Michelle Obama Watch

Even decent black people are still not respected in this country, what else is new? We’ve been saying that for years, nobody believed it, till now.

This is totally disgusting. I am a South African female and this would not be tolerated well here…it’s bloody shameful.

Although we recognize and honor our country’s First Amendment rights, how about honoring decorum and showing respect for our country’s Commander in Chief and his wife, our First Lady?

MIKE: To debase our First Lady to one of your grubby, wretched sexual fantasies is despicable.

We can question all day whether or not this article was “appropriate.” However, boundary crossing aside, I do not think that it was intended to be disrespectful. It appears that the author is alluding to the fact that The First Couple is deeply in love with and visibly attracted to one another. This is not something that we’ve seen in past Presidents and First Ladies. His approach was crass, yes. But I don’t read the intent in the same way that it seems many of you do.

i don’t doubt that the author meant it as a positive thing but i can’t help but be annoyed that people feel entitled enough about the relationship of two people they don’t know at all to make the kinds of crass comments that people have been making about them, it’s not just this piece. i just can’t help but feel that part of this comfort with talking about them in this way stems from stereotypes that exist about black people and sexuality, and i’m annoyed by what i consider to be a base level of disrespect that people seem to treat them with, relative to past couples in their position.

This post is most certainly not appropriate for ANY lady, yet alone the First Lady of the United States

This is disgusting, and most demeaning, and lewd…there must be respect for her role in the country, and I usually like Huff Post, but this is not appropiate

If we all wrote to Huff Post, and let our voices be heard, they will be forced to take it down, and think twice in the future, before putting such garbage up!

I agree with Gaelle. While working in corporate, the men would say things that were a little things that were inappropriate to the women (black and white). When they see that you laughed but not in a way where you were enjoying it, they would not go there with you again. White women were (sometimes) a little more accepting and joined in. Some were offended. Black women ALWAYS had attitudes. Instead of brushing it off and the guys would see that you were not down…the black women would create drama behind it. So that would be where the friction started. The reactions of black women would make the atmosphere uncomfortable. I dont like to joked with regarding my sexuality as a black woman but I chose my battles or get out. There are things that Michelle will be subject to like everyone else in her position. My God! If they cant take it they should not be in the white house. There are a lot worse things that people can say about them besides they probably have good sex! They called Bush’s wife (41) ugly. They called Hillary ugly. They dont just say things about Michelle and Barack. They say things about everybody!

Folks there is no indication that the First lady or the President read this or any other blog including Hipster Racist Headquarters aka The Huffington Post.

This blog isn’t about the President’s “Feelings. This Blog isn’t about the First Lady’s “Feelings.” This blog is about the depiction of Black women, one Black woman in particular, in popular culture. its a media literacy/critical analysis blog /fan club.

Therefore YOU might not think its a big deal, but that’s why the blog exists for people, and there were several, to have a voice about how they think this Black woman in particular is being treated in the media.

No one can cite me a single example where so many people have involved themselves in the goings on in a Presidential boudoir. So the question is WHY is it that so many people feel comfortable publicly fantasizing about the private affairs of the President and his wife? Could it have anything to do with the oversexualization of both Black men and women throughout history?

I don’t know, but this is a place where people can talk about that. If you don’t like to talk about these minute details related to the media’s depiction of the First Lady of the united States then bounce! hit the bricks! Throw up the deuce! Don’t come to a blog called Michelle Obama Watch and then complain because we’re watching!

Might I also add that Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin have ENTIRE BLOGGING NETWORKS in their defense. If you exclude the fashion blogs, I am only aware of a half a dozen Michelle Obama blogs.

For the record I clowned people who dogged out Sarah Palin AND Hillary Clinton because moral authority and consistency matters.

Thanks, admin. ^5 on keepin’ it sista!

Kelly, because women were silent when harrassed, and the harrassment ended, that made the situation okay? “Hey, let’s let the immoral behavior go, even participate in the oppression, and everything will be okay, because we’ll appease the white men.”

Black women didn’t “create” the problem. The inappropriate men were the problem, but with “allies” like you describe, who would throw offended women, regardless of color, under the “can we all get along, people? Please?” bus, I can see where someone would ill-perceive drama. Did women get the vote by being nice and going along with the fellas?

I don’t know if you’re Black, I don’t know if you’re a woman, but I am both, and I have a personal commitment to fighting defamation against women of color, so this was a big deal for me.

@SJP Relax, Relate, Release! Whoo SAAA! Walk away from the light.

It just kills me when people come to a blog called “Michelle Obama Watch” and say we’re throwing a “fit” or are engulfed with “anger” or “need to calm down.” Or talk to the contributors as if they are small children who just don’t understand. As if people covering Michelle Obama daily for well over 8 months “don’t understand the way things are in the real world.” Whatever!

The blog is doing what it is supposed to do, exposing people who choose to turn a blind eye to the obvious and giving people an opportunity to respond.

Oh give me a break. You people sound like folks who look for something to complain and be offended about no matter what. If a little white girl was labeled as “sassy” as they often are you would not blink. Who gives a crap if someone made a joke about the Obama’s sex life? If it was said about the Bush’s you wouldnt care.

@ Danielle..

Uh, people on MICHELLE OBAMA WATCH care about what’s being said about Michelle Obama and obviously you do too since you clicked on a thread on MICHELLE OBAMA WATCH. If you felt the need to come to Bush’s defense then maybe you should start GEORGE BUSH WATCH or LAURA BUSH WATCH.

I think that people who are against michelle or who say things bashing her because she is a strong black woman, to me just says ignorance. And possibly they just are not really listening to her speeches. She is intelligent enough to speak on the issues she is passionate about, and i believe people should respect that.

Sigh…..

Lorraine.

I think that for those of us blessed with eyes to see, it is plain, bleedin’ obvious that the First Couple makes for a sexy couple. Not too many people would argue with a description of them as “mutually supportive, smart, sexy, partners”. I’d more than happily go along with that since it describes them, to an absolute T.

However, this isn’t what is being objected to, and well you know it. There is a world of difference between this, and someone thinking it reasonable to opine that the First Lady is FLIF.

(I don’t know. Maybe I didn’t get the memo, but perhaps for 2009, filth is in, crudity is the way to go and we should all be shopping for one of those T-shirts that SJP refers to in her post at Uncouth R Us….)

You are of course free to think that I and others of shared/similar opinions are “overreacting”, and I, and perhaps those others of shared/similar opinions may choose to beg to differ. And, I do beg to differ with you. I do….

I am not a regular reader of HP, I just happenstanced on the article. I must say that this is the most irresponsible reporting / writing I’ve seen in a while. For it to be allowed is even worse. People who write this way generally are hiding an illness or medication that make them do and say things. They can’t help it, there are no meds that cure ignorance.