Ah, he’s having that “Raping Lady Liberty” fantasy again. Inside thoughts, Ted. Insight thoughts.
Yeah, just who I want to have in charge of nuclear weapons…
Thinking of England?
Back in my day we walked 10 miles uphill to be figuratively assaulted, and it was against either on a muddy alley or cold hard marble!
Kids these days with their mats. No wonder this country is going downhill!!
In case that’s genuine confusion, he used a wrestling metaphor that sounds odd because the metaphorical wrestler is female.
Damn republicans, always revealing more than they intend when speaking contemporaneously. I feel almost sad that the Donald put a contested convention a step further out of reach of Cruz yesterday - there would be so much more of this to look forward to!
No confusion about his “message.”
I just can’t fathom how he manages to get even more repugnant with each passing week…
And here I’d pictured Ted as more of a America-blindfolded-and-on-all-fours-with-her-dirty-pillows-swaddled-in-a-flag sort of guy.
It’s a pretty well-established metaphor, so I can’t see any repugnance apart from in our own minds (I mean, women have sex, they don’t wrestle or fight back, right?)
I know you. You may have been knocked down, but America’s always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat and the crowd has given the final count. It is time for us as a nation to get up, to shake it off and be who we were destined to be. Don’t let anyone try to convince you otherwise.
I would think back against the wall is a better metaphor for the point he was trying to make.
Um… that really depends upon each individual woman.
Sticking strictly within the realm of mutually consensual sex; there’s a fetish that focuses on both resistance and submission.
(No judgments.)
And just to clarify, I personally find people like Cruz & Trump repugnant, regardless to whatever new stupidity they may let leak out of their gaping maws…
I’ve known a few scary wrestlers who were women, even some young girls.
But come on, it’s much more fun to pretend we have no idea what Cruz meant, and then pretend to be afraid, right? It’s lame to just say it sounded wrong.
Far more revealing–and disturbing–is how Ted Cruz associates America with a vulnerable, assaulted woman.
The MVP of my high school wrestling team was female, and won nearly every match she was in. Some of them, admittedly, because guys would refuse to wrestle her. But she could legit kick every guy’s ass easily, and did so.
Yeah, then there’s that.
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Dunno. Correct me if I’m wrong, but bypassing the whole “is this about sex, sexual assault” and assuming is about wrestling…
… when does this idiot think the US has been “lying down with her back on the mat”? When in the last, say, 100 years was that, exactly?
I get the sentiment, but Eugene McCarthy said it better:
“America can choke on a gnat, but she can swallows tigers whole.”
I think his one is perfectly fine, as it adds the element that the rest of the world is acting like the downfall of the US has already happened. But there are plenty of similar sporting or fighting analogies that you could use - on the back foot etc.
The association with sex (that wouldn’t have been there if America had been metaphorically male) is our own - Ted Cruz didn’t mention it. I agree that there is plenty of repugnant stuff that Cruz and Trump say, but this is just a “that’s what she said” joke - taking a metaphor of America as a strong and underestimated wrestler in a temporarily vulnerable position and claiming that it’s about sex because of the female pronouns.
Why assume that a woman in a wrestling ring is being assaulted? I know I’m pushing the point, but making a big deal about this statement presumes that we can’t imagine a woman holding her own in the wrestling ring - it must be about something else.
The phrasing is odd though, definitely.
