Another thing I'll be following
Feb. 7th, 2007 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithAs 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.
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.
