Am I a Hillary-Hating Sexist? You Tell Me
I argued that the first woman president should be one who didn't come in on the coattails of a man, but is it realistic to expect a female leader at this moment to be perfectly cleansed of male power?
I argued that the first woman president should be one who didn't come in on the coattails of a man, but is it realistic to expect a female leader at this moment to be perfectly cleansed of male power?
Chicago Sun Times | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
"I'm a victim of sexism myself all the time," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) discussing Tuesday morning whether sexism played a significan...
Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
In an article on media sexism in the Democratic primary, NYT Public Editor Clark Hoyt singles out Maureen Dowd's columns as deserving more scrutiny: ...
Caryl Rivers | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics
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.
John Neffinger | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
Since research shows that as a society we still share some strong culturally-enforced biases in how we perceive men and women, maybe next time I will take the time to make it clear where I stand.
New York Times | KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media
Angered by what they consider sexist news coverage of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, many women and ...
Maegan Carberry | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
The end of Hillary Clinton's candidacy proved that a woman can be just as sneaky and misleading and desperate as a male politician faced with failure and the implosion of a chance at power.
Peter Clothier | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Clinton can't blame the media, sexism, or others for the failure. She started out an easy frontrunner, with the full weight of the party machinery behind her. It was hers to lose, and she lost it.
Ilana Goldman | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Dear Hillary - I say this to you almost daily, but since it's normally to you on the TV screen, I thought I should find a way of saying it where you...
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
Given the treatment Hillary has received, I fear it will be a long time before another woman is ready to subject herself -- and her family -- to the meat grinder of American presidential politics.
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 06.03.2008 | Entertainment
Something big is happening and SATC didn't cause it, it just reflects it. Whether or not you are a Hillary fan, there is a gender conversation happening in this country, and women are angry.
Matt Stoller | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
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.
Beth Arnold | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
Sexism doesn't explain why Hillary lost and neither does the false accusation that the media preferred Obama as the Hillary-ites endlessly drone.
Eric Deggans | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
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.
Gary Cohan | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
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.
Washington Post | Lois Romano | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Women of all ages and nationalities push against the rope line carrying books and T-shirts, posters and stuffed animals -- anything for her to autogra...
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
How can anyone say that Clinton is expanding the boundaries of what is possible for women when she keeps defining her legitimacy by claiming that other women will never expand theirs?
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.17.2008 | Media
Sure, there are legitimate reasons not to like Hillary Clinton -- it's the expression of that dislike that has so often taken sexist form.
Elaine Hopkins | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home
No one has told Obama to "park my car" or "shine my shoes," while Hillary is told to "iron my shirt" and worse. Yet Hillary wins where it counts. Will the superdelegates really nominate the black intellectual to run against the white war hero?
August J. Pollak | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media
I wrote in this space last week about a remark Keith Olbermann made about Hillary Clinton, one with which I and others took issue as having sexist imp...
Jessica Wakeman | Posted 04.27.2008 | Media
Clinton's run for the Democratic nomination has been awash with the most dispiriting ridicule I have seen in my (albeit short) lifetime.
Katie Halper | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media
On Friday's Real Time, Chris Matthews spoke from a position of fabricated and self-appointed authority, this time as as the spokesman of all blue collar men in Pennsylvania.
Keli Goff | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
The majority of anti-Hillary sentiment may not be steeped in sexism. Hillary Clinton was viewed as polarizing long before she ever ran for president.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.04.2008 | Home
Many people have become sensitized -- even hypersensitized -- to issues of racism in this campaign, and words and attitudes are being examined and questioned. But sexism seems to go largely unnoticed or, if it is noticed, is dismissed as irrelevant.
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Linda Keenan | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics