Actual question from Politico's Patrick Gavin to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs: “Do you think you look pretty in pink?”

If chiding the White House press secretary for wearing a pink tie seems like the kind of behavior you would expect from an insecure 13 year old rather than a prominent national news organization, you haven't been paying attention. This is just the latest in a long pattern of media figures attempting to feminize promintent male Democrats -- from jokes about John Kerry getting manicures to calling John Edwards the “Breck Girl” to Maureen Dowd's comparison of Barack Obama to Scarlett O'Hara.