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Monday, January 20, 2014

Wendy Davis is a stone-cold bitch, basically

From Emily at the NakedDC
Wendy Davis’s decisions are hers to make, obviously, and all political candidates couch their personal histories in a light most favorable to whoring themselves out to people to whom they can no longer relate. After all, it’s not like Wendy Davis in her current incarnation, sporting thousand-dollar suits and five-hundred-dollar shoes is going to be able to convince anyone in Texas that she understands anything about their lives. But Wendy Davis has built her entire campaign on being a demi-goddess of women’s liberation, a self-made masterpiece of female empowerment looking to take women’s rights to the next level whether she has to do it in a pair of pink sneakers or a Reem Acra pantsuit.

And yet, the missing details and contextual omissions are what ultimately tank her carefully crafted life story. At her core, she’s a woman in power because she used a man’s money and influence to get her there. A little cliche, maybe, but not really very inspiring. Julia Roberts is going to have to play this very differently in the biopic Wendy Davis is no-doubt self-financing to console herself after her inevitable loss.
She seems to be the Texas version of Hillary, not "Fauxcohontas"

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