the reason why we have such a “shockingly low” representation of women in government is that women are held to a different standard- not only for themselves, but also for their children.

I am troubled by the way the double standard with which our media treats female candidates.

This is a repeat of the propaganda war of the 1960s and 1970s against the Second Wave. In 2008, a woman ran for President then VP so the MSM and netroots were misogynist and then race-baited. Replace “black men” with Obama and Obama supporters and black women with former Clinton supporters in these three paragraphs:

Feminism has always striven to be inclusive. You can read the minutes of the New York radicals in 1968, the conversations white women were having with black women. Black women were very drawn to feminism, but they were in the midst of a civil rights struggle, too, and they felt like they needed to stay with that. Which of course they did; the civil rights movement was a great uprising of a people. Unlike feminism, which is immensely more complicated because it requires us to interrogate the fundamental structures of our own families.

At any rate, while black women were in sympathy with feminism, black MEN were not. The civil rights movement was notoriously patriarchal and sexist. Some of the first feminists I knew were black women who were in essence refugees from that movement, having learned to their heartbreak that black men had no interest in elevating women. Black men considered feminism a threat — both to their own patriarchal hegemony, and to their civil rights mythos of The Struggle of the Black Man. They accused white feminists of being racists who were trying to brainwash black women into hating their men. They accused black feminists of being race traitors.

It was ugly and mean and wrong, but you know what? Those fuckers won the propaganda war. Those assholes wrote the history books. And now young people actually believe that the Civil Rights movement was all sweetness and light and equality for all, while Second Wave feminists were white racists.

Just like in the 1960s and 1970s, all the focus is on racism and none on the misogyny underlying Clinton and Palin’s run for the Presidency and VP and the ensuing race-baiting.

For some historical and theoretical background, I recommend Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice as the problem and Michele Wallace’s Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Elaine Brown’s A Taste of Power and Angela Davis’ autobiography, which combine feminism and anti-racism, as the solution.

If you read Wallace and Brown’s accounts of the CRM, you will see the black patriarchs were 100% at fault, black women were 100% innocent.

Similarly, Obots are 100% guilty, former Clinton supporters are 100% innocent.

Like the last pargraph says, propaganda won and made the CRM sweetness and light and white women racists.

Similarly, the netroots and Obots are 100% guilty of misogyny and the ensuing race-baiting and former Clinton supporters 100% innocent, but their propaganda is the exact opposite.

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SYD