Catriona, the lady in red..

Exeggcute wrote: »

Imagine if she had blown him and he penetrated her with a cigar in the oval office....oh wait that was Bill and Monica.

More like the oval orifice.

"Nice smile, but still only 5 maybe 6."

Murrisk wrote: »

It's a terrible video from deep in the Youtube rabbit hole. It's grainy and of poor quality. It basically looks a big crease in his trousers. There is no way to surmise that that is a trousersnake from the information given. It's truly dreadful. And it's not the first time you've wheeled it out, the last time was when Trump was taking some well-deserved flack over pussy-gate. This was apparently to show that Obama is as bad. I would be embarrassed to post something like that.

Is that you Barack?!

The more you try to deny your raging bull, the more obvious it is that you got one.

This occasion reminds me of a song -

🎶

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, sure 'tis like a morn in spring.

In the lilt of Irish laughter, you can hear the angels sing.

When Irish hearts are happy, all the world seems bright and gay,

And When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, sure, they steal your heart away.

at least we have a story to mark the start of silly season

Don't panic OP, Una Mullaly is on the case

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/creepiness-in-action-women-need-to-call-out-this-behaviour-1.3137753

Carry wrote: »

What is the problem?
There is a journalist who was commissioned to report about the phone call between Varadkar and that American imbecile who calls imself president, he couldn't handle a political conversation, if there ever could be one between people who don't know feck all about each other, or at least that Yank doesn't know know red from blue ... hang on, he knows red if it's a red dress on a blond woman.

Anyway, to distract from his ingnorance he hit on what he knows best: a young blonde.

So who is to blame? A female journalist who happens to be young and attractive or an old lecher who uses his supposed power as alpha male to suffocate any political conversation he hasn't a clue about anyway by distracting to "lovely smiles" (not his though)?

And what it is about red dresses? What association have the gentleman of AH with it?

I don't know this Catriona woman, don't know her work, I'm not on twitter either. But I watched that video because it was all over the place.
If Varadkar on the phone had any backbone he would have shouted: Oi, I'M talking to you! Well, I would, and more ...

And what it is about red dresses? What association have the gentleman of AH with it?

I don,t know what the association the gentlemen of AH have with red dresses.

I do know you don't wear a red dress unless you have a lot of confidence and you certainly don't wear a tight red dress unless you are very confident. Red is a colour that stands out and says hey look at me.

I'm not discounting the fact that women, due to societal context, would be more likely than not to be offended by this kind of talk, but where feminists are saying "imagine if a female politician did this to a male reporter", I think this is one of those cases in which feminists need to accept that men and women are different. Women are offended by this kind of carry on and therefore they shouldn't be subjected to it, which is absolutely fair enough, but they're making a mistake by appealing to a gender-flip to demonstrate, a la Una Mullally in today's Irish Times:

One can’t imagine Perry’s predecessor as RTÉ’s US correspondent, Richard Downes, having his appearance and smile being commented on by a female politician in full view of the world’s press. Can you imagine if a female leader did what Trump did to a male journalist? Or a gay male leader did what Trump did to a male journalist?

To be quite honest, I'm pretty sure that if it did happen, the vast majority of lads wouldn't give a bollocks about it happening to themselves, let alone be outraged on another lad's behalf. It's just not really the way we think - or maybe that's just me? I've worked for female managers before and if one of them sleazily told me that I looked like I'd been spending a lot of time in the gym, I'd probably just go "well I really haven't but I'm glad I've still 'got it' nonetheless"

It's just one of those things that women find offensive while lads - regardless of whether it happened to them or another lad - are unlikely to think is a big deal. Obviously there's a social and historical context there so I'm not invalidating the fact that women find it offensive, I'm merely pointing out that the "imagine if this happened to a male reporter" line is redundant - if it did happen to a male reporter, I'm pretty sure most peoples' reaction, including the reporter in question, would be a resounding "meh".

Ballstein wrote: »

Looks like a master stroke by Catriona Perry, global front page news. Wearing a figure hugging tight red dress in front of a perverted old codger with a predisposition for young, toothy blonds. She may play coy, but it's straight out of a Ron Burgundy movie such was the predictability of it all. Oh and save your "she should be able wear what ever she likes crap", it was a carefully calculated move on her behalf that has sent her profile stratospheric.

Maybe she did and maybe she didn't but in all fairness to the orange one he can do and has done a lot better.

He was only toying with her, that's his personality. He would have been called a charmer 30 years ago, now at his age it's "perverted old codger."

Exeggcute wrote: »

Liberal left and media hypocrisy.

The same dingbats attacking Trump are the same dingbats that tried to sweep Clinton's sleaze under the carpet.

Nobody tried to do that. Clinton was impeached for something that would be laughed off today by the same people if Trump were to do it. Trump is the guy that was fantasizing about sex with his own daughter.

The so called liberal media are the reason Trump is in office right now. They humanized this guy and gave him thousands of hours of free press in 2015-16 all the while ignoring most of his past. This guy is president http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/donald-trump-sexism-tracker-every-offensive-comment-in-one-place/