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Schwarzenegger Provokes Anger With 'Girlie-Men' Remark
VOA News
19 Jul 2004, 12:59 UTC


Some California legislators are angry with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
after he referred to them as "girlie-men" during a speech on Saturday.
The movie star-turned-politican used the term to describe opposition
Democrats he said who are too weak to stand up to unions and trial lawyers
demanding changes in the governor's state budget proposal.

The phrase comes from an old television comedy routine where two
Schwarzengger-like bodybuilders use it to mock those who lack their
bulging muscles.

Several Democratic lawmakers say the remark was insulting to women and
homosexuals. State Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez said the comment was
"beneath the governor."

But a Schwarzenegger spokesman says the comment was the governor's way of
saying that legislators are "wimps" (weaklings) by giving into special
interest groups.


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(From the AP report)

Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat, said that while he wasn't upset
by the remark, his 13-year-old daughter was.

"She's a young girl who knows the governor and really likes him a lot and
didn't find the term to be a positive term, and finds it to be
derogatory," Nunez said. "It was no question a very, very insensitive
comment to make. I personally am not intimidated or threatened by it, but
I think it really is beneath Gov. Schwarzenegger."


(Yeah, you gotta feel secure with a having a male government leader using
a 13 year old girl as a model for his behavior)