the "softening of Michelle Obama"

Seriously, what's with all this talk of "softening" Michelle Obama's image? She's not Ernest Fucking Hemmingway.

Reality check: she's an intelligent, successful, and accomplished black woman, and a lot of people fear, and probably even loathe, that fact. But the truth is that women like that have become an archetype, and that particular caricature has been demonized time and again on reality shows. It's trash. So she went to an Ivy League school, became a lawyer, and is probably going to be the first lady. Oh yeah, and as George Carlin would put it, she "happens to be black." If all that's a reason to hate her, then guess what? She doesn't seem to be the one with the problem after all.

Maybe she is hard. That means she's tough, and in order to get the shit done like she has, you gotta be tough. So fuck 'em.