The Professor is an Idiot

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I Denounce the Professor as an Idiot
I usually take a wide berth of any type of political marketing gimmicks or issues. But the Sarah Palin action figure caught my eye.

HeroBuilders.com has made three action figures of the Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate. The figures include the Sarah Palin business figure, complete with glasses, a suit and her hair pulled back in a bun. The Sarah Palin hero action figure looks like something from the movie "The Matrix," with a long black coat opened to show a gun holster on her thigh. And the Sarah Palin School Girl ... which is raising eyebrows and feminists' ire because the risqué doll dons a red bra and a short skirt.

Kathleen Angco-Vieweg, an assistant professor of sociology at American International College in Springfield, Mass., denounced the dolls as "sexist." I quickly denounced Ms. Angco-Vieweg as an "idiot."

No one was paying much attention to any of the dolls until Ms. Angco-Vieweg and others condemned them. Earth to Ms. Angco-Vieweg ... it's a joke. It's an election year. There are more socially damaging McCain and Obama things for sale on the internet that are way worse than being sexist ... they're just plain "wrong" in almost every sense of the word. Where was your indignation and outrage when those things went on the market?

It's a doll. (I know this because you can see plastic joints where her knees should be.) She's a public figure. (I know this because I saw her on Saturday Night Live.) Ms. Angoc-Vieweg needs to get a life. (I know this because she has a hyphen in her name.) Man I'll be glad when this election is over.

Here's Something for the Professor to Denounce
Wing Women is a company with offices in New York and Las Vegas that sells women for $75 an hour to accompany men who need help getting dates. That's right. The women go with the "clients" and try to help them pick up other women for future dates. Huh?

Anyway, here's what the Web site says about women.
"Women are attracted to men who have women around them ..." (in other words, women can't be trusted)
"Women want what they can't have."
"Women are very jealous and love to compete with one another."
"Women tend to lower their defenses around men who have other women around them."
.. and the generalities go on and on and on. You should click on the link above and see for yourself what else they have to say about women.

I for one find all of these statements "sexist." So Professor Angco-Vieweg, why don't you forget the "fake" Palin doll and denounce this "real" woman-owned company?

Yes, I Give a Hoot
The professor really isn't going to like this.

This little bit of editorializing isn't for the 800 or so of my blog readers who don't live in WI. But you may still find it interesting. After all, you probably aren't even aware that Brookfield, WI exists. And I'm sure that you don't know that it's the moral-watchdog capital of the world. At least some aldermen think it is.

First, let's put things in perspective. Millions upon millions of adults and children watched the Olympics. And according to TV ratings, women's beach volleyball was second only to swimming in popularity. I have no idea why.

Okay, I have a fair idea why ... it was the uniforms ... or lack there-of.

Now compare what was on display on TV for adults and children all over the world to see with what lurks behind the walls of a true den of iniquity ... Hooters.
 

Yes, folks, some elected officials in Brookfield, WI want to shine the national spot light on our state and hold it up to ridicule by trying to block a Hooters from opening in this fair city.  Their reason ... they're protecting "the children." You see, there's a grade school within a mile of the place. I want to throw up. But more importantly I want to go to Hooters.

Hooters is a restaurant. Yes, the name is suggestive and the women a little provocative.  But there's nothing lethal or corruptive about a Hooters. As my friend Gene Miller said, "Don't sweat the atmosphere or the proximity to classrooms. Worry instead about your cholesterol."     

Folks have a right not to like a Hooters ... and they can vote with their wallets by going somewhere else.  As for the kids? They can just walk on by ... no that's not right ... kids don't walk anywhere anymore. So they can ride by in their parents' cars. There are no sidewalks near the proposed site anyway.

Two restaurants, Bombay Bicycle Club and Pedro's failed at the facility now owned by the Hooters franchise. Hooters will not fail. It will attract business and be successful. And if other Hooters are any indication, (and why shouldn't they be?), Brookfield's Hooters will sponsor charity events, donate to civic causes and in general be the type of involved business citizen that the Chamber of Commerce would like others to emulate.

Of course this is the same group of elected officials that made La Quinta repaint its new hotel, because some people didn't like the shade of "pink" used on portions of the building. It is now the only La Quinta in the country not painted to normal corporate standards. Boy those elected officials really protected the citizens with that ruling, didn't they? Professor Angco-Vieweg would fit right in with this group.

Give me a frigging break. The people of Brookfield better show a little common sense by putting elected officials in office who care about real issues.