Female-on-female sexism? Sorry, I just can’t get my head around it.”

Then you don’t understand self-perpetuation either. And if you claim to understand anything about racism, thus sexism, then you certainly would have been educated in self-perpetuation.

Keep up with the conversation in the black community regarding self-perpetuation of racism, and you’ll have a half a chance at understanding how the same holds true about sexism when women attack women.

I have watched women tell my wife to be a good housewife and serve me well and be all that I need her to be. This is self-perpetuation.

I have watched women other than randi rhodes calling other women “skank hos’, “bitches” and “whores”. This is self-perpetuation.

I have watched women in power not give power to other women because they were women and would give that authority to men. This is self-perpetuation.

I hate the term self-hating because it misses the point. Better to assess the reality that it perpetuates the power trip.

If you can’t see how this is happening then I’d caution you about lecturing anyone on the topic.

And the excuse that Randi Rhodes meant “whore” in a way that meant ‘compromised your integrity for gain’…then i’ll introduce you to some white folks who excuse their racism by telling you there are blacks then there are ‘niggers’. This is a con game for the intellectually stunted and the morally corrupt.

Perhaps there comes a time when you have to just decide you don’t get to call people such a word that has been used to beat down people.

So according to you it’s an insult to call someone a prostitute, but it’s NOT an insult to say someone has no scruples?

Hmm.

Some moral code you have there.

Female-on-female sexism? Sorry, I just can’t get my head around it.

That’s b/c obviously you have nothing inside your head. You have no clue do you? You don’t even know the meaning of sexism.

So can a call you a *f—— whore* provided I campaign against McCain in the Fall?

Female-on-female sexism? Sorry, I just can’t get my head around it.

Sorry, no.

Sexism is treating people differently on the basis of gender where such treatment has no rational basis (an example of ‘rational basis’ would be not covering testicular exams under a single-with-no-dependents- women’s insurance policy.

If what you said was true, then Ann Coulter saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote isn’t sexist.

And as for it ‘being able to work’, having a member of the suppressed group express it gives cover to the oppressing group, making the “ism” more likely to be perpetuated.

You lose.

(Better luck next time.)

SR

Anything else?

You put it well. To me, all the Obammaniacs hyper shitting on Hillary only makes sense when one realizes BO isn’t a Dem at all, he just plays one on TV. To me, BO is plainly a Right Wing opertive….but what does that make the Dem Elite who endorsed him?

I want to scream.

“..Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign on Saturday repudiated a liberal talk show host’s description of Sen. John McCain as a warmonger, a comment made to an audience that Obama later addressed… Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement: “John McCain is not a warmonger and should not be described as such.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080405/ap_on_el_pr/obama_talk_radio_host

So it’s okay to call democratic women whores but heaven forbid you call the opposition a warmonger. That would be degrading and divisive.

Are you going to tell stupid “downscale” me that nobody in the Obama camp ever looks to see who’s posting at my.barackobama.com? Did the knife run away with the spoon yet?

I have an idea everyone. Plan a HILLARY event and see how well it works out for you on the Obama site.

And finally, A Fish Starts To Stink At The Head.

NORCAL LGBT for Obama
The Castro for Obama
San Franciso for Obama.

Nonsense. The event was sponsored solely by Bay Area radio station “green 960″, as is clearly noted in the event description you provided.

By way of further explanation, the website carries the subdomain name of “mybarackobama”, which should have tipped you off right away that this is merely a depository for obama supporters, and carries little or no content from the campaign itself. In fact, the TOS, as one might imagine, carries the explicit disclaimer that the Obama campaign does not endorse anything posted at the site.

In the same sense, you’re not held as endorsing any comment posted here, capische?

I have no doubt that if the webmaster removed the Randi Rhodes item from the site– as many have suggested or demanded here– those selfsame offendees would immediately accuse the Obama campaign of seeking to “disappear” the event– in order to minimize damage to the candidate.

In the end, the offense, if any, is solely that of Randi Rhodes, and not Obama.

I say “if any” because it’s been an awful long time since the word “whore” was confined to the single sense of one who performs sexual acts for money. A person without scruples will do. The fact that Randi said this in the course of what was essentially a standup comic role should give pause.

Some have raised the specter of sexism here, and I simply don’t know whether to laugh or lose my lunch. In order for sexism– and racism for that matter– to work, it has to be perpetrated by a member of a group in a position to enforce the epithet– in other words, in a white-male-dominated society, you kind of have to be a white male for the accusation to stick.

Female-on-female sexism? Sorry, I just can’t get my head around it.

Lastly, a reminder. If the Obama campaign is responsible for Randi’s statement, then you must concede that Hillary is to be held responsible for your statements, and each and every comment posted here.

That’d be silly, Larry.

Green960 is a ClearChannel Radio station. That’s the network that banned The Dixie Chicks from all their stations. It’s a FAR RIGHT WING radio network. Of course they support Obama in the primary. The Far Right doesn’t want to face Hillary in the GE.

They’ve spent 12 years trying to destroy her and her husband, and haven’t been able to get Hillary-Hate over about 40%. That makes it VERY difficult to persuade undecideds to hate her, so the Obama strategy works two ways for ClearChannel:
1) Get Obarry the nomination,
2) get Obomatrons to HATE HILLARY.

That’s their game, and the Tools are playing along merrily.