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A kicker was booted from a high-school football team in Georgia because of her gender.
A Pakistani senator defends the fact that women were buried alive in his district as "tribal custom."
Monica Roberts has video interviews with Isis, the first trans contestant on Top Model.
MzBitca has a plea: leave Amy Winehouse alone!
A clearly innovative and forward-thinking family counselor goes on Oprah to tell women it's their fault if their husbands cheat.
Broadsheet discusses a new blog, called What to Expect When You're Aborting.
Katie Couric on how her nightly news hosting gig has been difficult.
In These Times on why soldiers rape. And Col. Ann Wright has another piece on the possible cover-ups related to two female soldiers' suicides.
via Pam, I see that Bill O'Reilly and Marc Rudov (a Frank TJ Mackey type whose admonition to men is, "YOU Are Tolerating Her Nonsense!") had a meaningful, nuanced chat about the "downside" of female leadership:
O’REILLY: Tonight, we begin a brand new segment called, “He Said, She Said,� where we’ll deal with issues from a gender-based point of view. The segment will run every Friday, but we wanted to debut it tonight with a very provocative question: What is the downside of having a woman become president of the United States?…RUDOV: You mean besides the PMS and the mood swings, right?
O’REILLY: But guys have mood swings, Marc. And you know --
RUDOV: Right.
O’REILLY: -- they have other control issues, as we just heard with Governor Spitzer and we saw with various presidents. So come on now, let’s be fair.
RUDOV: Well, you know, I’m joking. Of course, the main problem I have is if a woman has a female agenda. If she doesn’t have a female agenda, if she just wants to be an executive for all the people, then all I care about is if she’s qualified. And I have no qualms about having a female president.
But if we take Hillary Clinton, she specifically does have a female agenda.
Pam wonders if this is sorta like the Homosexual Agenda conservatives are always so worried about? Or maybe Rudov thinks the "female agenda" is just the search for some good PMS remedies.
Video below the jump.
More editions of Hillary Sexism Watch here.
If you don't have time to watch the video or read the transcript of Bill Maher's bit about Clinton, the point seems to be "bitches are crazy with all their moods."
Please note my complete lack of surprise that Bill Maher is being a jerk. Apparently having different tones over the course of a few weeks is the same as having different personalities. Now, I can understand his confusion, since Maher can only manage to be a smug asshole.
It would be really helpful to me if misogynists could all get on the same page about why they hate Hillary Clinton. Is she cold or a hysterical woman? Can we get some consistency here?
Thanks to a tip by reader Shannon, we find that there's a Facebook group titled, "Hillary Clinton: Stop Running for President and Make Me a Sandwich." And it has nearly 40,000 members.
There are tons others like it, but this one is especially obnoxious It's description says the group is "Dedicated to keeping Hillary Clinton out of the Oval Office and in the kitchen." They're also selling t -shirts for their "cause."
But the most upsetting part of this was the large number of women who are members - just glancing at it, I would guess that at least twenty percent of members are women. Depressing.
Barack Obama, at a news conference on Friday in Milwaukee:
"I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she's feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal."
I'm with Lauren in finding this sexist. It's about word choice: He could have just as easily said, "periodically when her poll numbers look bad." But instead he says she does so when she's "feeling down." 'Cause you know how the ladies are. They're always doing things based on their emotions. Not because they're trying to, say, get ahead in the workplace or win an election or anything.
Here it is on video:
I like what DnA (an Obama supporter) had to say about this comment:
On the one hand, he seems to be suggesting that Clinton is engaging in what Obama refers to as "the same old Washington Politics".But on the other hand, it's hard for me not to read the subtext of this statement as "if you elect this woman, she's going to act crazy every time she's on the rag. You know how chicks are." What does "feeling down" have to do with it? The two of them are competing for votes, so she's launching attack ads. Why the fucking psychotherapy?
Before everyone gets all huffy about how this is the same thing as the Clintons trying to peg Obama as a scary Negro in the mold of Al Sharpton, it isn't. It's reprehensible and disappointing, but it's not clear to me that it's deliberate.
Clearly this isn't Chris Matthews-level shit or anything. All sexist comments are not created equal, and pointing out that Obama's comment comes from a place of male privilege does not mean I'm saying it's as bad as him holding up an "Iron My Shirt" sign or something. But it's pretty obvious to me that "when she's feeling down" was a sexist way of characterizing the situation. As Lauren says, "If you’ve never been told you are “ruled by your emotions� in a professional capacity, you probably wouldn’t get it either."
