Sure, there are legitimate reasons not to like Hillary Clinton -- it's the expression of that dislike that has so often taken sexist form.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.07.2008 | 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...
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.12.2008 | 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.
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.
Erica Jong | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Why is it okay for men to get misty and not for women? Why is it assumed everything HRC does is scripted? Why is a man more sincere than a woman?
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
I read with interest Christopher Buckley's comment this weekend on the "American Idea," as inspired by the Atlantic's 150th anniversary celebration an...
New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A critical question in this campaign -- how to run against a female presidential candidate, or as one -- has burst into the foreground in the aftermat...
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
From Lynn Sweet's blog at the Chicago Sun-Times: WASHINGTON--White House hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is mounting a "girlfriend" offe...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2008 | Media