… Lee Siegel wrote for Men’s Journal explaining to liberal men what they were missing about “the blondes of Fox News.” He explained how fun it was to watch them, as “Fox women are studies in passive-aggressive revolt against their ideological masters.” These “masters” are white men who the “Fox women” secretly believe are “fools.” His article was headlined, “The Right, Hot, and Bothered Blondes of Fox News: One man’s guilty obsession with Megyn Kelly and the blondes of Fox News.” He explained his liberal brethren needed to appreciate that, “Most blonde anchors on Fox are dyed blondes,” and a woman who dyes her hair blonde has “on some level, subordinated her will to male desire.” But there’s more. The Fox News blonde “is also dangerous. She has another identity concealed by the one she submissively shares with you. Lurking within every Fox blonde is a CNN brunette.” He closed with, “Fox blondes hold out the promise of rational intelligence and sexual gratification—two precious and tragically incompatible human qualities. Of all the shameless lies Fox tells, that beautiful illusion may be the most potent.”
As an editor, I would have flagged this, and it probably would not have seen the light of print. That's because I was once regarded by some of my colleagues as a kind of canary in the coal mine when it came to matters of insensitivity. As one of them said in the newsroom one day, "Christ, if Frank thinks it insensitive, get it the hell out of the paper." If I were a Fox blonde and I ran into Lee Siegel, I'd jack his jaw.
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