Sexism

MSNBC's David Shuster: Chelsea 'Pimped Out' by Hillary

Taylor Marsh | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Shuster, Msnbc, 2008, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Media, Keith Olbermann, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Misogyny, Misogyny, Chelsea Clinton Stumps With Mom, Chelsea Clinton, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Pimping Out Chelsea, Sexism, Chelsea Clinton Campaign, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

This frat boy, anti-Clinton wingnut-channeling tirade targeting Chelsea Clinton has proven that Shuster's not up to the job or the position to which MSNBC has bestowed on him.

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Racism Greater Factor Than Sexism On Super Tuesday

John K. Wilson | Posted 02.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Sexism and Politics, Sexism vs. Racism, 2008, Racism 2008 Primary, Sexism, Racism and Politics, Democratic Nomination, Racism, Racism Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Sexism Hillary Clinton, Gender vs. Race 2008, Barack Obama, Election, President, Sexism 2008 Primary, 2008 Primary, Home News
John K. Wilson

Barack Obama squeaked out a narrow win on Super Tuesday to expand his small lead in the pledged delegates. While many of the exit polls were off as pr...

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Cold, Calculating Hillary

Kim Mance | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Teleprompter, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Sexism, 2008 Election and Sexism, Hillary Gender Election, 2008 Election, 2008 Election and Gender, Barack Obama, Politics News
Kim Mance

Yes, Hillary is calculating. She's calculating exactly how carefully she has to say things not to be construed as a bitch or a nag by our stereotyped gender lens.

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What The Debate Over Obama's Race And Clinton's Gender Says About Us

Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 02.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Racism, Obama, Clinton, Race, Sexism, Gender, Home News
Kelly Nuxoll

let's talk about what's really happening: when Obama and Clinton spar in a debate or speak at a rostrum in front of the American flag, we as the American public are forced to associate black and female with power.

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Pushing Back Against the Hillary Haters

Jane Hamsher | Posted 02.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Misogny, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Sexism, Media Sexism, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Home News
Jane Hamsher

If Hillary Clinton does pull this thing off, she will have done so against the seemingly insurmountable weight of 16 years of being the target of misogny and hatred.

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Iraq, Iraq, Iraq: Remember the Bush Quagmire on Feb. 5

John Seery | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, John McCain, Sexism, 2008 Election and Race, 2008 Election and Sexism, Super Tuesday, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, 2008 Election and Gender, Barack Obama, Philip Roth, Politics News
John Seery

If the general election comes down to McCain vs. Obama, then the campaign becomes a national referendum on the war. The GOP will have to defend it at every turn.

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From Superdome to Superlove -- V-Day at 10

Marianne Schnall | Posted 01.31.2008 | Life

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Sexual Violence, V-Day, Feminist, Women's Health, Sex, The Vagina Monologues, Sexism, Eve Ensler, Theater, Media Sexism, Feminism, Superdome, Life News
Marianne Schnall

The "mega event of the decade," as Eve Ensler describes it, is certain to be The Vagina Monologues' and V-Day's ten-year anniversary celebration, V to the Tenth.

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My Hillary Problem: Redux

Alison Owings | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latino Vote, Latino Voters, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Sexism, 2008 Election and Sexism, Hillary Gender Election, 2008 Election, Feminism, Barack Obama, 2008 Election and Gender, Gender, Politics News
Alison Owings

All in all, is Barack Obama any less of a feminist than Hillary Clinton?

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Family Politics

Abigail Pogrebin | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: National Organization for Women, NOW-NYC Hillary Clinton, Now, Hillary Gender Election, Feminism, 2008 Election, 2008 Election and Gender, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Gender, Ms. Magazine, NOW-NYC, Ted Kennedy Endorses Obama, Caroline Kennedy Endorses Obama, Ted Kennedy Endorsement, Sexism, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Gender, Politics News
Abigail Pogrebin

I believe that Kennedy decided Obama was the better person to heal this country at a critical time. NOW's rebuke is exactly what allows people to write off "feminism" as angry and hopelessly stuck.

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Racism and Sexism

Leslie Griffith | Posted 01.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Roseanne Barr Obama, Racism, Sexism, Roseanne Barr, Media News
Leslie Griffith

Anyone who compares a presidential candidate to the most renowned terrorist in the world is looking for attention at the expense of a country already torn apart.

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The Monster, The Prince and the Good Ol' Boy

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Illegal Immigrants Drivers Licenses, South Carolina Debate, Sexism, South Carolina, 2008 Election and Race, Strom Thurmond, Democrats, Race, Dixiecrat, 2008 Election, 2008 Election and Gender, Spitzer Drivers Licences, Gender, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

The Democratic Party doesn't see itself for what it is -- a big tent party that alternates between pandering to non-whites and insulting them.

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Forget Young At Heart, Do You Have To Be Young At Work?

The New York Times | NATASHA SINGER | Posted 01.24.2008 | Life

Read More: How Not to Look Old, Women Looking Young, Looking Young at Work, Women at Work, Sexism, Working Women, Ageism, Pressure to Look Young, Life News

IN a new self-help book called "How Not to Look Old," chapter headings in screaming capital letters warn readers of the dreaded signs of aging that ar...

