I think my feelings for Stephen Colbert just graduated from "Big Fat Crush" to "True Love."

Any guy who uses a big public megaphone like his to ruthlessly mock the media for its demeaning, sexist coverage of women political leaders is okay by me.

Speaking of TV anchormen and sexism, does anyone want to comment about Dan Rather saying that Katie Couric is "tarting up" the news? (I'm not fond of Katie Couric, but I still think this was inappropriate.)

I was very impressed that he talked about the coverage of what Clinton or Pelosi are wearing at any given time. Colbert makes me melt. I also thought it was very cool that he had Josh Wolfe and Tommy Chong on his show last night. Rad.

Colbert and Jon Stewart are both saterical clarions in this right-wing media milieu. Props to him.

media with integrity

media with integrity

Love it! and see how threatening a woman's surname is to the patriarchy! I don't think what bothers the right wing media is Hillary's assumption of the Clinton name. Rather it's the fact that she did not automatically assume it upon her marriage and that later she insisted on Rodman Clinton. Now that she's just Hillary Clinton, they need to reflame the debate over her bitchy, feminist assertion of her identity.

*Drools* Oh, Stephen Colbert, my true love. I heard that he's writing a new book about the de-ballification of America. He says that in the future, even women will have balls & they will be called "Thatchers."
Actually, I think that Dan Rather said that CBS was trying to tart up the news with Katie Couric. I don't like his choice of words, but I agree with the sentiment--from what I've seen of Katie's newscasts, it's very New Lite (TM)-For Women.

That last comment seemed to have a lot of bite to it. I didn't know whether to applaud ('cause he was right on the money) or worry that he might get too serious on the show. What makes it great is how he mocks the absurdity in the government, society, and the media.

BTW, Jessica - you absolutely rocked on the show.

On Rather's comment on Couric and CBS News "tarting" up the broadcast. I looked up a definition on dictionary.com.
TART
1. A prostitute.
2. A woman considered to be sexually promiscuous.

I just wanted to say that Jessica was awesome on the show!

....how about going on the show The Hour? The word needs to get out up here in Canada about how important Full Frontal Feminism is?

God, my love for Colbert just keeps growing and growing. I'd like a threesome with him and Jon Stewart. Then we'd have a smoke and ruthlessly mock Rethuglicans.

Colbert-Stewart sandwich...Yum *Drools* You know, SarahMC, I think you just found the answer to the previous post's issue of women-friendly porn. Word.

Love it. Thanks for posting. Sometimes satire says it better.

You may be right, Jacqueline!

Nothing does it for me like a feminist, witty, bespectacled man of average height and weight. *YUM*

Nothing does it for me like a feminist, witty, bespectacled man of average height and weight.
Lollerskates! I think it was the "bespectacled man of average height" thing that got me. That's so Mike Nelson.

I believe the appropriate phrase in my case is man-crush.

Geniuses, both of them.

This was AWESOME!!! It is a sad sad time we live in when I get most of my news on comedy central and can keep up w/ the world. I LOVE the Colbert Report! Bravo on surnames!!!

I am living in Hawaii, but from Michigan. A few years back we elected our first woman govenor, and believe it if you will, the front page of the Detroit Free Press that covered the inaugaration was all about what madame govenor WORE!!! Her beautiful ballgown, who made it and how her hair looked! I don't recall any previous govenor's choice of attire being covered. Maybe it's just me...who knows!
Thanx again!

Wow, the awesomeness!

I was amazed at the seriousness at the end too. This is something that PISSES him OFF. Which I love :D

So you can legally change your name to Englebert Dinkle-Dank-The-Iraq-War-is-Silly, but keeping your own surname after marriage is controversial?

Love, love, love Stephen Colbert.

Maybe I'll change my last name to Colbert. Ha.

as usual, colbert is spot-on. ^5 steven!
although a news cast is unlikely to make me wanna have sex with him, ladies. can you imagine if he read these comments and decided to discuss them on-air? damn, that'd be funny.

