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South Park updated their profile photo in response to Kristi Noem calling them "sexist" for criticizing her appearance.
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Kristi Noem: “It never ends, but it’s so lazy, to make fun of women and how they look. Only the liberals and the extremists do that. If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that. But clearly they can’t. They pick something petty like that."
Originally Posted By u/kenistod At 2025-08-08 03:49:56 PM | Source
Maybe we're all too sensitive? Just spit balling here, maybe it's okay to criticize this aspect of Kristy Noam's behavior. It would not be okay to criticize someone who isn't a public figure like her for "this behavior" but she is a public figure and an extremist one.
Treating her the same as other people who get a lot of non-restorative plastic surgery isn't right because she isn't like them. She's a deeply racist public figure who's needlessly killed multiple animals who's also have obviously had a lot of cosmetic surgery. She doesn't represent everyone who's had plastic surgery.
No, her being extremist doesn't make it ok to be sexist towards her. Like you should be able to criticise Caitlyn Jenner without being transphobic. Or Milo Yiannopoulos without being homophobic.
But making fun of her getting such plastic surgery targets everyone who gets them. Just like making fun of someone for being fat targets every fat person, like calling someone gay as an insults is insulting towards every gay person. I'd argue her being a nazi makes it even less ok since of all the things you could be focusing on you're focusing on something that she fully in her right to do. It makes everything else you say easily dismissable and opens you up to accusation of sexism, because it is sexist to shame and try to humiliate a woman because of how she presents herself in public.
Just like how she is now brushing past all the other criticism south park has of her and focuses on the sexist aspect of her portrayal.