MEN DO GET WEARY...
Just like women
do, but it is acceptable, even laudable if a man looks tired. But
if a woman does not always look attractive and perky, she is maligned whether
she is famous, infamous or little known like the rest of us.
We see a tired woman
with a schedule that would exhaust any one of us but we know she will keep
it up, not only on the campaign but as president. Let her opponents slide
easily along on their past and their gender; we know how it feels to be
tired.
 You'll
see nary a comment or even a picture of a tired male candidate. They are
supposed to look the way they look. But
the paparazzi have long dogged Hillary to get pictures they can sell to
her opponents; as well as photoshopers for nasty things to run on You Tube.
There's lots of
joy in Media-Mudslinging-ville now that it has anointed Barack as the leader.
The giggles and guffaws of males and fembots in the hallways and around
the water coolers is because they think they "got the bitch".
Got a picture showing
her looking tired; sure that it would be all over the internet; sure that
Drudge would feature it and the media would pick it up and Maureen Dowd
would present it, and Limbaugh's words, in the NYTimes.
We know hardly anything
about Barack's past aside from what he has written about it, or how he
plans to do the lofty things he promises but to the media he fits the primo
qualifications.
He is always attractively
pictured and not only has been coddled by the media which just laughs at
his sexual and ageist slurs against his opponent but also is protected
from the searching examinations given the other candidates. The
discrimination isn't just gender driven, it's cultural and anatomical.
Competent journalists
like Mark Halperin and Howard Kurtz report that Clinton is under a harsher
microscope by the media. Clinton is under a harsher microscope by the media.
Paul Krugman recently
wrote: "According to a recent survey by the Project for Excellence
in Journalism, Mr. Obama's coverage has been far more favorable than that
of any other candidate."
"Hillary is
a woman. Get over it. You may like her views, her experience, her campaign
tactics, or you may not. That's legitimate. That's political discourse.
But to put up an unflattering photo of her on a well-read site like Drudge
for the purpose of showing that she's looking tired -- what's the point?
The point is an attack on women for not
looking perfect." -- Matt Littman http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-littman/hillary-and-jennifer-love_b_77158
.html
No nasty comments
were made on Giuliani's hour long laughter during a recent interview with
Russert. Some might call it a nervous laugh. But those in the media who
noted it at all called it "a good natured laugh".
In contrast,
media led by Petrified Ball's Matthews, constantly characterized Hillary's
laugh as a cackle. This is only one thing
he does in his intense support of any MAN who might attack her and make
her give up the race.
He constantly urged
Barack to go negative on Hillary and cheered when he did. But when Hillary
returned the favor in kind, Matthews became apoplectic with rage screaming
several times that Hillary was trying to kill Barack in the cradle. He
said Hillary was causing "sudden infant death."
Chris hates strong
women so fiercely that when AARadio's Rachel Maddow came on his program
and didn't present the prerequisite idiotic smile and say what he wanted
her to say, he was furious and blurted out, "How can you say that!
I'd like to waterboard you!"
Barack even got
to see his personal attacks against Hillary made a part of a Repug anti-Hillary
video -- nice going for a guy who is sweet
talking to screaming teenagers, hates the elderly and promises to bring
all people together.
Yet media mavens
and bloggers lament the fact that some prejudiced voters will not vote
for a Black man as president and how unfair it is that
even a few racial questions are reported about him. A favorite phrase they
use is, "aren't we a better country than that?"
They completely
ignore the prevalent and constant prejudice against women and
gladly amplify and glorify sexism in all its forms as a God-given right.
In the spirit
of the season, is this the message you want to leave to your daughters
-- a story of three wise men, an all
powerful King, his son and a
baby-incubator?
"Aren't
we a better country
than that?"
gapperserve-at-peoplepc.com
http://gendergappers.blogspot.com
2007-052
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2007 Renee T. Louise and Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D. These articles may be republished
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