Sexism

Open Letter to Hillary

Ilana Goldman | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Gender Election, Hillary Clinton 2008, Hillary Clinton Sexism, 2008 Election and Gender, Sexism, Gender, Politics News

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...

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Did Hillary Clinton's Media Missteps Help Doom Her Campaign?

Eric Deggans | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media

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It remains an enduring legacy of the conservative media machine -- and their own past mistakes -- that a couple so admired by the public has such awful relations with the Fourth Estate.

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This Primary Campaign Has Brought Out The Best And Worst In Me

Baratunde Thurston | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Primary, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Racism, Race-Baiting, Sexism, Politics News

I have and will continue to maintain that I've gotten much more out of this process than Obama. Yet I have at times felt driven to lash out in ways that expose the limits of my own ability to communicate.

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Clinton as V.P.? Grrr... Well, OK

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

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Obama would do well to swallow the bitter pill and take Clinton on as running mate. And send Bill to be ambassador to anywhere.

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

Matt Stoller | Posted 06.02.2008 | 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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Hillary's Eternal Last Gasp

Beth Arnold | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

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Sexism doesn't explain why Hillary lost and neither does the false accusation that the media preferred Obama as the Hillary-ites endlessly drone.

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Sexism. It's Not Just About Hillary Clinton Anymore

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Coverage, Hillary Clinton, Gender Bias, Women's Media Center, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Media Bias, Sexism, Media News

The most famous and infamous TV pundits aren't reserving their 'looks are everything' moments to talk of Hillary's cleavage or wrinkles. There are no limits. We are all fair game.

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Jim Webb's Baggage

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home

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In the year of the Clinton candidacy, asking Democrats to vote for a vice presidential candidate who snickered about calling the Naval Academy "a horny woman's dream" is just rubbing salt in the wounds.

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Kamikaze Kittens, Faux-Feminism and All-Or-Nothing Politics

Linda Hansen | Posted 05.22.2008 | Home

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Women: We have got to stop this prolonged, gender-driven tantrum. Shrieking "I wanna woman in the White House. Now! Or else!" solves nothing. And it could cost us more than the election.

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Sexism: the Retrospective

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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The Hillary candidacy is safely presumed dead. Long live Hillary! And her eulogy? It's mostly about her gender. Media and speeches today read somethin...

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

Eric Deggans | Posted 05.21.2008 | 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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Obama's Sexist Victory in Oregon

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.21.2008 | Home

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Given Clinton's recent major and undeniable race-inflected victories, the increasing charges of sexism, particularly against Obama himself, are misguided at best. This is no way to advance party unity or women's rights.

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Full Transcript of Hillary Claiming Sexism Worse than Racism in Campaign

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

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In the Washington Post, Clinton briefly hit "sexism" in media coverage of her campaign as "deeply offensive to millions of women," but she went much further.

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Olberman, Matthews, Cafferty -- Sexist Remarks In Bitch Video

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.20.2008 | Media

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Clinton Confronts Sexism On the Trail and Vows to Battle On --- Washington Post Millions of women all over the country feel that Hillary has not got...

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Hillary's Sexist End-Game

Gary Cohan | Posted 05.20.2008 | 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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Sexism & Politics -- Where Do We Go From Here?

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

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As Hillary's voice gets quieter in this campaign, I'm wondering where we, as political women, go from here?

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Even More Confused about Women and Hillary

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

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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?

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Sexism, Racism, and Reality: Healing From A Hard Campaign

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

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Sexism has infested this race, and many of us have deplored it. But reality is multifaceted. While Sen. Clinton has faced bigotry, so has her opponent.

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Powerful Video of Ugly Sexist Vilification of Hillary Clinton

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

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Sexism is alive and well in America. One exit poll I saw had almost twice as many voters having trouble voting for a woman for president than voting...

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More Than a Piece of Meat

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Marginalization, Third Wave Feminism, Women's Issues, Feminism and Society, Sex, Sexuality, Sexism, Living News

The saying goes: "Why buy the cow when you can have the milk for free?" Well, my milk and my love are always free. I can't be bought and will not bear my sexuality as a bartering item.

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The Hillary Metaphors

August J. Pollak | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

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Somewhere Right Now, On This 21st Century Mother's Day, a Woman Is Being Accused Of Witchcraft

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.10.2008 | Living

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We may idealize women in the role of mother, but the urge to demonize the female isn't just a tribal one. Do you know when the last woman was imprisoned for witchcraft in Great Britain?

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That vs. Who: The Politics of Linguistics

Carol Maric | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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I Object! Or is that Subject? This was my first reaction to the common linguistic objectification of sentient beings which has become pervasive in America.

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On Sexist Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton

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.

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Chris Matthews Demonstrates Our Fourth Estate is Third Rate on Real Time (And Nobody Notices!)

Katie Halper | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media

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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.

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