On May 29, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Schwarzenegger picked it up from the Hans & Franz skit on SNL. So yes, they were satirizing Schwarzenegger by throwing around the term "girly-man," and then Schwarzenegger appropriated it and started actually using the term himself, apparently without a trace of irony or self-consciousness.
Oh no, it was entirely self-conscious. From your characterization of the comment, which rings very false, I can only guess that you heard about this second-hand after all the spinning and counterspinning.
It was summer of 2004 and the Governor was trying to pass his budget which was stalled in the state legislature. In a high-profile speech he called the legislators "girlie-men" for not getting the job done. In the same speech he called upon the voters to be "the Terminators" in November. Both phrases were used pointedly (and somewhat unnaturally), and it was clearly a deliberate and premeditated attempt to draw media attention to the speech.
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