Hey Sweetie!
The NY Birdcage Liner:
Running Against Bachmann Poses Challenges for Male Rivals
Representative Michele Bachmann’s entry into the presidential race on Monday ensures one particular repeat of the 2008 campaign: another chance to test the impact of gender on American politics.
For the second time in four years, American voters will watch as a mostly male field of candidates engages, sometimes awkwardly and sometimes gingerly, with a female presidential candidate.
Already, there is evidence that those interactions are destined to produce memorable campaign moments like the one that forced Chris Wallace, the host of “Fox News Sunday,” to apologize for asking Mrs. Bachmann whether she is “a flake” on national television.
“Is this how Chris Wallace would ask the same question of a man?” asked his Fox News colleague, Greta Van Susteren, on her blog on Monday.
Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Bachmann will dare journalists and bloggers to cover her campaign the way they would cover a male candidate’s. And she will put before voters the ultimate question they ducked in 2008: Are they ready for a female president?
It’s really not that hard. When dealing with women candidates don’t pat them on the ass, don’t call them “sweetie” or other demeaning names, don’t use sexist epithets like “bitch” or “cunt” when referring to them, don’t be dismissive, patronizing or condescending, and otherwise treat them with the same respect you would want someone to treat your mother, wife or daughter.
Above all, don’t act like having a penis makes you better than them.
The real challenge is keeping your followers in line, especially if your name is Barack Obama.
The Crawdad Hole 
OT, but hurrah for sloped-forehead, redneck, awful, blue-collar Texans!!! This town is a tiny little red as red can be town:
There’s hope for us rednecks after all. ‘-) I never doubted for an instant that this would be the response of Texans. Thanks very much.
Yup. Most Texans, even the very religious ones, are mostly “mind your own damn business and be polite” sort of people.
I would be curious to know if any of the people who defended and supported the gay families are of the personal opinion that homosexuality is a form of immorality. Because as difficult as it is for some to wrap their heads around, those sort of people abound here. I.e. those who hold a (wrong in my view) religious belief that they will fight to the death for their right to maintain, yet have no problem whatsoever treating actual gay persons with respect and dignity. That sounds contradictory, but its not. You’d have to live here to understand.
It’s sort of like my very catholic aunt, who firmly believes that divorce for other than adultery or physical abuse is morally wrong. Yet she loves me, and was the most supportive person in the world to me when I went through a divorce-by-choice. I didn’t insist that she must give up her belief and enthusiatically validate my choice. She didn’t judge me. We just loved each other. People are much more complex than the labels we put on each other.
Honk, honk, honk.
Pathetico:
I find myself agreeing with John Cole:
Quit should also go for druggists who won’t fill a legal prescription.
Honk and honk and honk. Trifecta going on in this sub-discussion.
If you don’t want to do what you are paid for, you should get another job. That’s just common sense.
That would seem to make sense. If you have religious objections to things the job entails, find other employment. It would be like an Orthodox Jew or Muslim taking a job that entailed handling pork, and then refusing to do so. GET ANOTHER JOB.
Honk, honk.
Honk!!
That’s cute, leave ’em hanging.
That was a balk.
HuffPoop:
Pathetico:
Whew, that was close. I thought for a moment the first lady wasn’t a bigot like her husband.
Not a chance 😉
You are just excellent at the proper naming of our journalistic institutions, Myiq. Love it!
I can’t claim credit – I think it was RalphB
I stole it from Professor Jacobsen.
The evidence has been assembled: http://almostverbiage.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/michele-bachmann-and-vile-sexist-media/
Sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but it is at least on topic. 🙂
Good work!!!
Palin and Bachmann: A Very Good Problem for Republicans
Good story from someone who has been on winning campaigns in Iowa.
That’s the thing. If Palin runs, people may actually get to choose between two women who have a chance of being president for the first time in history. And to do it, you have to be a Republican primary voter.
Exactly. And that’s why I’ll be changing my registration from Independent to Republican when I update my address later this summer.
*gasp*
Not … the … dark side!!!!!!!!
🙂
(I am thinking of switching to GOP when SP formally announces.)
This is from Media Matters today. Note To Fox: Progressive Women Are Also Targets Of Media Sexism
WTF. Sure they may have defended Hillary in 07 when she was leading. But I don’t recall Media Matters calling anybody out for the hardcore Hillary bashing in 08, mostly from Progressives. Or for the hardcore Sarah bashing that followed.
What they really mean is “Conservative women are NEVER targets of media sexism.”
Idiots. Do they want Fox off the air or Fox to be more fair and balanced? It’s tough to do both.