2008 Election and Sexism

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Donna Brazile Reflects on Race, Gender, and the Media in the 2008 Elections

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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Brazile wowed the assembled crowd at St. Johns with a combination of thoughtful insights, dry humor, insider anecdotes, and culinary metaphors.

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Older, Unhappy Women As Swing Voters

Janet Ritz | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

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Older women might end up voting against their own interests with a McCain who, at least, culturally speaks their language, as opposed to an Obama, who does not seem to be speaking to them at all.

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"Women's Lib" Reborn?

Caryl Rivers | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

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The message when the first woman to have a real shot at the presidency is consistently called shrill and cackling is that women should have no voice in the public arena and will be humiliated if they try to enter it.

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Want to See Sexism? Try Calling Your Opponent a Ditz and Joking About Clinton's Death

Matt Stoller | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

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These videos are really quite stunning. Rep. Dave Reichert's jokes about Hillary Clinton dying are just the latest in a career of using sexist slurs and innuendo to deny women full equality.

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Does Clinton Camp Talk of Sexism Risk the Democrats' Future?

Eric Deggans | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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This is how the Clintons could pull the Democratic Party down to general election defeat alongside their fading presidential hopes: a pointless fight over gender politics.

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Hillary's Sexist End-Game

Gary Cohan | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

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Sexism cuts both ways; Hillary's continued presence in this campaign is, in and of itself, a manipulation of the very concept. If Hillary were a man, she would have been long gone.

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L'Affaire Shuster: Big Camel, Big Straw

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Some people thought this called for Shuster's firing, but they're wrong: It called for an examination of a pattern of behavior. At this point, Clinton and her team should know that any more is gonna smack of politics; her point has been amply, amply made.

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