Comments on: CNN Anchor: Palin Playing the Victim; “Clintonian”

By: valentina Concord

valentina Concord — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:41:16 +0000

Actually Andrea ( who posted July 18 , 2:18 am)

I am amazed at how you don’t see how your statement:

“Yes, there is a horrible sexist bias in the media. Yes, Sanchez’s remarks are despicable.But let’s face it: Palin deserves it.”

reflects your internalization of the typical abuser, “wrong, but she deserves it”

It was the same argument used in this political season: it was wrong to use sexism against Hillary and Palin, but the mysoginists convinced even a great number of women, that they deserved it.

They make girls internalize this since we are little “he pulled your hair because he likes you”.

By: valentina Concord

valentina Concord — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:31:11 +0000

Andrea,

You represent the paleo-feminism, which wants to use the stick to put us all women in one place, and march to your orders. Your feminism is no better than the patriarchy, and as we’ve seen in this election and others, it has not advanced women’s issues, other than abortion. That is not the only issue we care about, nor the only important one. Actually, your feminism has turned out to be an arm of the patriarchy.

We all think differently, and we don’t have to hit each other, as you are doing with Palin. We just have to be civilized enough to learn what we can agree with each other to advance women’s rights and positions in power. We don’t want to go back (to paleo-feminist politics), we want to go forward… can’t you see that?

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:18:09 +0000

Yes, there is a horrible sexist bias in the media. Yes, Sanchez’s remarks are despicable.

But let’s face it: Palin deserves it. As a woman, I feel totally ashamed by her. If we continue to allow these empty-headed but opinionated bimbos to represent us, it’s no wonder the world and the country won’t take us seriously.

Any decent feminist should denounce Palin’s retrograde rhetoric. But of course, most women here will see gender above substance, and will try to defend her above anything.

Reading this article and the comments makes me wonder if, after all, we, as a gender, may be ultimately to blame for gender inequality.

Shame on all of you.

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By: mSakel

mSakel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:49:39 +0000

Gosh, Virginia, There is no Sexism!
Thanks, sweetie! Now, you can bring out that darling little burqua you bought from Hussein, hon. Looks great on ya!

Periodically, Virginia feels ‘down and starts launching attacks against ‘her’ own gender….to boost her macho appeal.

By: Virginia Denton

Virginia Denton — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:50:17 +0000

I think its interesting how feminists condemn male traits in men,but are all too happy to see them instilled in women.I wish women had the good sense to see that feminism is the real enemy of women and society,not men and male traits.Briar,we dont live in a male-centric social culture,we live in a female-centric social culture.And guess what? It has brought none of those utopian qualities you speak of.In fact,the more we include and revere women,the more unbearable our society becomes.

By: Briar

Briar — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:51:16 +0000

Having just heard a “feminist” and lesbian who works for CNN blame Palin for having too thin a skin and for going into the kitchen when she couldn’t stand the heat (though she admits the attacks were atrocious) I think the fight is against something more than fear of women. It is against an overwhelmingly male centric social culture which reveres cruelty, offensiveness and violence, emotional, verbal and physical. It needs to be opposed and replaced by a more female-centric culture, one that admires empathy, compassion, inclusiveness, tolerance – all the things that we pride ourselves on exhibiting, but fail to actually apply to real life relationships. I am beyond disgusted by this assumption that having a thick skin and cohones are prerequisites for playing a part in our communities. So every civilised and gentle soul must be disenfranchised so that the brutes may strut the earth and bray? No wonder democracy is dying.

By: Afrocity

Afrocity — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:02:32 +0000

Sanchez is a murderer. A drunk driver who killed someone and he got away with it.

By: Blaine

Blaine — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:14:26 +0000

I’ve not posted here in AGES but watch and read often. Our Boyz Club Member, CNN’s Rick Sanchez, has a little history of his own he would like people to forget (from Wiki, and a lot more can be found on the web:

Accident/DUI

On December 10, 1990, Sanchez left the scene after striking a pedestrian, Jeffrey Smuzinick, with his car on a residential street near Dolphin Stadium. Smuzinick was paralyzed and eventually died from his injuries in 1995. Sanchez, who had just left an NFL football game with his father (and left the scene of the accident), was not charged with causing the accident, but was charged with and pleaded no contest to DUI.

Sanchez, whom a Metro-Dade police officer said “smelled strongly of alcohol,” first stopped his car but then later left the scene. A blood test to determine Sanchez’s sobriety was not administered until an hour and fifteen minutes after the collision. Though Sanchez says he tried to aid Smuzinick at the scene of the accident and flag down motorists, eyewitnesses claim the anchorman ignored the injured man and loudly told police and bystanders that blood tests were pointless, and would hurt his public image.

Miami New Times News
August 7, 1991
By Sean Rowe
The Forgotten Man

Now you know.

By: goesh

goesh — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:41:10 +0000

- it sure takes so many pundits to say the same thing about a woman they find so damn threatening, there is a subtle nuance of fear about them all