"Just look at how she's dressed."

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An example of verbal irony that Rusty often uses when he's aware that something uttered from his mouth seems on the surface to be fascist, mean, or just plain wrong. The phrase is intended to shock those listening into actually considering the content of his words on a deeper level.

Origins

The phrase originates from many (forced) discussions in public school relating to sexual harassment. Such discussions and seminars were held with some frequency back during the 1990s in the wake of scandals such as those which arose around Clarence Thomas' appointment to the US Supreme Court. In such classes, the phrase "Just look at how she's dressed," in reference to a woman who had just been sexually harassed or raped was used as a common example of inappropriate behavior. In many respects, "Just look at how she's dressed," calls into being a sense of synecdoche, using a common point shared by nearly all such sexual harassment seminars to stand in conveniently for the whole body of teaching.

Irony comes in because the listener is supposed to understand that Rusty, a committed and moderately vocal feminist, doesn't actually believe the phrase he has just uttered and, by extension, also understands that he doesn't actually advocate capital punishment for jaywalkers, mandatory sterilization of Emacs users, or a vigilante team of parking enforcement armed with baseball bats and permission to maim illegally parked vehicles.