Who is Your Favorite Kennedy? Women Only

Jayne

Jackie, natch. She had some life.

OP. Is your question to be answered by women only, or do you want to know which female Kennedy member we most prefer?

I bet you are a lot of fun at parties, R3.

Ethel picks her nose!

My head goes with Eunice, who was the force for most good, but my heart belongs to Jackie.

Pat Nixon

Ted Kennedy when he dressed up as Bella Abzug at his 1972 office Christmas party.

Joan, love her. Gorgeous, sophisticated in her heyday.

There are some days when I really envy the lobotomized one and what must have been something of a safe and calm life.

Ethel - I love her, I think she's completely iconic.

Mimi. Shes so funny!

Amazing to think that Joan and Ethel are still here, 63 years after that magical photo.

Rosemary!

Probably Caroline since she's staunchly pro-choice. I like Joan too, staunchly alcoholic.

Rose

Boozy train wreck Joan.

Ted’s first wife was good-looking.

Ethel is my least favorite, popping out so many children. Who can really pay attention to that many. It’s not like they needed farm hands.

Caroline.

…….

Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy because she had high quality cocaine on her at all times.

Dead Kennedys

Jackie: whore on the make, both of her husband's wealth came from sketchy sources. (Onassis was a Nazi collaborator, Jackie didn't give a shit).

Rose: large & pungent beaver.

My favorite Kennedy: Scarlett O'Hara Kennedy Butler.

Another vote for Rosemary, may she rest in peace and victory.

JFK jr. strictly for the looks.

The one married to Ted. She had life!

Rosemary. She was lobotomized by her father for having the same sexual inclinations as all the men in the family and then institutionalized.

It certainly isn’t Ethel. Horrible mother, racist, snobby, abusive, just yuck.

Despite that, I like Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, her daughter.

Does the maid who got it in with Ahnold count? She’s my pick

Rosemary is extra fascinating to me because she was the most beautiful, in addition to all the tragedy. But Kick takes the cake, lots of action packed into her short life. Everyone loved her. She was an independent spirit, maybe the only Kennedy to defy Rose and do as she pleased when she married Andrew Cavendish.

R30. William Cavendish.

The 23 aborted Kennedy babies that I left in trash cans across the US and Mexico

Jackie was not a Kennedy woman, duh.

Another vote for Joan, who was a hot mess in DC before it was fashionable to be a hot mess in DC. Plus, no matter how addled she may have been at that point, you know she got a chuckle out of the fact that she outlived Ted.

I'd also add Caroline. She generally stays quiet, uses her power and influence wisely, continues to champion her father's causes & I think she's a very good representative of the US abroad. She (appears at least) to be admired & respect, when god knows the US can use all the credibility it can get. Her son seems silly, but considering the fishbowl he grew up in & the shadow of doomed Uncle John, he could be much worse. So she's clearly a good mom too

Kathleen seemed very glamorous, but one of those headstrong types that won't listen to good advice and then ends up in ashes (or at the bottom of the ocean)

R29 great pick, especially since she would dress up in Maria’s clothes before Arnold and her would forever defile the marital bed

Actual Kennedy: Pat.

In-law Kennedy: Joan. S

Kick

Senator John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana

Kennedy fried chicken.