The Hypocrisy Is Shameless, and It Oozes
Fred Hiatt the Self-Righteous, Dishonest, and Craven:
If a White Male Were to Make Such Racist Comments, He Would Have His Own Radio Show
I have a blog post up at The Moderate Voice about implied gender bias in a New York Times article about supposed concerns among SCOTUS watchers that Sonia Sotomayor’s so-called “sharp tongue” and “blunt style” raise “temperament” issues.
Oh dear lord…
Via a Jessica Valenti tweet, I found out that Dennis Prager has written part II of his pro-marital rape columns. Kathy wrote about the first one, if you need a quick reminder, and I won’t write much about this one…
From Political Chastity to Whoredom
Oh, sexism. How you rear your silly head in the most obscure and well-meaning of metaphors. From the New York Times today:
For Kennedy, Self-Promotion Is Unfamiliar
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and JEREMY W. PETERS
After a lifetime of being wooed by others, Caroline Kennedy is still learning how to sell herself.
Teehee! It works, because she’s a woman, and she has to go from being sought after (by political suitors, so to speak) to selling herself to people (to political elites, specifically)… get it? Teeheehee! She needs to be flashier, see — give them the old razzle dazzle, Ms. Caroline K:
Others pointed out that Ms. Kennedy was also laboring under a colossal weight of expectations. Some people seem to expect her to be more, well, Kennedyesque — gregarious and extroverted. But Ms. Kennedy’s own political style seems to have more in common with that of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who once held Mrs. Clinton’s seat: cerebral, restrained, wry.
In an age when flamboyant displays of warmth and empathy seem almost like an obligatory feature of campaigning, Ms. Kennedy simply seems to prefer keeping her feelings to herself.
Reminiscent politically to that Prager theory of putting out, even when it’s counterintuitive to what you want. Don’t deny us your energies! The camera’s rolling! Show your creds!
Carved Up: Black Women and Bodily Integrity
Hi, I’m Sylvia. I’m new to the CFLF crowd, and my regular blogging spot is at Problem Chylde. I’m a black twentysomething going through the sweet hell that is law school. I’m rounding out the first semester of my third year after putting down the Publish button for a few months. I tend to blog when I am amused, pissed, or some unholy combination of both. I’m also a cute bubbly ray of sunshine and light. Like it? No? Too bad. Shut up and listen.
I have to spell this out for my fellow commentators in the United States. I hate speaking to people as if they are children; but I guess after the Don Imus situation the lesson did not take.
Do not, do not, do NOT reduce a black woman to her body parts. We are no longer on the auction block. We are no longer museum exhibits. If you deign to respect a black woman as a full human being, do not celebrate her accomplishments by pointing out the nappiness of her hair or the fullness of her booty.
I should have known better to expect something intelligent and proactive from Salon.com. Salon has disappointed me in the past with its commentaries on women’s bodies and its subtle alliances with misogyny. But Erin Aubry Kaplan’s ode to Michelle Obama’s backside has hit the rock bottom of the barrel.
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When Dreams Collide
I am in full agreement with Armando for once, and I mean that neither ironically nor sarcastically.
The Right’s Neurotic Addiction to War
Just to add on to Kyle’s piece about the Addicted to War crowd, their understanding of history is to laugh at. Take Jennifer Rubin’s rehash of the Great Cold War Myth:
The Stoning of Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Sad news today as Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman persecuted as the “D.C. Madam,” has committed suicide rather than face a lengthy, federal prison sentence (a possibility of up to 55 years though prosecutors described her likely sentence as no more than 6 years).
The whole sordid affair struck me as a modern-day replay of the biblical lesson set forth at John 8:2-11 (Let he who is without sin cast the first stone).
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