A montage of (mostly anti-Hillary Clinton) sexism in U.S. media coverage of the 2008 election (from the Women’s Media Center via Feministing):
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disgusting
and to think i wanted to leave the U.K and move to America…, that is hideous journalism on behalf of america. When that man said in response to the downsides of a female president “aside from PMS and moodswings…” my mouth literally fell open, disgusting
Can anything Bill O’Reilly says really be considerd as serious journalism?
I don’t even understand why they allow him on television.
I actually have trouble understanding some news channels in the US, being used to the CBC…
I do think this is an excellent demonstrations of the ways sexism have come to play in the campaign, but I have to say that little has offended me more, recently, than Hillary’s implication that she lost because she is a woman. Just as a woman should have the right to succeed on her own merits, she should also have the right - and the personal accountability - to fail on her own merits.
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