Ann points us to Marie Cocco’s column.
As the Democratic nomination contest slouches toward a close, it’s time to take stock of what I will not miss.
I will not miss seeing advertisements for T-shirts that bear the slogan “Bros before Hos.” The shirts depict Barack Obama (the Bro) and Hillary Clinton (the Ho) and are widely sold on the Internet.
I will not miss walking past airport concessions selling the Hillary Nutcracker, a device in which a pantsuit-clad Clinton doll opens her legs to reveal stainless-steel thighs that, well, bust nuts. I won’t miss television and newspaper stories that make light of the novelty item.
I won’t miss episodes like the one in which liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes called Clinton a “big [expletive] whore” and said the same about former vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro. Rhodes was appearing at an event sponsored by a San Francisco radio station, before an audience of appreciative Obama supporters — one of whom had promoted the evening on the presumptive Democratic nominee’s official campaign Web site.
[...]Most of all, I will not miss the silence.
I will not miss the deafening, depressing silence of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean or other leading Democrats, who to my knowledge (with the exception of Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland) haven’t publicly uttered a word of outrage at the unrelenting, sex-based hate that has been hurled at a former first lady and two-term senator from New York. Among those holding their tongues are hundreds of Democrats for whom Clinton has campaigned and raised millions of dollars. Don Imus endured more public ire from the political class when he insulted the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
Let me add this, I will not miss the passes Obama gets for his own subtle sexist remarks, whether directed towards Hillary or a reporter (on the same day NARAL gives him their endorsement) by the media and his own supporters.
Misogyny prevails in this country. We as women must organize to see that a travesty such as this primary election never happens again. No one except Senator Clinton with her unrelentless tenacity could have taken all the abuse from media, from so called comedians et al and still be standing tall. Her energy is monumental and she has fought every day for every one of us. If indeed she loses, we have sexism and the unfair media to blame. It is still and IF. It isn’t over until it is over.
I helped create the “Mad is Hell”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcdnlNZg2iM
video along with IndyRobin.
I created a NEW VIDEO: “We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke64670GkZ8
It’s about Obama’s silence on sexism against Hillary Clinton and his own sexist remarks.
If you approve of the video, I’d appreciate your help in spreading the video by creating a new post on the video on your site and ask that you and your readers go to youtube to RATE, COMMENT & mark FAVORITE the video.
Thanks.
Nicki, I agree. The latest sweetie remark just through me over the edge. After the “sweetie” remark there is the remark by one of his entourage, “that’s it guys.” Words are extremely important.
Are people really wearing such tee-shirts as mentioned??? We are a sometimes crass and uncultured society! Words are indeed important as they represent concepts and this is bordering on some scary concepts. Thanks for the psot