{"id":525,"date":"2004-01-11T00:36:36","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T08:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/11\/schadenfreude\/"},"modified":"2004-01-11T00:36:36","modified_gmt":"2004-01-11T08:36:36","slug":"schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Maureen Dowd has written a column<\/a> about Ret. Gen. and Democratic canidate Wesley Clark’s clothing, or, more exactly, his changes of clothing over time in (it’s assumed) a bid to appeal to a different voting group. While I generally get annoyed by clothing critiques in general, no pun intended, because talking about clothing distracts from things like issues, I have to admit a certain degree of schadenfreude.<\/p>\n

Already some pundits, all of them male that I’ve seen, have started rolling their eyes, but the first thing I thought of when I read the column was a Doonesbury cartoon I read awhile back. One of the female characters, Alex it may have been, had written a newspaper article about one canidate or another coming into town. She described how the entourage (all male) looked in their suits, how they’d lost weight, how they’d picked the perfect accessories for their complexions. I believe it was Mike Doonesbury who ended the strip by saying, “You’re trying to make a point, aren’t you?”<\/p>\n

So while people are rolling their eyes at Ms. Dowd’s column, I can’t help but smirk a little in the same way I always do when males get treated the way that females have for awhile. (An odd sensation to get, my being male and all.) And, yes, I know that this is pretty much a bad thing in the long run, a lose-lose situation, but it still feels good on some level..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Maureen Dowd has written a column about Ret. Gen. and Democratic canidate Wesley Clark’s clothing, or, more exactly, his changes of clothing over time in (it’s assumed) a bid to appeal to a different voting group. While I generally … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}