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Thread #108397   Message #2257632
Posted By: Charley Noble
09-Feb-08 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Primaries
Subject: RE: BS: Primaries
GG-

I really don't think your use of the term "Trophy Wife" is the appropriate term to desribe Michelle Obama. You may not like some of what she says, or how she says it, or you may be attempting sarcasm, but you're way off base.

Here's the working definition from Wikipedia for your edification and that of others concerned:

"A trophy wife is commonly used to describe any wife of an (usually) older man; and who is considered a status symbol.
The term trophy wife was coined by Julie Connelly, a senior editor of Fortune magazine, in a cover story in the issue of Aug. 28, 1989[1] and immediately entered the language. Although it often has a pejorative spin, the term originally meant the second (or third) wife of a corporate titan, who was younger, beautiful and—equally important—accomplished in her own right.[2]
The marriage of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith to oil magnate, J. Howard Marshall, was widely followed by the U.S. media, as an extreme example,[3] as at the time of their marriage: he was 89 years old and she was 26.
Some sources claim the term was coined earlier (for example the Online Etymology Dictionary cites 1984 [4]) but that seems incorrect. The Oxford English Dictionary confirms Aug 28, 1989 as its first use. [5]"

Find another term. Or better, clarify what you find objectionable about her as a person and as a partisan wife.

Charley Noble