The XX Factor: What women really think.

The Anti-Cougar

Now here’s the team from CBS’s Early Show this morning (clip below), insulting her again: Maggie Rodriguez’s patronizing “you look lovely, Susan” starts the interview—the way you might talk to a small child in clown shoes, and she then repeats the question about how Boyle managed to perform “even though everyone was laughing at you?” Co-host Harry Smith, fearing perhaps that Boyle is too provincial to have any cognitive abilities at all, presses her, “Do you understand that? Do you understand what a big deal this is?”

The reason everyone seems to feel the need to insult Susan Boyle to her face all the time is that she looks like a normal 47-year-old woman, and not like Stacey Anderson from The Cougar. That it’s OK to laugh at her for that, and to assume that she should be laughing along with us, makes me want to cry too.