Comments on: The Fashion Police

By: CyndiF

CyndiF — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:22:31 +0000

I believe, ripley, that there is a misdomenor (or however you spell it) code that Sheehan was in violation of, concerning political demonstrations in the visitor’s gallery. Whether it should be a law or not is debatable, though I assume that it was put into place to try to limit noisy, organized demonstrations indoors undertaken for publicity purposes.

By: VeddyVeddyBadAng

VeddyVeddyBadAng — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:08:26 +0000

JMe asks “Who gets to decide what “good taste” is?”

Great question! Guess who gets to decide? ALL of us. Society decides what good taste is. The majority gets to say what is and is not acceptable, and then the rebellious can choose to go against it. Now, the real discussion is, what becomes of a society where the ideal is rebellion and good taste is considered undesirable? We seem to be smack in the middle of that situation, with such holdouts as Miss Manners and the Manolo struggling to hold on to the traditional definition of good taste. I hope they win, but it’s not looking good.

By: littlesplines

littlesplines — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:02:20 +0000

as the owner of the ferrets in the picture, I just want to give out some info.
yes, those are ferrets, they are fancies, which tend to have more health problems
compared to sables and albinos. the pic was taken on Canada day in Ottawa,
where the two RCMP kindly agreed to pose for a picture with Sand and Polar Bear.
Polar Bear was white, and Sand was more of a beige colour. I’m not quite sure how
the picture end up on this site, but I’m glad most viewers seem to agree that
the ferres were properly dressed. Sand and Bear were both descented, so they
were not armed.

By: McSarah

McSarah — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:25:58 +0000

Not to get totally off topic, but OH how I miss the days of summer, I remember it like it was yesterday, opening my browser to see ‘flipping and flopping in the house of the whiteness’ I miss summer, even the oppressive, flip flop requiring heat of a DC summer!

By: JMe

JMe — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 01:16:36 +0000

Dress code is one thing, arrest for violation of dress code is quite another. Charges that never should have been made were dropped for both.
Two other points:
Who gets to decide what “good taste” is?
If everyone who dressed in violation of good taste was arrested, we’d all have a police record.

By: garnets

garnets — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:08:09 +0000

Mother Sheehan has shown herself to be a media hound of the worst sort.
Any sympathy I had for her over the loss of her son - who signed up for a second tour of duty in Iraq, after all- has long since evaporated.

No T-shirts allowed at the SOTU. Act like adults, please.

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:58:12 +0000

Hola to the Fausta! It is La BellaDonna’s understanding that the dress uniform for the northerly four-footed animals in the winter, it is almost always white. (The domestic ferrets, though, may be subject to exemption, and wear the fur of choice; La BellaDonna, she is not entirely certain about this. Or perhaps it is the costume party, and the ferrets are dressed as polar bears.)

Hola to the RCMP! La BellaDonna, she is happy that the white ferrets were in full dress gear, just to please you. La BellaDonna wishes to say that the Mounties, they looked remarkably fine, too, and it was thoughtful of them to wear the red uniforms, which will show up the full dress gear of the white ferrets, hair by hair by hair.

La BellaDonna, she hopes that the Mounties are careful where they aim those ferrets, because La BellaDonna, she suspects that they are fully armed.

By: ripley

ripley — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:22:13 +0000

Wasn’t ms. sheehan not only removed, but also arrested: booked and fingerprinted and held, before being released? As even those who criticize her have said, she wasn’t breaking a law, although she may have been breaking unwritten rules (unwritten, people).

if the full mechanism of law enforcement was used, I do find that disturbing and far more inappropriate than a fashion faux pas.

also, the wife of the senator (who had a pro-war, or at least pro-troops tshirt slogan) was not arrested, only asked to leave. the selective use of the full mechanism of law enforcement to enforce an “unwritten custom” is pretty darn disturbing.

and as far as “activist think their cause is more important than social decorum” comments. Do remember that Ms. Sheehan’s son was killed. She may indeed think that is more important than social decorum. While some may regret what that does to social decorum, I think it is just as poor taste to ignore of be flip about someone’s response to their child’s death.

By: desertwind

desertwind — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:10:11 +0000

In the light of day, the desertwind is embarressed to find the pompous ass side of her character has been revealed by her first post…

Ack!

Politix ‘ill do it to ya.

What I really meant to say: Of course — even agreeing in basic principle with Ma Sheehan — I still cringed when I heard about it because I didn’t think it was a great political move.

HOWEVER, if the ladies had been left alone, they would have been a mere paragraph in a color commentary about the event and not turned into a news story or a post on our dear Manolo’s blog.

As far as I could tell, they were otherwise appropriately dressed.

By: Fausta

Fausta — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:10:05 +0000

I submit that anyone showing up anywhere (other than the gym) in gym clothes should be arrested.

And I didn’t know Canadian ferrets were white!