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[Sorceress]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

The fact that the package is more important to people than the content really irks me.

Yes, and it also bothers me that this type of package has so much appeal.

"Gidget goes to Washington."

"She is playing into a cultural stereotype," says Drew Westen, a psychiatry professor at Emory University who also works as a Democratic consultant and wrote "The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation." And the stereotype? Westen cites Marlo Thomas in "That Girl," Mary Tyler Moore in the "The Dick Van Dyke Show," Sally Field in "The Flying Nun" -- a model of perky femininity that "was really salient in the early '60s before the sexual revolution and the cultural revolution took hold."

So she gets away with saying whatever she wants because either: a) people are apparently distracted by the "cuteness" and don't listen to what she is saying, or b) people apparently need a woman's authority to be cloaked in cuteness in order to not be threatened by her?

I just don't get it.