The Marilyn Monroe Doctrine

Recently, a poll in Men's Health magazine fraudulently and fallaciously claimed that Jennifer Aniston is the "Hottest Woman of All Time" (!). Uh, right... Let me ask you this: In 60 years, will America (and indeed the entire world) be positively lousy with all manner of sundries and collectibles with Jennifer Aniston's visage gilding them being their selling point and raison d'être? If you answered "No" to this question, then Jennifer Aniston is a popular and attractive woman, and certainly she's very attractive for her age, but she's hardly the "Hottest Woman of All Time". (Ahem.)

You see, there's only one woman who has a global cult dedicated to her sexiness/hotness, and that's Marilyn Monroe. So I'm proposing the term: "The Marilyn Monroe Doctrine" to mean the belief that Marilyn Monroe is the hottest/sexiest woman of all time, at least to Americans. Poll or no poll, I think it's pretty clear what people really think about this, and until Jennifer Aniston has a huge statue of her in a culture-defining pose displayed all over the world (like the one of Marilyn with the dress flying up from The Seven Year Itch), then she's not even in the running for such a title. In fact, I think Aniston's movies will all be ignored and forgotten when people are still buying Marilyn Monroe memorabilia 50, and even 100, years from now. That's not a knock on Aniston, but rather, it's a tribute to the ongoing fascination with the sexiness cult of Marilyn Monroe: truly an American original!

Here's that Men's Health hack journalism poll:

http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/hottest-women-all-time

Here's a shot of that Marilyn Monroe statue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQtPwEG0nQ