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Originally Posted by Dottore
You illustrate my point nicely. In the US a permanently pickled, matronly, frump is considered a respectable first lady, and a hot, talented and intelligent woman is considered a skank because she admits to a sexual history (a modest one, but a history nevertheless).
In France people take delight in their new first lady, and think she reflects well on the taste and virility of their head of state. In the US the only thing that matters in a first lady is that she have no apparent sex life.
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And you illustrate my point that the French are largely fixated on the irrelevant.
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