McCain Craves Reggaeton (Hard!)
The celebratory acceptance of the Daddy Yankee endorsement throws light on the true nature of the Republican efforts during the Democratic Convention to win over disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters.
The celebratory acceptance of the Daddy Yankee endorsement throws light on the true nature of the Republican efforts during the Democratic Convention to win over disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters.
Alison Owings | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics
The soul-robbing sexism of the past has come home to roost in the present. The Hillary Holdouts who could not wear pants to work then, yell their support for their pantsuit-wearing avenger now.
KC Shoen | Posted 09.14.2008 | Home
It's mental masturbation with hate as the aphrodisiac. Obama's message of reconciliation and change is non-existent among the Obama supporters posting these comments. It's all very... Republican.
Janet Ritz | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
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.
Katie Molinaro | Posted 09.06.2008 | Media
I realize female gymnasts are petite, but I could think of a variety of less sexist and more relevant adjectives than "adorable" to describe them. How about strong, fearless and dedicated?
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media
Scarborough epitomized every boorish, condescending male that ever tried to diminish a woman... whether it be a family member, a co-worker, or a presidential candidate.
Beth Arnold | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media
Before this political season began, my feeling was that Dowd had lost her touch. But then, thanks to the human material she had in this race, Dowd hit her stride again.
Linda Keenan | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
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?
CBN | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
David Brody recently sat down with Sen. Barack Obama in a one-on-one interview. Brody asked Obama what should be done about the negative tone in today...
Dave Zirin | Posted 06.27.2008 | Entertainment
Danica Patrick has revived a debate as old as Sonia Henie skating figure eights at the 1926 Olympics: Does sex sell -- or perhaps more aptly phrased, does sexism sell -- women's sports?
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
During the primary season, roughly 35 million people voted for somebody who was not a white man. Maybe the Republicans have a problem -- America is not ready for another white male president.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 06.23.2008 | 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 06.21.2008 | 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.
Ellen Feldman | Posted 06.21.2008 | Media
Now that Hillary has finally conceded, the argument about sexism in news coverage begins, and the good news is that this time it isn't too late to do something about it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
Does John McCain's campaign have its own message on Sen. Hillary Clinton straight? Last Tuesday, during his poorly received speech in front of the now...
Linda Hansen | Posted 06.14.2008 | Home
I'm sixty years old. I can't recall a time--ever--that any man who lost a close election demanded "time to adjust to the pain of losing" before conceding. Hillary lost a close one and got a case of the vapors.
Ilana Goldman | Posted 06.13.2008 | 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...
Eric Deggans | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
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.
Baratunde Thurston | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
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.
Tom D'Antoni | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Obama would do well to swallow the bitter pill and take Clinton on as running mate. And send Bill to be ambassador to anywhere.
Matt Stoller | Posted 06.10.2008 | 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 06.10.2008 | 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.
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media
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.
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.31.2008 | Home
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.
Linda Hansen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Home
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.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home