I’ve also been a reporter and I know firsthand what Couric was doing. So of course, does Brad, but he’s being paid to spin it and find stuff on Google. What an intellect. Meh.

Long ago, I said no more. It’s a life of poverty and leisure. (Oh no did I wink?). But I don’t have to work with the Brads anymore. Loathsome little turds devoid of ethics.

I have attempted to talk with a couple girlfriends about my frustration and have been met with blank stares and comments like, “oh, there isn’t any sexism occurring in the campaign.”…then I later find out they were Obama supporters (and presumably blinded by their more liberal views to see it).

As a last resort, I think “well, surely someone at NOW or another prominent feminist will sound the alarm” but then I am painfully reminded of how many of them have been exposed as frauds. They profess to fight for women’s rights, calling out anyone who dares to incite sexism into issues, or target a woman for her beliefs. Oh, they do…just as long as you are a liberal woman. If you’re not a liberal (pro-choice) woman, forget about it. To me, that makes them frauds. An organization that professes to be about women’s equality should be non-partisan, taking their political party hats off to adequately address the issue.

How many steps back has the feminist movement taken as a result of the incidents in this campaign? It’s been great to find this site and know that I am not alone in my frustration. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to vent.

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Thanks. What I am planning to do is end every e-mail with this signature:

“SHADOW” now . . . and “SHADOW” forever!

I hope to be able to start something that will at least cause conversation and, eventually, cause a change in people’s ways of thinking and talking about women.

Men are absolutely encouraged to join in this effort. After all, I am sure they don’t want their mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, aunts, grandmothers and granddaughters to be treated disrespectfully either.

As far as Barack’s “nuance”, make me laugh. He’s been pretty blatant and very, very one-sided about voter fraud, contempt for women and for those of us who work for a living. The main problem with Governor Palin is that she exposes Barack for the sleazy politician he is. No change there.

I wouldn’t get too carried away with Joe Biden’s concern for women. He is probably the single person most responsible for Clarence Thomas being on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Joe Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the senate was considering the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.

Biden was nasty to Anita Hill, who was the principal witness against Clarence Thomas. He also refused to allow a whole array of women, who were waiting in an adjacent room at the senate, to testify even though they had all come to tell their own stories of Clarence Thomas’s sexual harassment of them.

But Joe Biden would not allow it.

Clarence Thomas sits on the United States Supreme Court, today, largely because of Joe Biden’s actions.

“Stop Humiliation And Disparagement Of Women”

The short version is “SHADOW”

I don’t care how others may feel about Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin, this campaign season has turned my stomach and saddened my soul. Seemingly “nice” people have mocked both Clinton and Palin in the most disgusting and evidence-free ways — and for reasons unrelated to their effectiveness as public officials.

As Craig Crawford noted earlier in the campaign season, with regard to both President Clinton and Senator Clinton, “I really think the evidence-free bias against the Clintons in the media borders on mental illness.”

Crawford was right then, and his words apply even now to Senator Hillary Clinton and Gov. Sarah Palin.

Both of these women hold high and important political offices, yet they are treated daily to degrading and humiliating slurs and insults related to the fact they are women.

Just very recently, some man in West Hollywood got his jollies from hanging an effigy of Sarah Palin by a noose. Many people (both men and women) thought it was amusing and, so, the effigy remained in place for a week until the West Hollywood mayor persuaded the man to take it down.

On the other hand, an effigy of Barack Obama hung by a noose resulted in the arrest of the two young men who had put it up.

It was correct to arrest the men who put up the Obama effigy, but WHY was the hanging Sarah Palin considered humorous?

As a woman, I will tell you I was NOT amused — I was horrified and enraged.

As the Nazis learned and honed to perfection: first you humiliate some group, then you blame them for society’s woes, and then you can do anything you please to them — even beat or kill them — and no one will come to their aid.

Well, other disparaged groups have fought back and I am bewildered that no women (or very few women) have fought back against the organized and free-lance disparagement of Senator Clinton and Gov. Palin.

Well, every movement starts with a first step, and this will be my first step to

“Stop Humiliation And Disparagement Of Women”

“SHADOW” now . . . and “SHADOW” forever!