DUmmy Marinumbers, a bitter, hateful oldtimer at the DUmp, ignites a postively gigantic bonfire over the weekend, based on her jealousy and hatred for young cute chicks, something she clearly never was. She draws hundreds of comments from other female DUmmies, who are equally unattractive, but unknown and worthless. You know, as mean and hate-filled as DUmmy women are, it seems to me they should prefer to be judged on their homely appearance.
Mari333 (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 11:36 AM
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CNN, bimbos, and ageism
On Thanksgiving day, as I awaited the arrival of my family and my riffraff friends , I was surfing the channels on my pitiful television , attempting to watch some semblance of news.
I arrived at CNN, and , as I checked on my dinner cooking, I watched a bit of a segment with a vacant eyed large haired 20 something woman speaking
OMG! her face seemed to say OMG! as tho she were some kid on reddit all excited about the news. She was evidently supposed to be a news anchor, but I was struck by her nonchalant demeanor, as tho she might yell "OMG! there was a drone attack in Afghanistan and OMG!! so many people were killed EWWWW!!"
no, she started her segment off like this:
"Is there life after 50 for women??? yes there is!! keep watching"
commercial came on. I kept watching to see if there was life after 50 for women. (which, by then, had pissed me off to even hear someone say that)
THEN, she proceeded, after the commercial, to show a segment on the Red Hat Ladies, this organization of older women who wear `red hats and meet for tea and tap dancing, which is nice, but her words in the segment were thus:
"There really IS life after 50 ladies!! the RED HAT LADIES show us that even women who have reached THAT age can find meaning in their lives! "
I was then afforded the absolute joy of watching a lot of women over 50 as they smiled and waved at the camera in red hats and as the segment ended it showed them tap dancing and the 20 something 'news anchor' ended with this assinine verbiage
'ARENT THEY CUTE!??'
Well, you little bitch.
I am almost 60, so I am well ****ing over 50, and I dont need a *******ed red hat, you obnoxious little tw*t, to have meaning in my *******ed life.
Perhaps we ladies over 50 or 60 should hire people dressed as the Grim Reaper to follow us around with a scythe all day to remind ourselves about our lack of meaning and impending doom?
Cute? Cute? Kiss my ass, you brain dead Muffy.
Yeah, this is ageism. and it pisses me off.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7103290NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 11:41 AM
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4. Great Rant! K&R!
Who knew as we were growing up that Barbie would be anchoring the news?
Of course, some of them have brains, are very articulate and intelligent and worked hard to get there.
But I think about the different standards for men and for women with respect to age and beauty, and I KNOW it's ****ed up.
It's a miracle that Greta VanSusternenenen got a gig, but there's an exception for every rule.
Most of the men are butt fugly.
Greta was kinda scary until she bought her new clown face. Actually, still a little scary.
noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-29-09 11:15 AM
228. what about women who are experienced and strong
and healthy-looking?
And the ones who don't sweat much.
csziggy (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 11:43 AM
7. But is there meaningful life for bimbos under the age of 30?
From what I see on the pseudo-news, the answer is a resounding "NO!" The vaporheads they put on instead of paying for real journalists suck the meaning right out of current events.
From another nearing 60 women who has meaning to my life without a *******ed red hat.
demigoddess (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 07:27 PM
164. yes, as a slightly over 60 woman, I wonder what these girls will do when they
pass 30 or 35. Do they read anything, make anything? Do they do anything except turn themselves out so they look beautiful? Do they clean their own homes?? garden?? anything?? I see no sign of it.
csziggy (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-29-09 04:37 PM
245. They just seem clueless about real life, don't they?
And so ignorant about so many things it is frightening. I don't know what they do when they are not onscreen, since they obviously do not research or write the news they read on air. As a woman who supported equal rights and women's causes all my life, I am appalled at the empty heads of some of the most visible women in this country. What did we fight for all these years if these are what the next generation will see as successful females?
I hope DUmmy cszizzy isn't talking about the heroine Maxine Waters. Or the Speaker of the House.
av8rdave (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 11:47 AM
13. As a male over 50...
I have no life. Thank GOD for that segment!
Demoiselle (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 11:48 AM
14. And who, exactly, does this Bimbo think she's talking to?
Last time I checked, CNN's viewer demographic favored people considerably older than 30. "Aren't THEY cute?" Yes, honey. We're adorable and growing more so. Grrrrr. Excellent rant.
pipi_k (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 11:52 AM
16. A truly excellent rant!!!!!
And you know, I'll tell you what else pisses me off...
