Meghan McCain wears a tank top, people go nuts
Meghan McCain shocked the world last week by revealing that she does, in fact, have a chest.
Meghan McCain. To tweet or not to tweet?
And people freaked out about it.
She took the picture of herself at home Wednesday night, and posted it to Twitter with a joke about how “spontaneous” her evening at home was. She could have been out at a bar, dancing on a table. Instead she was at home, reading, in a tank top.
Some have suggested that since she is somewhat in the public eye, that she knew what sort of reaction the picture would spurn, that she did it for the attention. Even if that’s true, does it really matter? It that’s true, then all this talk about it is giving her exactly what she wanted, in which case, joke’s on you, America.
It’s a picture of a cute girl with a lot of cleavage in a tank top reading a book – definitely not something to freak out about.
Originally McCain had this to say about the ordeal via Twitter:
“so I took a fun picture not thinking anything about what I was wearing but apparently anything other than a pantsuit I am a sl*t, this is why I have been considering deleting my twitter account, what once was fun now just seems like a vessel for harassment”
After a few more Twitter posts, she came to this:
“do want to apologize to anyone that was offended by my twitpic, I have clearly made a huge mistake and am sorry 2 those that are offended.”
The fact that she felt the need to apologize is ridiculous. I understand that an apology is an easy way to get people off your back in these types of circumstances, but she shouldn’t have felt the need to. She didn’t show up to a public political event wearing a skin-tight denim cat suit. It really shouldn’t matter what she wears in the privacy of her own home. Yes, she’s in the public eye, and yes, she blogs about politics and voices her opinion on political issues, but she doesn’t put herself forward as some sort of brilliant political mind that has all the answers. She’s a young, college-educated woman who likes to express her opinion and happens to have famous parents.
On Thursday, she wrote a blog for The Daily Beast entitled “Don’t call me a slut,” in which she addresses the “controversy” created by the photo. Many of the commenters talk about what the picture and her less-than-strictly political blog posts on The Daily Beast mean for the Republican Party.
They mean nothing for the Republican Party, nor should they.
One of the main problems I see with politics is that it becomes too far removed from normal, everyday life. Politicians and the people who talk about them in the media become these weird caricatures of actual people. It’s very off-putting.
But I find McCain to be refreshing, even if I often don’t agree with her political opinions. She’s smart and has an interesting take on politics and the way it influences her life as a young woman. She’s not overly intellectual about it, and I find her to be more accessible for a younger generation. She’s a Republican, but she’s willing to consider the other side’s ideas (such as with her support for gay marriage), which is more than we can say for some people.
She’s 25 years old. Her life shouldn’t be all politics, all the time, and she shouldn’t have to live in a tank top-less bubble just because people know who she is.
