act like women and not like crazy left wing feminists who hate men and women prefer men that act like men and not like effeminent wimps who don't stand for anything.

 

Do you realize how much it costs to run for office? More than any honest man could afford. -Montgomery Burns

   Well let's see... 

   Well let's see...  this article is really a further complaint about why men don't support hillary in large numbers and then the analysis is it's because men haven't evolved!  Gee, good tactic, insult those you want support from.

 

It's Not About Hillary

The column is really a list of reasons why Dowd can't get a date. With scholarly back-up.

http://dowdreport.bl...

Dowd Report: All MoDo, All The Time

}}---> It's all about MoDo

I'm sure she could nab an ugly man who just wants to stay home, but she wouldn't put herself to the same scrutiny as she does the men who stay away from her in droves.

Dowd is wrong on so many

Dowd is wrong on so many levels, where does one start????  Let's see, first there is confirmation bias - cherry picking a group to get the desired results.  Tell us dear professor Fisman was this study done on only college students which so many of these rediculous studies spewed out by universities typically do????  You know 20 somethings with raging hormones????   Did the study group reflect general society with a bonified statistical respresentation of socio-economic, gender, race, and age??  Did one account for MATURITY on any level??   What you ascribe your PC view of groups, i.e. gender and evolution I ascribe to individual character, maturity and experience.  

Ms Dowd has been repeatedly guilty of confirmation bias in her writings, a sign of a bigot, in her case a hate filled feminist bigot.  One does not need to eat tripe to know what it is.  Here's some advice Ms Dowd that bears repeating, if you fish at the bottom you get catfish and eels, if you fish at the surface and midwater you get trout and bass.  Life is not about choiceless victimhood, but about your choices. All choices have consequences, pick the consequence you want and then make the appropriate choice. 

Every barrel has it's rotten apples, I do not judge women as a group by your example Ms Dowd precisely because your one of those rotten apples.

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. dscott's corollary: The line between malice and stupidity is called depraved indifference.

"Pretend"

Obviously Dowd instinctively knows Hillary has to pretend to be something other than what she is. Of course, saying that she needs to be a bubble-headed stewardess type is just anti-men feminazi bigotry. 

Men will vote for a Maggie Thatcher even though they might rather date someone else...

Newsflash to Ms. Maur-on:  We men can distinguish between a candidate for political office and a potential date.

maureen dowd has so many hangups aboout men...

it's hard to take any opinion she has of male-female relationships seriously. almost all of her columns reek of her own deep insecurity over failed relationships with men - which is well-known ... imus pointed this out all the time.

the stewardess line seems to be an obvious hint of 50+ year old single female's frustration that men must be too weak and stupid to be attracted to a highly intellectual woman (which is what maureen views herself to be). she appears to be using hillary as an extension of herself. so it is amusing that she portrays herself/hillary as highly intellectual, sophisticated and powerful, as well as physically and emotionally irresitable to men. reality, on the other hand, is that men view her as a bitter, sagging hag of a liberal suffering from man-hating, permanent PMS and bitter about her love-life being nothing more than a serial one-night-stand act with never-ending "walks of shame".

I think Hillary should

I think Hillary should pretend to be a woman, not a ball-monger and fugly man.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

Hillary: entirely devoid of sex appeal

Hillary is a modern marvel, a woman entirely devoid of sex appeal.

"Step right up! .."

Mo Do-Do ...

Mo Do-Do ...

Here ya go, hun:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PkOoffCnR9s

Coffee, tea, but not me

Now that Dowd has achieved feminist nirvana as a writer for The New York Times, she writes like a person who is frustrated and unfulfilled.

It appears that she bought into The Feminine Mystique lock-stock-and-barrel, and it ain’t working for her.

Over the years her putdowns of men are legion, which Sigmund Freud would find fascinating. And, although she admits to dating men, why do I feel that being ‘serviced’ by them doesn’t enter into her relationships.

It's a good thing...

we've had 2000 years of Christianity to teach us God looks at the heart, and that He made us in His image, male and female.  Oh, wait a minute, I forgot we are talking about the same crowd that says Christian "fundamentalists" are just as bad as Islamic terrorists.  My bad.