Young snots who think they know everything and I know nothing. Like my being on this earth 15...20...37 years longer than they have means shit.
The fact that they show NO respect at all for someone older than they are.
And I'm ****ing sick and tired of being told I should "act my age" if I decide I want to be silly. I've been on this earth nearly 60 years too, and I've lived through some shit that would curl some people's hair. I figure I am entitled to act however I want to whenever I want to. If I want to be silly, I'll ****ing BE silly. If I want to be dignified, then I'll be that, too. If I want to be cranky, deal with it.
It's the same thing I told my MIL who lived to be 93...she earned the right to do and say certain things and **** anyone who didn't like it.
Mari333 (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 11:57 AM
17. amen and that reminds me of last week
when I took 3 of my woman friends with me to a Blues concert here in town.
It was a blues band and they played some damned good music.
we got up and danced, and my 70 yr old friend was rockin. she is incredible.
but what happens? some guy comes up to us and says
"where are the men dancing with you gals? dont you have husbands?"
um, we are widows.
and I looked right at him and said " wild women dance, get used to it."
he backed off.
Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-30-09 04:34 PM
260. It's not just the networks
>They are put on as eye candy and think they are journalists.<
I was HOWLING with laughter over an interview with a local sports reporter about a month ago. She's not smart. She's gorgeous, she has an incredible body, but she's dumb as a post. She was being interviewed about the Erin Andrews situation. The journalist asking her questions asked if she thought her looks had anything to do with her job. She was irate. She said it didn't matter what she looked like, she was there to do a job, which made me laugh.
The TV station in question has bios for each of their personalities on their website. There's nothing about her, besides the fact she was hired as a reporter four years ago and is now the weekend sports anchor. Of course she got the job because she's qualified...
lunatica (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 12:27 PM
31. What the bimbettes don't have a clue about
Is that we older women have evolved past the terror of aging only to find much more meaning and downright contentment in our lives. It's like we have this secret that only those of us past 50 (I'm 61) have discovered. My 50s were the best years of my life up to then. My 60s are feeling very good too. I wouldn't go back for anything. Not being seen and judged as a brainless sex object anymore is totally liberating.
If bimbettes everywhere are lucky enough they'll live past their 50th birthday.
I have a hunch that everywhere DUmmy lunatica goes, clocks stop.
The only DUmmy in the thread other than moles and unimportant no-names is the violently homely, drug-addicted, hateful ex-nurse DUmmy Warpy:
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 11:42 AM
I could never understand why my mother would ball up her fist at the TV whenever one of these vapid bimbos would do a promo for stuff she'd have murdered us if we'd tried to tune into when I was young, but I sure as hell understand now.
The only thing a young woman has over an old woman is viable eggs, and we old broads are glad to be relieved at that burden and to be able to thumb our noses at the fertility aisle of the supermarket as we pass it by.
The arrogance and ageism of these idiotic blow dried bimbos the networks consider attractive is absolutely astonishing since they're going to get old someday, too.
If we let them live.
Mari333 (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-28-09 12:02 PM
21. the commercials on TV for anti wrinkle cream, for instance
NEVER MENTION WOMEN OVER 50
they always say "Ladies! if you are over 40!"
its like WOMEN OVER 50 OR 60 OR 70 DONT EXIST..
the only women I see in commercials my age are in MOTHER****ING WHEELCHAIRS AND SCOOTERS ON MORNING TV
With that, you might get the idea that DUmmy Marinumbers is about to go over the edge into undergroundpantherland. Well if so, you would be right. She turns around and starts another thread, this one in the lounge:
Mari333 (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-01-09 07:39 PM
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Love DU but gotta go for a long time
Its kind of like Free Republic these days.
Been here a longggg time but Im outta here.
Maybe when real progressives return, so will I.
au revoir. and thanks.
Mari333
She put her heart and soul into that rant hating on cute chicks, and just got a bunch of no-names to comment. She cannot draw the cool kids, so it's "goodbye, cruel world".
Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-01-09 08:32 PM
9. yeah, what he said
I think you should hand out here with the cool kids who are above that crap
Another one who reads franksolich, even adding the little waving doodad.
