Women with Opinions

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Critiques the Christian Church

“For the supposed crimes of heresy and witchcraft, hundreds of women endured such persecutions and tortures that the most stolid historians are said to have wept in recording them; and no one can read them to-day but with a bleeding heart. And, as the Christian Church grew stronger, woman's fate grew more helpless. Even the Reformation and Protestantism brought no relief, the clergy being all along their most bitter persecutors, the inventors of the most infernal tortures.

McCain & Misogyny: Yikes!

Back when John McCain (R, Arizona) was running for president the first time, the Arizona Republic ran an editorial in which the paper  questioned whether McCain had the right temperament for the presidency.  Here's part of what was said in that editorial:

"If McCain is truly a serious contender for the presidency, it is time the rest of the nation learned about the John McCain we know in Arizona. There is also reason to seriously question whether he has the temperament, and the political approach and skills, we want in the next president of the United States."

Stop With the Misogyny Already

Change attitudes toward women

Sexism, the belief that the male sex is inherently superior, is alive and thriving in America.  Witness the treatment and coverage of Sen. Clinton in her quest to become the first woman elected to the presidency.

So now Hillary's a pimp, is she?

Those boys on MSNBC's Hardball love to go after Hillary, belittling and backbiting her any chance they get. At one point it got so bad,  Chris Mathews, the host of the show, was forced to apologize on camera for all the foul, misogynist things he's been saying about the Democratic presidential candidate from NY State.  Now one of Mathews' homeboys, David Shuster, who appears regularly on Hardball, has gotten himself in deep doo-doo for the same thing: unfairly bashing Hillary, this time on the MSNBC show Tucker.

You called me what!!

Memo to you guys over at rochesterturning.com.  Love your blog, but  stop with that calling Maggie Brooks "Saggy" Brooks.   It  may be cute to some guys.  Not so much to us womenfolks.  Stop it, right now, you hear!  Besides,  nicknames are so passe.   Bushy gave them a bad name.

Who's Sorry Now?

     Anyone familiar with the MSNBC show "Hardball" is no doubt  keenly aware of host Chris Matthews' penchant for misogynistic put downs of women in general and Hillary Clinton in particular.   Matthews' hate-laced comments about Hillary and other women  have been well documented by Media  Matters and other watchdog groups. 

    Well, the day after the New Hampshire primary, Matthews went a step too far.  That was when he made this   outrageous statement about Hillary:

    "The reason she's a U.S. Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That's how she got to be Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win it on the merits..."