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Michelle Obama

The Serious Side of Sarcasm

Submitted by Jillian Sayre on Fri, 2008-02-29 14:18. | | | | | | |

Is sarcastic, rather than bitch, the new black? To build on our discussions of the image of women in politics (see John's post about Michelle Obama's halo and Tim's recent post about Hillary and/as the Devil), I find the discussion of the two women's "edgy" humor to be quite interesting and I think it affects the way that their images are produced and read.

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