My initial reaction to this slide show is that is was a piece of pure patronizing bullshit. I find it insulting on its very face. Speaking of face, note that Julia is white, is this some sort of pseudo way of crossing the race barrier? Puhhhleeze. I don’t know about you, but I resent all women being cast as some faceless stereotype; it is disgusting.I want you to imagine Julia as one of the following then image the political outrage that would ensue: if Julia is female and black, hispanic and female, gay and female, male and white, male and black and the list goes on. Why was this particular image used, who is Julia in the mind of the cave dwellers who created Julia; why did they choose to cast a woman as dependent on her family, then graduated to becoming dependent on the government. I don’t personally know any women who would fit this character that has been chosen to represent apparently white, females. As if that is more “acceptable” or would be if the female electorate is as mindless as the Obama administration presumes them to be. Continue reading →