Comments on: Michelle = Hillary? You Be the Judge http://workitmom.com/bloggers/punditmom/2008/02/25/michelle-hillary-you-be-the-judge/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:55:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Daisy http://workitmom.com/bloggers/punditmom/2008/02/25/michelle-hillary-you-be-the-judge/#comment-354 Daisy Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:00:12 +0000 http://workitmom.com/bloggers/punditmom/2008/02/25/michelle-hillary-you-be-the-judge/#comment-354 "...we’ll be OK making our minds up for ourselves" -- well said. Give me the facts: don't tell me what to think. I can interpret for myself. “…we’ll be OK making our minds up for ourselves” — well said. Give me the facts: don’t tell me what to think. I can interpret for myself.

]]> By: Jules http://workitmom.com/bloggers/punditmom/2008/02/25/michelle-hillary-you-be-the-judge/#comment-326 Jules Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:49:59 +0000 http://workitmom.com/bloggers/punditmom/2008/02/25/michelle-hillary-you-be-the-judge/#comment-326 PunditMom, Don't even get me started on this one. I happily spent $$ last night to go hear Hillary speak in Boston. I was fairly indifferent to her candidacy until I started seeing the blatant sexism. I agree with Billie Jean King when she recently said something like, "I feel like I am seeing my life flash before my eyes. To see a committed, experienced and capable woman with decades of service being wiped out by a cute young guy." On the Michelle thing, it's just not that complicated. Race. Been reading lots of research lately supporting the view that racism is malleable, but sexism is not. ie. people can overcome racism in individual cases, but they cannot overcome sexism. I know that comment applies more to Barack, being a man, than to Michelle. But it's a factor here, and white guilt in the media too. We've all been trained to be PC when it comes to race (thank God--would not want it any other way) but not when it comes to gender. PunditMom,
Don’t even get me started on this one. I happily spent $$ last night to go hear Hillary speak in Boston. I was fairly indifferent to her candidacy until I started seeing the blatant sexism. I agree with Billie Jean King when she recently said something like, “I feel like I am seeing my life flash before my eyes. To see a committed, experienced and capable woman with decades of service being wiped out by a cute young guy.”

On the Michelle thing, it’s just not that complicated. Race. Been reading lots of research lately supporting the view that racism is malleable, but sexism is not. ie. people can overcome racism in individual cases, but they cannot overcome sexism.
I know that comment applies more to Barack, being a man, than to Michelle. But it’s a factor here, and white guilt in the media too. We’ve all been trained to be PC when it comes to race (thank God–would not want it any other way) but not when it comes to gender.

]]> By: PunditMom http://workitmom.com/bloggers/punditmom/2008/02/25/michelle-hillary-you-be-the-judge/#comment-325 PunditMom Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:27:43 +0000 http://workitmom.com/bloggers/punditmom/2008/02/25/michelle-hillary-you-be-the-judge/#comment-325 Diane, I've been reading posts at other blogs about this very thought -- and I've been thinking about it since I wrote this post last nite -- and I think you're right. For better or worse, the media doesn't mind if we think they're sexist, but they don't want to be seen as racist, even when critique might be fair. Diane, I’ve been reading posts at other blogs about this very thought — and I’ve been thinking about it since I wrote this post last nite — and I think you’re right. For better or worse, the media doesn’t mind if we think they’re sexist, but they don’t want to be seen as racist, even when critique might be fair.

]]> By: Diane http://workitmom.com/bloggers/punditmom/2008/02/25/michelle-hillary-you-be-the-judge/#comment-324 Diane Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:03:20 +0000 http://workitmom.com/bloggers/punditmom/2008/02/25/michelle-hillary-you-be-the-judge/#comment-324 Great observations. It just continues to get The upside is that if Obama gets the nomination, the media love affair with his wife will really help the Democrats. You don't mention race as an issue. Why? Seems to me that's a pretty obvious reason Michelle Obama has escaped these types of scathing attacks (so far). Unlike, say, Elizabeth Edwards. Is it not fair to say that journalists/pundits temper their comments about her because they are afraid they'll be perceived as racist? Great observations. It just continues to get The upside is that if Obama gets the nomination, the media love affair with his wife will really help the Democrats.

You don’t mention race as an issue. Why? Seems to me that’s a pretty obvious reason Michelle Obama has escaped these types of scathing attacks (so far). Unlike, say, Elizabeth Edwards. Is it not fair to say that journalists/pundits temper their comments about her because they are afraid they’ll be perceived as racist?

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