sexism
October 29, 2008
- Why is Ms. Palin being made out to be a bimbo when everyone else is in the process of selling themselves as well? Had I been a US citizen it is most certain that I would not vote Republican, but I find the treatment given out to Sarah quite distasteful. How many American feminists have raised their voices against the look-alike strippers at a gentleman’s club in Las Vegas who were judged based ...
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October 10, 2008
- It’s not the freakish, shrill non-answers she gives in the few not-quite interviews by not even close to journalists. It’s not the hard core fundamentalism, sugar-coated to create an illusion that she supported her unmarried teenage daughter’s “choice” to carry her fetus to term, when she would have insisted on it regardless -- even if the father was her husband, who had raped her. ...
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September 18, 2008
- I’ve been feeling a little more empathic over the past few weeks. Contemplating inequity has me thinking about the other side of that coin: privilege. It’s easy for me to talk about racism or sexism, directly feeling the injustice that comes with being a “double minority,” but how willing am I to engage in discussion about the privileges I have as a US citizen? “This is the ...
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September 13, 2008
- Are people really harsh on women writers because they are women? I have been in denial about it, hoping it was not the complete truth.I can recount tens of instances where being a woman seemed to be my only identity as a professional.*The editor who commented on the colour of my nail varnish.*The male colleague who wondered why I worked at all considering I had a keen sense of couture aesthetics ...
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June 13, 2008
- I like to think I am the kind of person who pays attention, who reads and listens to a variety of media.... who doesn't take for granted the daily newsreaders thirty second soundbites of information. But, apparently, even as diligent as I thought I was, I missed something big. Some really awful, really egregious, really unnecessary and totally retro comments made about Hillary Clinton ...
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February 4, 2008
- It's almost Super Tuesday, and my email inbox is flooded with messages proclaiming that to vote for Obama is to oppress women. Most of them are detailed accounts of discrimination against women from time immemorial, coupled with the suggestion that any criticism of Clinton is internalized sexism.What is most remarkable to me is that it seems never to have occurred to these writers that precisely ...
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