I personally don't find Colbert attractive. However, my mother who is closer to his age has a crush on him. I thought that clip was genius. I also agree John Stewart is hot. I don't know if any of you ladies are young enough to be on facebook, but there is already a Colbert-Stewart sandwich group on there.

That being said, I don't feel too comfortable applauding their work by saying it makes me want to have sex with either one of them. Seems to me not everyone would prefer there work to be complimented that way, especially a lot of women. I think you can say someone does brilliant work, or say that you think they're hot. But describing your fantasies for consumption of the general public or the object of affection might be going too far in the politeness zone. I mean, Colbert is married -it might be uncomfortable for his wife if he talked about comments like that (reference to last posts). Know what I mean?

I saw Nina's comment about the sex-Colbert talk being impolite and I had this whole nice explanation written out about the use of hyperbole to make a point and whatever. Then I thought, fuck it, this is feminsiting! Isn't the point here not to have live up to the patriarchal expectations of how a woman should act, look and SPEAK? The logo is a mud- flap girl flipping off the patriarchy, for goodness sakes. I might be feeding a troll ("don't know if any of you ladies are young enough"!? WTF?!) but keep your etiquette off of my rhetoric.

I saw Nina's comment about the sex-Colbert talk being impolite and I had this whole nice explanation written out about the use of hyperbole to make a point and whatever. Then I thought, fuck it, this is feminsiting! Isn't the point here not to have to live up to the patriarchal expectations of how a woman should act, look and SPEAK? The logo is a mud- flap girl flipping off the patriarchy, for goodness sakes. I might be feeding a troll ("don't know if any of you ladies are young enough"!? WTF?!) but keep your etiquette off of my rhetoric.

I think Nina's comment, at least as I understood it, was meant to be that we don't appreciate it when women who are successful or public personalities are then sexualized unnecessarily (like the track athlete a few weeks back), so we should keep an eye out for how we do the same thing to public figures. Obviously, men are encouraged to do that, to critique a female public figure in sexual terms, but that doesn't mean that we should do the same about men.

I don't necessarily mean that no one should talk about Colbert fantasies; I just wanted to point out that Nina's post seemed less about etiquette and more about not falling in those same traps.

I saw Nina's post in the same way honkifyoulike did--regardless of the fact that our affection for their politics might actually make these men more sexually attractive to us, at least some of us would be up in arms if liberal men were posting about a Clinton-Pelosi sandwich and we should at least be aware of the parallels.

That said, I think that the comments here were a) way less graphic, b) much more focused on personality than looks, and c) don't carry the same level of threat/commodification of bodies connotations that most comments men make about women do. And c) has everything to do with the power structures in our society and who is doing the talking.

Assuming all parties were willing producers, I might approve that porn.

Jacqueline [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 14, 2007 01:46 PM

...but that doesn't mean that we should do the same about men.

I don't necessarily mean that no one should talk about Colbert fantasies; ...more about not falling in those same traps.

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Plus it just gets old when every time there are comments on an Internet post about Colbert (youtube, fark, other blogs, wherever), you have to scroll past all the "god I love him"s that don't bother to acknowledge what he's actually said.
Male posters do the same thing with Colbert and Stewart, but in a different way. "Colbert for President! W00t!" etcetera. Why bother.

This is probably going to seem out of left fielf after all the Colbert-love comments. While I also love Colbert, I wanted to comment about the root of this post which seems to be a recurring sentiment on Feministing. What's up with the hate on marriage?

I'm a feminist and I'm married. I don't think those things are mutually exclusive. And I don't think that just because you are married you are automatically participating in a patriarchal, sexist or otherwise oppressive system.

The only way marriage is going to change into something better is if real feminists are willing to get in there and kick out the crap. "Marriage" doesn't automatically = bad. (Although I will grant you that the discrimination against same-sex couples is horrible.)