A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other "I musta made a wrong toin at Al-buh-KOY-kee"

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but I am dismayed that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was marred by sexist ridicule. How many times do I read about her likelihood of undermining Barack Obama if she were to work alongside him?
How many times did I read of her “shrill” voice, her “cackle” of a laugh, the girth of her thighs, her poor fashion sense, and worst of all, her “fake weeping” which she used as a “ploy” to gain sympathy votes? (Except that there were a some men who insisted that her “weeping” was genuine, and as such, a good indication of her emotional instability.)

Jun 06, 2008, 03:04PM PDT | 5 cheers


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Jun 06, 2008, 05:10PM PDT

A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other "I musta made a wrong toin at Al-buh-KOY-kee"

I agree! (But I don't get to vote)

I too hoped she’d pull it off, for the same reason.
It disappoints me that some people still resort to it. Enough time hasn’t passed! Even now I read that Hillary “played the sexism card”. It
is …disappointing.

Jun 06, 2008, 05:54PM PDT | Respond to this

A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other "I musta made a wrong toin at Al-buh-KOY-kee"

I agree! (But I don't get to vote)

I too hoped she’d pull it off, for the same reason.
It disappoints me that some people still resort to it. Enough time hasn’t passed! Even now I read that Hillary “played the sexism card”. It
is …disappointing.

That is some interesting avatar…too bad the title’s cut off! I like it!

Jun 06, 2008, 05:56PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

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Jun 07, 2008, 12:40PM PDT

A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other "I musta made a wrong toin at Al-buh-KOY-kee"

I trust

that you and I are in sync on this vote, so go ahead and do what I would do.
(Sunglasses optional.)

Jun 07, 2008, 08:39PM PDT | Respond to this

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Jul 27, 2008, 01:10PM PDT

Kalibebti all familyed out

Yes, and what do we do about it? That's what I want to know.

Yes…and don’t forget “strident.”

Here’s the question that makes me see red and which two men I once respected have now put to me with quite similar and similarly sickening airs of disingenuousness, in the context of my charges of media/societal sexism having defeated Clinton’s campaign:

“But don’t you think that it’s the antifeminist women who are the REAL problem?”

It’s such a misogynist thing to say that it was a great effort for me not to be incredibly rude on the spot and demand to know why on earth the person was simply trying to personally insult me, I mean did he really propose that I take that outrageous question seriously. Instead, fortunately, each time I managed to say in a rather more long-winded way, “No. No, as a matter of fact I don’t.”

I think misogyny should be classified as a clinically diagnosable mental disorder and treated as such.

Aug 18, 2008, 10:42PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other "I musta made a wrong toin at Al-buh-KOY-kee"

What I am doing about it

is going on about it ad infinitum.

Your rejoinder was perfect.

Someone I knew and hired in a professional capacity disagreed with me not too long ago over something, turned to the other man in the room and said, sotto voce: “We never should have given them the vote.”

The other man in the room said…nothing. Laughed quietly. (Tacit acceptance.)

It is vaguely interesting to note the strength in numbers that misogyny seems to require.
I would suggest respectfully to men that if you are offended by one or some amongst you who engage you to accept, tacitly or otherwise, clear-cut misogyny: speak out!

Aug 18, 2008, 11:05PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

Kalibebti all familyed out

What a pair of evolutionary throwbacks.

(How) did you respond?

Aug 19, 2008, 12:38AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other "I musta made a wrong toin at Al-buh-KOY-kee"

At the time

I said nothing. (I was behind the 8-ball timewise and needed my corporate taxes done.)
Later I used the experience (and still do) as a piece of ‘dire la verite’ when I run into people who believe the dinosaurs are extinct.

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Aug 19, 2008, 10:12AM PDT


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