re: #886 Buck

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.

Maybe John McCain doesn’t want the war hero label because it might be a bit demeaning to the phrase “war hero”

I don’t want to say he didn’t do a brave thing by signing up for service, but I’m pretty sure John McCain was no Simo Hayha, Alivn York, or Audie Murphy (a man so badass he had to remove certain parts of his real life from the Hollywood movie about him for fear that the audience would find them too unrealistic).

All I know about John McCain’s military service was getting shot down and being captured spending the rest of the year in a POW camp. I don’t know that he received any truly impressive medals and I stand open to correction?

Does fighting in a war make you automatically a war hero?