Excellent Smirking Chimp article on Hillary Bashing

[XanaDUer]

WARNING-Sexism alert-it will raise your blood pressure:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/13605



Gender bias remains alive and strong

This column for Karen, on her birthday

My 82-year-old mother is bereft. Mom was born just six years after women got the right to vote in this country, and she thought for awhile there that she might live long enough to see a woman become president. Now it looks as though that won't happen.

And, though I personally will be happy to see Barack Obama follow the catastrophic George Bush into the highest office in the land, I, too, am disappointed that Hillary's bid for the presidency is floundering and likely to fail. As the father of two daughters, I know a Hillary Clinton victory would have had enormous symbolic and psychological significance for younger women. It would have been "empowering," in the true sense of that perniciously overused word.

Years ago, I taught at a college up in Washington State, an institution that prided itself on its pre-med and dental-assisting departments. I routinely faced classes with large numbers of young women who were seeking certification to become dental assistants or LVNs. Once in awhile, when one or another of these students would turn up during office hours, I would ask why they hadn't considered becoming doctors or dentists. Their answers made it clear that such an idea was virtually unthinkable because of images of women they'd inherited from popular culture. If you'd talked to them about "a woman's place," they would have bridled at the thought, but they'd been trained to keep their place, nonetheless, and the training was encoded with such subtlety that it was virtually invisible. They were groomed to be dental assistants, not dentists...

[XanaDUer]

1. Kick

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[judaspriestess]

2. Its complete utter bullshit

It was a classic Catch-22 situation, a catch that seems to apply exclusively to women, a catch that ensures they will be damned if they do, and damned if they don't. They are harridans if they act as men are thought to act, and they are weak if they don't. That catch virtually defines the glass ceiling. There was just no possible response to the endemic sexism still festering in the nation's psyche. No tough foreign policy posturing would do the trick, and neither would a department store full of pantsuits

and HELL YEAH I'm pissed off about it. And to all those idiots who aren't voting with their "vagina's" well thats probably because they don't use it. It makes sense.

[XanaDUer]

3. Oh, yeah.

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[XanaDUer]

4. Kick.

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