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Alumbrado -> RE: We are a bunch of Sexists and Misogynists, there can be nothing else for it! (5/27/2008 4:04:26 PM)
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ORIGINAL: puella
"History, I suspect, will look back on the past six months as an example of America going through one of its collectively deranged episodes - rather like Prohibition from 1920-33, or McCarthyism some 30 years later. This time it is gloating, unshackled sexism of the ugliest kind. It has been shamelessly peddled by the US media, which - sooner rather than later, I fear - will have to account for their sins. The chief victim has been Senator Hillary Clinton, but the ramifications could be hugely harmful for America and the world".
Read the entire article here: http://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2008/05/obama-clinton-vote-usa-media
You know what....
Perhaps I am a misogynist.
Perhaps I am a sexist pig who never realized that I think all women should be barefoot and pregnant, baking pies in the kitchen and only making noise (positive "oohs" and "ahhs" and perhaps the occasional "spank me, I am a bad girl!") when I deem it appropriate. Perhaps that IS the reason that I, a resident of New York State, am not willing to vote for Hillary Clinton as my preferred choice for the Democratic Presidential nominee.
Oh, wait.... I am a woman... hrumph!
And you know what, as a woman, I am sick to death of the victim mentality and ever present martyrdom syndrome of that camp telling me and all who will hear that that is the reason she is losing... and yes, she is LOSING.
The very fact that she, and so many of her sister-soldier supporters are not only willingly, but eagerly donning the guise of the battered, delicate bloom of a girl being beaten up by mean, dirty boys shows THEIR willingness to legitimize one of the most disgusting and unearned misogynist stereotypes I can think of.
If you want to be a fighter, expect to get swipes back. If you are a girl fighting, do not label those swipes as sexist attacks when you are not winning the fight. To do so is the worst kind of sexist attack, that which self sustains sexism by someone of your own sex.
And for God's sake... please spare me Bill "sure I'll f*ck ya darlin'" Clinton as the guardian of womanly virtues and progression.
I am not voting for Hillary Clinton because in two terms as my elected representative, I have found her to be very very lacking. I do not see those issues resolved, but rather enhanced as campaign continues.
We had a chance for a woman to really blaze some trails for women in politics.... crying "like a girl" every time she does not get what she wants... does very little towards furthering that cause.
Very well put... the people who fall for Clinton's 'Now, I'm no racist, buuuuuut that Obama's one scary ...moozlim' are the same ones who pronounce all debunking of her mudslinging as 'sexist', and when her record of supporting the war, and rich mega-corporations is questioned, they come back with 'she's just being attacked because she's a woman'.
No, she is being attacked because some people don't want to continue the war, and the Patriot Act, and DADT, and obscene subsidies for petro-monopolies and ADM, and the prison-industrial complex, and the erosion of individual rights.
She is being attacked because some people don't like the incessant drum beat linking Obama to every smirking closet racist stereotype imaginable.
She is being attacked because sometimes, a corrupt politician is just a corrupt politican....
If having a woman for president means choosing the worst possible one, what's the point?
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