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When Men Let Themselves Go

men.style.com/details | Pete Wells | Posted 01.23.2008 | Life

Read More: Men's Health, Double Standards for Women, Men Health, Double Standards, Weight Gain, Sexism, Life News

Letting yourself go is not exclusively a male pursuit, of course. It's just that men can get away with it. Last year, Tyra Banks publicly defended her...

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Disunited We Will Never Stand

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election and Sexism, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Female Competition, Women and Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Sexism, Politics News
Margaret Heffernan

Women -- not men -- pass judgment on her marriage as though this has serious bearing on her performance as a legislator. Men don't need to do it, because women do it for them.

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In 2008 Female Masturbation Still Stirs Anxiety

Joyce McFadden | Posted 01.21.2008 | Life

Read More: Oprah, Sexual Health, Mental Health, Female Sexuality, Sexism, Masturbation, Female Masturbation, Life News
Joyce McFadden

It's often easier to reduce masturbation (and the women discussing it) to a dirty joke rather than to value it as a component of female vitality, a vitality which for many women is hard fought.

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It Was Eight Years Ago Today (But It Seems Like Eighty)

Erica Jong | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, 2000 Election, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Sexism, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Erica Jong

Do we need another president learning on the job? I think not -- even if his heart, unlike Dubya's, is in the right place. Give Hillary a break.

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Monsters in the Democratic Id

RJ Eskow | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Mahatma Gandhi, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Sexism, 2008 Election and Race, Race, 2008 Election, 2008 Election and Gender, Politics News
RJ Eskow

The entire Clinton team could suddenly have become accident-prone when it comes to racial statements. But there are books on subliminal messaging in politics and they have read them.

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Gender Backlash

Bob Burnett | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Media Sexism, 2008 Election and Gender, Sexism, Gender, Politics News
Bob Burnett

On January 9th, Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, much to the surprise of political pundits who had spent the previous few day...

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Who's The Real Racist? Where's the True Sexist? Let's Get a Grip!

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Msm, Sexism, Ageism, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Race, Politics News
Kathleen Reardon

Accidental offense is not the same as intentional insult. We need to get these differences clear in our minds and demand the same of the press.

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My Debate with Gloria Steinem Continues: Race, Gender & the Election

Sally Kohn | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gloria Steinem New York Times, Sexism, Gloria Steinem, 2008 Election and Race, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Feminism, Barack Obama, 2008 Election and Gender, Politics News
Sally Kohn

Steinem said that she sees racism and sexism as linked, but the piece ends up conveying something opposite.

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The Fence

Rebecca Walker | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Second Wave Feminism, Gloria Steinem New York Times, Sexism, 2008 Election and Race, Gloria Steinem, Women and Politics, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem Hillary, Feminism, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, 2008 Election and Gender, Gender, Third Wave Feminism, Politics News
Rebecca Walker

The idea that young women are too naive to realize the pervasiveness of sexism is an old Second Wave feminist trope used to dismiss and discredit an entire generation, many of whom now support Obama because he doesn't insult them.

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Chris Matthews, The Continental

August J. Pollak | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Misogyny, Msnbc, Hillary Clinton, Feminism, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Chris Matthews, Sexism, Politics News
August J. Pollak

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I Love the 90s: Gender, Race and the Clintons

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Al Sharpton, Women's Issues, African-Americans, Bill Shaheen, George W. Bush, Drugs, Primaries, Joycelyn Elders, Identity Politics, Sexism, New Hampshire, John Edwards, Racism, Senators, Nita Lowey, Bill Clinton, Gender, Black Voters, Lani Guinier, Clintons, Joe Biden, Black Issues, Feminism, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, 1990s, New York City, New York, Elections, Sister Souljah, Rudy Giuliani, Race, Martin Luther King, 2008 Presidential Race, South Carolina, Iowa, Homophobia, George H. W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Presidential Race, Lyndon Johnson, Senate, Gay Issues, White Voters, Governors, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Hillary has begun a campaign based on rigorous 1990s politics of identity, a game at which the Clintons excel, using one group against another as the need arises.

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Who's Tired of Pink?

Erica Jong | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Sexism, Politics News
Erica Jong

I know there are bad mothers, bad women, bad sisters, bad aunts, and bad females of every stripe. But I have seen enough men in high office to last a lifetime.

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How the Gilmore Girls Could Have Helped Hillary Clinton Predict her Political Fate

Jennifer L. Pozner | Posted 01.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Scott Spradling, Likeability, Hillary Clinton Cries, Hillary Clinton Sexism, 2008 Election and Sexism, Women in Media and News, Hillary Gender Election, Hillary Clinton Crying, 2008 Election, 2008 Election and Gender, Gender, Gilmore Girls, Media Coverage of Hillary, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Alexis Bledel, Sexism, Media Sexism, WIMN, Media News
Jennifer L. Pozner

Journalists have been quick to insist that we will pull the lever for or against Clinton based on whether or not she makes us feel all warm and fuzzy.

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