Time magazine's Mark Halperin recently said, in an interview for a Sirius satellite radio show,
And I can tell you, [John Edwards is] really skeptical of her ability to be the kind of president he wants. But, he kinda thinks Obama is..he thinks Obama is kind of a pussy. He has real questions about Obama's toughness, his readiness for the office.
Halperin has since apologized for his oh-so-creative, junior-high-level insult. He really used "pussy" in the classic derogatory sense: men trying to show they're more masculine by using derogatory feminine terms to describe other men. So it's offensive not only to women (way to use a term for our anatomy as an insult! awesome!) but also to men (mocking them for not conforming to male stereotypes). The fact that he was paraphrasing Edwards when he said this is interesting, as Edwards has taken more than his share of gender-related abuse, mostly from right-wingers.
Unlike bitch or cunt (which feminists have made great strides toward reappropriating), I think "pussy" is pretty rarely used in a subversive sense. If I had to generalize, I'd say it still resides almost exclusively in the vocabularies of misogynists and dudes attempting to assert their masculinity.
On a note related to Hillary Sexism Watch: Wanna bet that many of the people calling Clinton a cunt or a bitch have also referred to Obama and Edwards as pussies?
And speaking of still-taboo vagina euphemisms, has everyone seen the video of Jane Fonda casually saying "cunt" on the Today show?
Meredith Vieira assures Today viewers not familiar with the "reclaimed" meaning of the word: "Jane Fonda inadvertently said a word from the play that you don't say on TV." And indeed, you probably shouldn't be using the C-word on TV if you're Chris Matthews. But if you're Jane Fonda talking about a segment of The Vagina Monologues? I think it's ok. Context is everything.
Nice question, Couric. Jeez.
Via Shakes, with whom I share the same STFU sentiment.
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Wow. Because if this disgusting cologne spray can reduce your average woman to a feral animal, just imagine what it can do for a presidential hopeful in a tight race against a female candidate! This might be an all-time low for both Hillary Sexism Watch and for Axe ads. And that's really saying something.
Previously in Hilary Sexism Watch:
Chelsea edition
Acronym edition
Misogyny-wear edition
Cheek-pinching edition
"Gender expert" edition
Shock collar edition
Hitchens is an asshole edition
Ironing edition
Accessories edition
Management edition
Laughing edition
Previous Axe-is-disgusting posts:
The manliest of loofahs
A new low for Axe
Axe: The sweet stink of sexism
'Female subject is idle and ready for test sequence'
The Violence Effect
Apparently they're still hitting the "bad working mom" theme with Hillary Clinton. The nerve of her, allowing her adult daughter to campaign for her! (Never mind that Chelsea is 27 years old.)
DAVID SHUSTER: Bill, there's just something a little bit unseemly to me that Chelsea's out there calling up celebrities, saying support my mom, and she's apparently also calling these super delegates.BILL PRESS: Hey, she's working for her mom. What's unseemly about that? During the last campaign, the Bush twins were out working for their dad. I think it's great, I think she's grown up in a political family, she's got politics in her blood, she loves her mom, she thinks she'd make a great president --
SHUSTER: But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?
Uh, no. It doesn't. And it's not like we never see male politicians' wives, mothers, and daughters on the campaign trail with them.
UPDATE: Shakes has a round-up of even more sexist bullshit about Hillary.
UPDATE II: Shuster has apologized.
Hillary Sexism Watch: More name-calling.
Three women in Canada file a complaint against their imam for treating them differently than men and using abusive language toward them.
Ema has a nice rundown of the history of Kansas patient-chart stealer Phill Kline.
On the gross new "reality" TV show, Battle of the Bods.
Margaret Cho calls out the racist, sexist assumption that women of color will have to "choose" their race or gender while voting. "Why are white men allowed to look at the issues and judge for themselves and the rest of us are expected to take sides grade school style?" (DnA has a counterpoint.)
Our Bodies Our Blog asks, "do women really want on-demand C-sections?"
[Note: I had a bunch of other links in here with nice snarky comments, but MovableType decided to randomly delete the rest of my post. So I'm just going to put the headlines and links below the fold. My comments will return next week...]
