“I feel I was targeted by the TSA employee to go through the see-you-naked machine because I am a semi-attractive female.”
“At one point the passenger was asked if she plays tennis because of her ‘cute’ figure.’”
South Carolina GOP Operative Suggests Inappropriate Nicknames For Pelosi
After Herman Cain called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “Princess Nancy,” the former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party joked on Twitter that perhaps a better nickname for her would be “The Crabby Cunt from the California Coast,” among other suggestions.
Todd Kincannon is a South Carolina lawyer and served as parliamentarian, general counsel and executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party between 2004 and 2010.
On Twitter, he also suggested that some better names for Pelosi would be “The Botox Bitch from Buggeryland” and “Nancy the Crooked Whore”
Anyone who thinks sexism is dead needs to look no further than JCPenny for the truth. Via The Hairpin.
wtf y’all?!
BI: Sarah Palin: I Don’t Think Newsweek’s Cover Of Michele Bachmann Was Sexist
Here’s what Palin told Fox’s Megyn Kelly when she brought up the cover:
Every candidate is going to be vetted I think now so more than ever because we learned a lesson with electing a president who was not vetted by the mainstream media. And basically we’re asking now ‘what did we get out of that?’…so I think there’s going to be a lot of vetting and some will interpret that because a female candidate will be vetted the same as a man or even more so as being sexist. I don’t know if I would characterize it as sexist. I would just characterize it as being the new normal. In a way it’s quite healthy though, again, learning a lesson from electing Barack Obama.
(via politicalpartygirl)
“She makes for good copy—and good photography,”
“Here is Bryant Gumbel on the “coddling” of the fair maidens of the U.S. women’s soccer team, from his closing commentary on HBO’s “Real Sports” tonight:
“Finally tonight, can we stop coddling women in sports? Are we now so fearful of being labeled sexist that we can’t objectively assess the efforts of female athletes? Those are both valid questions that have come to the fore in the wake of the patronizing reactions that have followed the USA’s loss to Japan in the Women’s World Cup soccer final.
For the record, in the final, a very determined but unheralded Japanese team won the championship, upsetting a U.S. team that was heavily favored and ranked number one in the world of Women’s Soccer. En route to the loss, the American women failed to cash in on a wealth of early scoring chances, twice blew late leads with sloppy mistakes, and then got badly outclassed in penalty kicks.
Had a men’s team turned in a similar performance, papers and pundits nationwide would have had a field day assailing the players, criticizing the coach, and demanding widespread changes to a men’s national team that flat out choked. Yet the common reaction to this ladies’ loss were simply expressions of empathy for the defeat of the unfortunate darlings and pride in their oh-so-heroic effort.
Look, I have no desire to see anyone assail the women’s game or their athletes unfairly. But if the definition of true equality is treating folks honestly, without regard for race or gender, then it’s time we started critiquing women athletes in the same way we do the men. I’m sure some won’t like it, but blind praise is worthless in the absence of fair criticism.”
HBO’s Bryant Gumbel would prefer that we stop “coddling” the Women’s World Cup silver medalists. @sportswatch
Via Neil Best, Newsday
(via sportsnetny)Unbelievable.
A must watch. This video by the Women’s Media Center, “Sexism Sells—But We’re Not Buying It,” shows several real-life examples of prominent figures in the news making disgusting, extreme sexist remarks, specifically about the presence of (in reality, the lack thereof) women in politics. Obsessive, dehumanizing analysis of women’s appearances? Equating women in politics to having “nagging voices” that remind men of their wives? Fears of castration? It’s all here!
Foxy News: The Cable News Home For Sexism & Scantily Clad Women
Hey MSNBC if you’re gonna cover the Inés Sainz - NY Jets sexual harassment story try not to be hypocritical. I don’t for a minute condone any of the behavior that has been reported but media entities constantly showing pics of Ms. Sainz from behind is obvious sexism. Don’t use this story as an excuse to show salacious photos. A quick google search provides plenty of photos of Ms. Sainz’s face.
Sean Connery tells Barbara Walters It’s Okay to Hit Women
During this unforgettable 1987 interview, when Barbara Walters asked Connery about his comments on hitting women, he calmly nodded his head and affirmed our suspicions by saying “I haven’t changed my opinion.” The suave actor asserted that a woman “merits” a smack to the face if she continues to provoke a man after an argument has been resolved. Look, I know what you’re thinking, but Sean Connery is not a monster: he advocates the open hand technique as opposed to a closed fist. What a charmer. - 25 Uncomfortable Talk Show Moments - KoldCast TV
““Unmarried women, 70% of unmarried women, voted for Obama, and this is because when you kick your husband out, you’ve got to have big brother government to be your provider.””
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly - Dems Call On GOPers To Renounce Phyllis Schlafly Over Remarks About ‘Unmarried Women’.
…Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum and infamous for her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Daily Show Co-Creator Lizz Winstead Erupts At Feminist Blogger
“I get really frustrated when people claim that the Daily Show is sexist when I’ve worked with Jon Stewart on four separate projects and he is the least sexist person ever. They’re not trying to not hire women, they’re trying to hire the best possible people for the show. You can call it a boy’s club, it’s not. It’s a nerd club. And I challenge anybody who has submitted to the Daily Show, who if she didn’t get hired as a writer, who actually thought, ‘ok I didn’t get hired on this shot. What I’m going to do is I’m going to start a blog that has a focus and tone like the Daily Show, so they can see the kind of work I do, so they can see there are women out there trying to do that.’ I haven’t seen that blog. When I first launched that show, I got 150 writer submissions. Three were from women. Three, that’s it.”
“Well, I think it‘s simply because of the vilification of black women for sport and for political gain has been sort of a basic part of the American political strategy for both the Republican and Democratic parties for a couple of decades now. It certainly began with Ronald Reagan‘s attempt to blame the majority of the economic problems of the 1980s on the mythical Welfare Queen who was somehow stealing from government coffers.
But it continued into the Clinton administration when Bill Clinton as a candidate, made an unprovoked attack on Sister Souljah as a way of demonstrating kind of—that he was a new and a centrist Democrat who wouldn‘t be beholden to typical race issues. And it continued when he turned his back on a law school friend in the person of Lani Guinier.
You know, I have to say that, for me, this is not surprising, but it is painful to watch that, again, even in this administration, how easy it is to assume that an African-American woman deserves to be vilified.”
