Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Civility Demands That We Not Sanction Criticism of Our Superintendent's "Whale-sized Thighs White as Chalk"


Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Wrangling with the Board of Sarasota County":

"Elia showed up at a golf tournament bloated big as a whale and showing off big thighs as white as chalk.
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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 4:23 PM


Ms. Elia:
The above message popped up on my blog Casting-room Couch.


Some catty detractor of your soaring career has sought to diminish it by reporting that you "showed up at a golf tournament ... showing big thighs as white as chalk."

I know how obsessed you are with image. I think you would do better to be obsessed with your penchant for making up charges against teachers whom you want to fire by filing manufactured charges against these hapless educators with the Professional Standards Abughoraib Torture Emporium.

My best advice is to ignore the "whale" allusion; you are not as big as a whale: that is vicious hyperbole. I will take a lie-detector test on this issue.

You may be, however, as big as were Paleolithic hippopotami from the Pleistocene Era. You will be pleased to know that those ancient hippopotami were smaller than the present specimens of the species.

We must take our comfort where we find it.

And as for the "big thighs as white as chalk," that's easily dealt with: Get some of that tanning stuff and slather it on your thighs morning and evening for a fortnight before you plan to appear at a golf tournament in shorts.

Better yet: don't wear shorts in public places. Hillary Clinton has solved the problem of her water-hydrant-sized ankles by resorting to pants suits. I offer this observation as one who has descended from a family with great legs on both the x- and y- chromosome side. I do not gloat over this circumstance: I had nothing to do with it and take no credit for the behavior of my own double helix that passed the great legs down to me.

Until we women can batter down the appearance issue that afflicts womankind, I am sorry to report that we must contend with the beauty-standards slanders until we can bash them. A man with gigantic physical detractions from male beauty hears nobody say of him, "Did you see Joe Blubberbody Sixpack? How dare he be seen in public with a gut that sags past his arthritically deformed knees?"

With my deepest condolences,

Lee Drury De Cesare

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That Elia woman needs to hide in a cave. Nature did not bless her.