Apparently, Obama has a habit of calling “people” “sweetie” according to MSNBC.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24643711/ He called to apologize to a female reporter whom he off-handedly dismissed and whom he called “sweetie.” He said he calls a lot of “people” “sweetie.” That probably doesn’t make Andrew Sullivan or Keith Olbermann uncomfortable, but I am guessing it got some odd looks when he was campaigning among the steel mill workers and coal miners, because, male and female, straight and gay, being called “sweetie” probably isn’t something they are all that comfortable with.
Hey, before you get all in a knot about what a feminazi I must be, let me just say that when grandpa calls me “sweetie” I don’t mind, but I think he has a lock on it. Strangers don’t get to do that. If it were one little boo-boo, OK. But see the video in my previous entry.
Women who want to ignore this, do so at your peril. Please, pretend this guy only hates Hillary Clinton because she is actually a bitch, whereas you are not. No. If Obama met you and you were running against him or disagreed with him about something, you would not be a bitch. He would still love ya, baby. Because you aren’t like Hillary the Nutcracker. You aren’t shrill or “like every man’s first wife.” No one will ever want to “take you behind the barn” or “take you into a room where only he comes out.” That won’t be you.
Here’s the thing. You’re never the target of discrimination or misogyny until you are. It happens one day, and you think you must be crazy. This has never happened before. Ergo, it can’t be happening now.
Misogyny is pervasive, as is racism, but it is different than racism too. Black people experience racism in frequent intervals that are noticeable and definable. For women of any color, sexism is harder to pinpoint, because part of what sexism includes is using words like “sweetie” which sounds nice until you realize you have just been blown off and not taken seriously. But it gets worse. The guy calling you sweetie, if he’s not your grandpa, thinks you have no brains, no business being where you are, but he has to put up with it, sigh. Until he doesn’t. And then you can’t get past the glass ceiling or the brick wall or the perception that you just didn’t do enough to help yourself.
Well, Hillary is no sweetie. She’s a nutcracker, a ball buster, the flip side of sweetie. And I would rather be like her, because truth be told, although the BOYZ in the DNC hate her, a lot more blue collar guys like her. They admire tough.
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Drumroll please for the list of losers now endorsing Obama: Dukakis, Edwards, Carter, Kerry, Kennedy, McGovern…with friends like these, who needs enemies.
Hillary Speaks! Obama is Silent! Why?
May 14, 2008
Listen to Hillary Clinton’s speech in Beijing while watching footage of the sexism wielded in this campaign.
When it happens to one woman, it happens to all of us. You may think you are not like Hillary Clinton, but ask yourself, do you think if you were running for president, or your daughter were, that this might be happening as well?
hūmārie 