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Related: About this forumMy Tweet on Gender Bias Against Hillary Created an Instant Firestorm
Anyone who calls it out knows this: Sexism is the thing that shall not be named in 2016. I encountered that unspoken rule today.http://bluenationreview.com/my-tweet-on-gender-bias-against-hillary-created-an-instant-firestorm/
Please note that the "My" in the headline and "I" in the short blurb above do NOT refer to ME (I don't tweet) but rather to the author of the article at the link. Just sayin' ...
But I have had the same thing happen to me time and time again anytime I have mentioned the "unmentionable" double standard - and such firestorms have also happened here to me here on DU, although somewhat less since the Dem Convention.
Apparently, identifying the double standard against Hillary as gender-based is frowned upon in the elite (male) press.
Thats not surprising. Institutional gender bias is an accepted way of doing business, a prism through which the establishment sees the world. Of course theres no institutional gender bias against Hillary say the denizens of an institution (the media) that has helped block a woman from the White House for 227 years.
Im not accusing individual reporters of sexism or misogyny. Far from it. Many of them are my friends and they are well-meaning and hard-working people. Im talking about the national medias collective behavior, the mindset that allows for lopsided reporting like nothing weve ever seen.
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No other candidate gets the kind of obsessive, relentless, disdainful and disrespectful coverage than Hillary.
Thats not surprising. Institutional gender bias is an accepted way of doing business, a prism through which the establishment sees the world. Of course theres no institutional gender bias against Hillary say the denizens of an institution (the media) that has helped block a woman from the White House for 227 years.
Im not accusing individual reporters of sexism or misogyny. Far from it. Many of them are my friends and they are well-meaning and hard-working people. Im talking about the national medias collective behavior, the mindset that allows for lopsided reporting like nothing weve ever seen.
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No other candidate gets the kind of obsessive, relentless, disdainful and disrespectful coverage than Hillary.
I would differ somewhat with the author in one respect. The collective mindset that allows for lopsided reporting "like nothing we've ever seen" has also been at work since at least November 2008 with respect to Prez O. But that fact is that with Hillary, the lopsided reporting has been obsessive, relentless, disdainful and disrespectful since at least January 1993.
When these two candidates differ from ALL other nominees in the two major parties in one respect only (in Prez O's case, race; in Hillary's, gender), then it is clear that while stating the obvious may be frowned upon, that does not make it any LESS true.
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My Tweet on Gender Bias Against Hillary Created an Instant Firestorm (Original Post)
BlueMTexpat
Aug 2016
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riversedge
(73,030 posts)2. Great post. Thanks.
DemonGoddess
(5,108 posts)3. K&R!
sheshe2
(87,272 posts)4. K&R!
Peter Daou @peterdaou
Institutional gender bias is the reason NO WOMAN HAS EVER BEEN ELECTED POTUS. I'll proudly tell that truth while others bash me for it.
Peter Daou
@peterdaou
NOTE TO MEDIA INSIDERS: I'm not remotely interested in your approval. Bash me all you want. I'll call out gender bias every time I see it.
Peter Daou @peterdaou
The ONLY approval I seek in my unwavering advocacy for #Hillary is from the women and girls in my family whose future depends on it.
10:58 AM - 28 Aug 2016
*****Tweets from the link.
William769
(55,815 posts)5. kick & recommended.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)6. K&R