Politic USA is recruiting.
If you are really a smartass, you might even be invited to join the mostly white and predominantly male Journ-0-lists.
And.... if you really pander, Obama's advisors may reward you with an invite to the White House.
Though many PUMAs knew what was happening as early as the Democratic Caucus in Iowa ... and many Palin supporters got a clue after John McCain announced Sarah, in Ohio.... the whole truth about the smear campaign against two competent and intelligent women candidates for the White House is yet to be told.
REAL Feminists are all ears!
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Being forced to hang out with a bunch of shitstain males who think they're the smartest guys in the room was why I left graduate school.
ReplyDeleteI hear ya, Janis. And I can't imagine a worse fate.....
ReplyDeleteWhich might just be another reason why Academic Women leaders are MIA:
http://bit.ly/9HPQsl
It's more that than anything else, I think. It's not that women's lives are this, women's lives are that, women's values are this or that ... it's that the young men in graduate programs are fucking hateful assholes. It's to the point where if you are ambitious and want to be effective, you just cannot be in that environment. I went into industry, where I could be effective, implement my ideas, and at least have employment regulations on my side when people put up porno posters in their offices (which strangely enough, no one has done in corporate).
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about what was done to Sarah Palin and Hillary. What it is is sexual harassment on a national scale. Sexual harassment at work means creating a hostile work place and an uneven playing field.
ReplyDeleteIt's shame that not all feminists are willing to view it that way. If a woman was being harassed at work I wouldn't ask what her politics are, question how she's raising her kids, etc. It's quite simple, she's being treated unfairly by an unjust system and her personal beliefs are irrelevant.
If feminists, I mean left leaning ones, would just agree on that one point, I'd be happy, but they just can't seem to do it. They view Palin and even Hillary still, as women that must be knocked down and kept in their place. Needless to say, a few decades of knocking down every women who isn't perfect in every feminist's eyes has not served us well.
Yttik, I would be happy to make you happy on that point , because I absolutely agree that what was done to Hillary and Sarah was sexual harassment , but it is nice to see that perspective acknowledged more widely !
ReplyDeleteHey, SYD and friends,
ReplyDeleteThis article about Hillary at the Philadelphia Inquirer will warm your hearts:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20100728_The_persistence_of_Hillary.html#comments
Wolf Blitzer turned red when he played on the situation
ReplyDeleteThis video will live long in infamy …it belongs in the mortification hall of fame it is sooo bad , I think they used parts of the Ewoks costumes from a Star Wars convention
Swanspirit.... I think maybe you intended to post this elsewhere in my blog? Not sure....
ReplyDeleteNice to see you here!
Yes it was supposed to go under the Emily's list post ..so sorry .. and I always read your blog , even if I don't post ...
ReplyDeleteHow did Paul Krugman get on the Journolist? He was a strong supporter of Hillary throughout the primary.
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