Obama’s Plane Is Stocked With MAXIMum Sexist Magazines
By SusanUnPC on June 17, 2008 at 10:14 PM in Barack Obama, Misogyny, Sexism
This morning, in her story “Slack Like Me,” Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy introduced you to the New York Times article that depicts the somewhat dilatory (dare we say lazy?) presumptive candidate as far too similar to another infamous slacker, the current POTUS. Tucked away in that NYT article is this tidbit:
He is a careful reader of daily newspapers and magazines (titles from Foreign Affairs to Maxim are stocked on his campaign plane).
Maxim magazine? A title surely chosen to convey the lusty fantasy world its readers dream of — where all the men are big and brawny and where all the women are oiled, tanned, young, curvy supplicants to their all-powerful male rulers. As a woman, it was difficult to endure the rampant sexism during the primaries, including Barack Obama’s own sexist comments about Hillary — “I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she’s feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal” and “You challenge the status quo and suddenly the claws come out.”
How does a man like Barack Obama get the kind of mindset that makes him think it’s alright to make remarks like that against his female opponent? The mindset that reactively puts down any woman who aspires to be his true equal? Look at this screenshot of the home page of Obama’s favored reading material, with the drop-down (-to-your-knees) “GIRLS” menu. Not “WOMEN,” mind you, but “GIRLS” (click the image to see it full-size):
A “sex-positive,” “anti-porn” feminist blog takes on the magazine in “Maxim 100 things you need to know about women….”
Here is a sampler of that male mindset that was demonstrated in Obama’s sexist remarks about Hillary Clinton, and is rampant in Maxim magazine:
Maxim online have come up with one hundred things men need to know about women… I’ve picked out a few…
Number 87: “Your female co-workers are obsessed with the fact that on average they receive less pay than male counterparts–and the fact that they work less overtime and get pregnant is irrelevant to the discussion”
Oh pardon us for ‘getting’ pregnant and having to care for our children, while you guys do ‘constructive overtime’…like coming up with 100 things men should know about women…
Number 84: “Sixteen percent of American men have been with a prostitute—scientific proof most women are decent in bed”
So men have sex with prostitutes cos some women are shit in bed..? Maybe they can’t be bothered to have sex with nobs like you cos they prefer a night in with their vibrator..? Oh wait…that would make it more than 16%…
Number 62: “A British study claims a woman’s chances of getting married drop by 40 percent for every 16-point rise in her IQ. The same increase in IQ for a man boosted his chances of getting married by 35 percent”
So what you are saying is that the greater IQ a woman has, the more likely she is to realise that marriage aint all that it’s cracked up to be..?
Number 49: “They dream of one day peeing in a urinal”
Umm…are you aware of the female anatomy..? (Read more.)
Here’s the second screen at Maxim’s home page. It’s more of the same machismo / sexy “girls” / machismo / sexy “girls” / machismo / sexy “girls” :
That’s Obama’s fantasy world, apparently. Where all the women are objectified and always available.
It is a world that emphasizes a woman’s physical exterior as her primary quality.
Perhaps, on Father’s Day — instead of preaching in some “safe” church, lecturing other men on how to be better fathers, as his daughters sat silently in the pew (and looked bored out of their minds) — Mr. Obama should have started a small bonfire in his own backyard and burned those remnants of a chauvinistic culture that no father should wish his daughters, those two precious little girls, to have to live in.
, the basis for the Best Motion Picture Nominee (Golden Globes) starring Brad Pitt.
, the novel by John Le Carre, a new motion picture starring Gary Oldman and Colin Firth.
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