re: #853 marjoriemoon

lol Marilyn Monroe never would have said such a thing in her wildest dreams!

Maybe she thought of her self as an “Object”? Or maybe she admitted that others did…

“That’s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather it be sex than some of the things we’ve got symbols of… I just hate to be a thing.”
Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40

“I’m a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they’ve made of me — and that I’ve made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman’s and I can’t live up to it.”
Statement c. 1962, as quoted in Marilyn (1992) by Peter Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham, Ch. 27

It was just an example. McCain also doesn’t like to use the War Hero label… Even though many use it for him. He serves his country proudly.