Is America Ready for a Woman President? Go to hell.

Not the biggest fan of The Huffington Post, but I liked this:

When people write, "Is America ready for a female president?" they need to know how insulting that is to women. These are the doubt planters. Tell 'em to go to hell. They're not asking, they're undermining. If you want to make someone feel unwell, don't say, "You look terrible", because he'll immediately bounce back with, "I feel fine!" But if you ASK, if you say, "Do you feel all right?" the doubt sets right in. "Why? Why do you ask? What's wrong?" That's what they're doing. "Is America READY for a woman president?" "Why? What's going to happen??"

Is America Ready for a Woman President? Go to hell.

Not the biggest fan of The Huffington Post, but I liked this:

When people write, "Is America ready for a female president?" they need to know how insulting that is to women. These are the doubt planters. Tell 'em to go to hell. They're not asking, they're undermining. If you want to make someone feel unwell, don't say, "You look terrible", because he'll immediately bounce back with, "I feel fine!" But if you ASK, if you say, "Do you feel all right?" the doubt sets right in. "Why? Why do you ask? What's wrong?" That's what they're doing. "Is America READY for a woman president?" "Why? What's going to happen??"

Another thing I'll be following

As a follow-up to the previous post...

How many times over the next two years will The Press inform us that Nancy Pelosi "scolded" the President, or Republican representatives, or any other group of mostly males on the Hill. Men castigate. Men yell. Men argue. But when it's a woman politico doing the castigating, I have often, if not always, seen it referred to as "scolding", with all the Mommy/Nanny "she never lets us have any fun" sticks-thumb-in-mouth-and-sulks that this implies. Not flattering to the woman, but is it any more flattering to the adult males who have been relegated to the status of playroom prankster who put the dead mouse in his little sister's bed?

"Nags". That's the other one. Because if she isn't scolding, she's nagging, and we all know what that means.

Bitch deserved it.

Another thing I'll be following

As a follow-up to the previous post...

How many times over the next two years will The Press inform us that Nancy Pelosi "scolded" the President, or Republican representatives, or any other group of mostly males on the Hill. Men castigate. Men yell. Men argue. But when it's a woman politico doing the castigating, I have often, if not always, seen it referred to as "scolding", with all the Mommy/Nanny "she never lets us have any fun" sticks-thumb-in-mouth-and-sulks that this implies. Not flattering to the woman, but is it any more flattering to the adult males who have been relegated to the status of playroom prankster who put the dead mouse in his little sister's bed?

"Nags". That's the other one. Because if she isn't scolding, she's nagging, and we all know what that means.

Bitch deserved it.

You know you're an SF reader

...when you read a post in another newsgroup entitled "jump drive help" and you wonder if they need assistance figuring out the physics for their spacecraft.

You know you're an SF reader

...when you read a post in another newsgroup entitled "jump drive help" and you wonder if they need assistance figuring out the physics for their spacecraft.