The Look

“A man who Photoshops his picture is a woman." - Jesse "Holdyer" Watters

Last Wednesday, Bill O'Reilly Lite used his post on Faux News to reference a picture of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries that appeared to have been altered. Altered in such a way as to make it appear that Hakeem was taller, or his hips were thinner, or maybe it wasn't "fixed" in any way and he just happened to be leaning up against a peculiarly warped park bench. 

Please understand that I am not above ridiculing anyone for their vanity. This would include things like comb-overs and fake tans. Or someone who insists that they are six foot three inches tall and weigh two hundred twenty-four pounds when rumors of his booking information in New York City had him shorter and wider than that. Should we be judging a man by the size of his jeans or by the content of his character?

But what makes it all the more galling is that Jesse "Shallow" Watters seems quite comfortable in 2025 ascribing certain affectations to women and not to men. Understandably this comes from a "man" who works for a company that has made a practice of denigrating women, he probably feels he is simply upholding the standard set by his predecessors. Like so many of his male brethren, he has scars that are aggravated by his daily return to the makeup chair before he goes on the air, preforming a job that a whole host of women do without ever questioning outwardly his own masculinity. 

It's more than a little absurd that this denizen of the infotainment business feels so free to assign gender roles to situations that are so obviously native to his own livelihood. Image is everything, and appearing hale and hearty while lambasting others who seek to do the same is hypocritical in the extreme. Rules, it should be remembered, were made to be broken.