Comments on: WOW! Variety censors, but Hollywood Reporter runs it…Hey Hollywood – time to learn about sexism!!!

By: The New Agenda » Blog Archive » How The New Agenda Helped to Shape the 2010 Election

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:43:04 +0000

[...] touched a national nerve. So much so that a conservative dad from California paid to have the op-ed reprinted in a full page ad in the Hollywood [...]

By: Member Alert: THIS IS OUR TIME : The New Agenda

Member Alert: THIS IS OUR TIME : The New Agenda — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:03:33 +0000

[...] The New Agenda’s President Amy Siskind was a leading voice around the Letterman/Palin episode through a 3 part, featured series in The Huffington Post – all 3 articles were among the “most viewed” and the “most commented”: Sexism Against Conservative Women is Still Sexism, Letterman Quietly Ushers in the Next Wave of Feminism, and As We Exhale, How We Reached the “Letterman Limit”. One new member from CA liked Amy’s first article so much that he paid to publish it as a 2-page ad in the Hollywood Reporter! [...]

By: Vidsweet

Vidsweet — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:53:12 +0000

Great ad! Some Hollywood folks really detest those Hollywood trade magazines, Variety & Hollywood Reporter due to their slanted coverage and spin b/c they are pro-moguls, anti-writers, unions, etc. You should mention this censorship to Nikki Finke at DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com, which is a big entertainment business blog. Nikki reveals all the shenanigans of these papers and she uncovers more facts than those loser papers.

Maybe Nikki will be sympathetic, and note the censorship. I don’t know. But she has a large readership (and they’re probably all liberals). If she notes this, more liberal elites will feel ashamed to discover themselves to be sexists.

By: Amy Siskind: As We Exhale, the Legacy of Letterman » A Couple Things » A couple things about politics, sports, travel, and other stuff.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:41:38 +0000

[...] — the second time with a message for all young women. And an entertainment executive took out a 2 page ad in the Hollywood Reporter to announce to Hollywood that Sexism Against Conservative Women is Still Sexism. The Next Wave [...]

By: Sexism Against Conservative Women… « The Rhetorican

Sexism Against Conservative Women… « The Rhetorican — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:53:16 +0000

[...] Sexism Against Conservative Women… June 21, 2009 Posted by Jehuda in Uncategorized. Tags: Entertainment, Film, media bias, News, Politics, TV trackback …is still sexism. [...]

By: sftexan

sftexan — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:01:30 +0000

When the women’s movement began, it was about equal opportunity and about making individual choices. At some point, NOW began to be about “reproductive” choices only, and at that point, began to be insulting to those women who did not/could not share their point of view and non-representative of most women. Ms. Siskind’s article reshapes what feminism should be about–equality of opportunity and freedom to make the individual choices that we as women make for ourselves and our families. Women who are front and center–as Governor Palin is– in the political arena can definitely be criticized for policy positions as long as those criticisms are true, of course. But that was NOT what was happening.

By: ProudTexan

ProudTexan — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:39:28 +0000

Courage! Thank you for your courage; if more people would stand up, things would be different.

Regarding Hannity, Rush, etc. attacking Hillary, I could be mistaken, but it seems to be they were attacking her ideology, not her family and certainly not her daughter. I did not see or hear them attacking her on a personal level.

What is wrong with so many of the women in Hollywood who go along with the attacks on other women? Have they sold their soul for money and fame? I find it hard to understand.

By: Des

Des — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:00:45 +0000

I really like and agree with the article. It’s unfortunate, however, that the link to the text goes to the Huffington Post (supposedly a bastion of reason and tolerance), where the vast majority of people not only feel it’s perfectly OK to attack a woman (or a child) based on her sexuality, they then attack the author as not being a “real woman” or a leader (because she’s actually defending ALL women and not just the ones who agree with the “correct” set of political beliefs).

The fact is, women will still be marginalized when they disagree with men (or even other women). I have a dear friend who is a flaming Liberal (so we NEVER talk politics). During the VP debate, I happened to check out a talkback she was hosting, and was disheartened to see her and her friends calling Palin vile anti-woman names, and even attacking her for having a mentally challenged child. As long as women decide it’s fine to attack other women this way, you can be sure that there will be plenty of men who are more than happy to do the same. Anyone who’s ever listened to Olbermann or Bill Maher (noted Palin bashers) knows that the first thing they like to do is attack her as a woman. That should tell you everything you need to know about both of them.

By: Judy Silver

Judy Silver — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:20:00 +0000

For those who want to read the text, click on the link in the italics section at the top of the page.

By: Gilby HI

Gilby HI — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:41:00 +0000

Thank you for not letting this Icon of american humor carry the torch for the lynch mob of the new century.
Hate is the new industry in Hollywood but it is not working at the box office.