A new 527 organization has formed with the express purpose of opposing Hillary Clinton. Which, in and of itself, isn't sexist. Until you hear the name of the group:
That's right, C.U.N.T.
Oh, and also, the group doesn't really do anything except sell sexist T-shirts.
Oh how clever. It would be nice if misogynists could be fucking original for once.
Thanks to Brandann for the link, who saw this shirt in the airport (!) and went through the trouble of looking it up online.
Fox News' Your World recently featured "No Nonsense Man" Marc Rudov, who commented that "When Barack Obama speaks, men hear, 'Take off for the future.' And when Hillary Clinton speaks, men hear, 'Take out the garbage.' " The text on-screen during his appearance...well, you can see it for yourself.
Rodov's expertise? Well, he wrote what I'm sure is a page-turner called Under the Clitoral Hood: How to Crank Her Engine Without Cash, Booze, or Jumper Cables, and has been featured here on Feministing for his warning to parents not to send their "actively heterosexual" to "gynoversities." And if that was telling enough, just check out the headline on Rodov's homepage: "YOU Are Tolerating Her Nonsense!"
Who knew that Frank T.J. Mackey actually existed in real life?!
Washington Post blogger Joel Achenbach has an interesting idea for controlling uppity women:
Clinton fought back, but she needs a radio-controlled shock collar so that aides can zap her when she starts to get screechy.
Thanks Joel, for doing the work of marking yourself as a misogynist so I now know never to read anything else you write. Shameful.
Christopher Hitchens, who believes that the presence of a vagina prevents one from having a sense of humor, stayed classy in his column for Slate this week:
Off to the side, snarling with barely concealed rage, are the Clinton machine-minders, who, having failed to ignite the same kind of identity excitement with an aging and resentful female, are perhaps wishing that they had made more of her errant husband having already been "our first black president."
I guess if anyone knows something about being aging and resentful, it's Hitchens--but that doesn't mean he's not still a sexist asshole.
The last few days have really brought out some sexist assholery concerning Sen. Hillary Clinton. In the past, we've ran a post series called Hillary Sexism Watch, but given just how many different sexist things have happened recently, one post isn't enough. So therefore tomorrow we're launching a 24-Hour Hillary Sexism Watch: all day I'll be posting different instances of nasty misogyny leveled against Clinton. (If you have any you think I should post, please email me.)
But just so you have something to look forward to (as much as one can look forward to hearing about sexism), I'll put up one today.
This I'm a little late on--it seems several young men at a campaign event in New Hampshire yesterday started yelling out "Iron my shirt!"
Mrs. Clinton asked for the lights to be turned on, and the shirt man was removed along with another man who had stood up too.“Oh, the remnants of sexism are alive and well,� Mrs. Clinton said.
When everyone had settled down a bit, she said, “As I think has just been abundantly demonstrated, I am also running to break through the highest and hardest glass ceiling.�
Indeed. Also, for the dude with the sign--I'll iron something for you, but it won't be your shirt.
Belated edition!
On the systemic execution of gays and lesbians in Iraq.
A truly terrible headline: "Scandal reveals women love to steal-- then shop"
The German government calls on the fashion industry to regulate itself and portray more than super-skinny body types.
Women have got the spine for pregnancy, apparently.
A new sterilization method provides an alternative to the tubal ligation by creating scar tissue in the fallopian tubes. (via.)
Female characters as comedic killjoys.
At least 40 women were murdered in Basra in the past year.
The recent Albuquerque clinic fire was indeed arson.
On the death of Pakistani-Canadian teenager, and what the hijab has (and doesn't have) to do with it.
Thank Bush for the teen birth rate.
There's a new book out on Bella Abzug.
This is just ridiculous.
The Wall Street Journal on golddiggers.
Hillary Sexism Watch: Drudge edition. (Shocking, I know.)
Abstinence programs are flailing in the states.
Sexual assault victims in Wisconsin will no longer have to pay the bills for their hospital exam and treatment after the assault.
Two women who married in Massachusetts have been barred from getting a divorce in their home state of Rhode Island.
On Hillary's pantsuits. (eyeroll.)
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In tonight's debate, she was actually asked, "Diamonds or pearls?" What a stupid, gendered question. She said she likes diamonds and pearls. (My first thought: Hillary's into Prince?")
Addie notes that, no, the dudes were not asked, "Boxers or briefs?" Robbed of their ability to play their gender cards! How unfair.
