While Decrying Sexism, Try Not to Add More
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 01/06/2012
When defining sexism committed against Michele Bachmann, it'd be best not to call her ugly and mouthy. Read more »
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Don’t Let the Glass Ceiling Hit You on the Way Out
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 01/04/2012
After Congresswoman Michele Bachmann announced today that she would be suspending her presidential campaign, the Washington Post has written the first in what will surely be a long line of vaguely sexist articles about what the Congresswoman did wrong in Iowa. Read more »
The Year in Political Media Sexism
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 12/23/2011
“Bit of a heifer,” “Dumb twat,” “Great masturbation material.” These were just some of terms hurled at women politicians in 2011. Read more »
Compare and Contrast
Posted by support on 12/19/2011
Based on these two photos for stories about Massachusetts’s senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren, can you tell which paper is rooting against her? Read more »
Washington Post on Nikki Haley: She Dresses Like a “Real Housewife”
Posted by support on 12/16/2011
The Washington Post describes a governor in terms of her appearance, questions her experience in ways often reserved for women, and congratulates her for refusal to acknowledge that sexist language is bad. What's wrong with this picture? Read more »
What Will It Take To Make A Woman President? How About Less Sexism?
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 12/15/2011
Jane Fonda gives a shout out to the Name It. Change It. project. Read more »
An Exercise in Contradiction: Bachmann’s “Ladylike Toughness”
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 12/13/2011
Author Sarah Kaufman delivers a wide variety of sexist remarks in yesterday’s Washington Post profile of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Her main point? Bachmann’s views are unwavering and inflexible, which contradict her prim and proper outward appearance. Kaufman seems to say that if Bachmann dresses like a lady, she needs to act like one too—or risk driving away potential voters. Read more »
The Best of Intentions
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 12/13/2011
You know when somebody has good intentions but their message just comes out all wrong? That’s what happened recently in an article in the Canadian journal, The Globe and Mail, entitled “Confident Rookie MP one of a New Breed of Tory Women.” What’s so frustrating is that the article is meant to highlight and praise the outspokenness of several new women members of parliament like Michelle Rempel, yet only six short sentences in, the author uses sexist language to describe Rempel's appearance. Read more »
HuffPo Style Crosses the Line: Bachmann Isn’t “Barbie”
Posted by support on 12/07/2011
Huffington Post Style tells Michele Bachmann she's gain voters if she dropped her neckline. Read more »
HuffPo Style Sexism, Take 182
Posted by support on 12/05/2011
Huffington Post Style continues to be amazed that Michele Bachmann wears makeup and Hillary Clinton wears clothes. Read more »
Breaking News: Congresswoman Bachmann Wears Make-Up
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 11/23/2011
All seven of her fellow (male!) candidates presumably spent just as much in the makeup chair last night, so why is Congresswoman Bachmann being singled out? Read more »
Late Night Sexism with Jimmy Fallon
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 11/22/2011
This week, presidential hopeful and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (MN-06) was a guest on NBC's ?Late Night with Jimmy Fallon?. In an attempt to be "snarky," The Roots, Fallon?s house band, chose to play Fishbone?s song ?Lyin Ass Bitch? as Congresswoman Bachmann crossed the stage. Read more »
Tabloid Tactics from 60 Minutes
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 11/18/2011
In a recent segment accusing members of Congress of using their political influence for personal profit, 60 Minutes felt the need to show footage of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wearing an evening gown - while the male members of Congress in the segment were shown wearing business suits. Read more »
Not OK Then, Not OK Now
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 11/17/2011
In Ed Kilgore's recent article for NPR about GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, he referred to U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as ?Princess Nancy.? The gratuitous inclusion of Herman Cain?s now infamous sexist moniker for Pelosi is extremely disappointing, particularly from an esteemed organization like NPR. Read more »
Diplomatic Relations are Not Romantic Relations
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 11/17/2011
Why is it that when female world leaders meet with their male counterparts, newspapers imply that there also romantic relations at play? Read more »
What if Huffington Post Had Existed in 1996?
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 11/17/2011
Hillary Clinton goes to Thailand and Huffington Post talks about her hair clip. Read more »
But What Color are Scott Brown?s Eyes?
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 11/16/2011
New York Magazine helpfully describes for the its readers what Elizabeth Warren looks like and dresses as. Read more »
Compare and Contrast: TPM and Huffington Post Style
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 11/15/2011
Let's compare how two separate outlets treated a video featuring Hillary Clinton. Read more »
What Is Noteworthy About Bachmann’s Pearls: Nothing
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 11/14/2011
Once again Huffington Post Style feels the need to do a Monday morning fashion review of Michele Bachmann's debate wardrobe. Read more »
Boston is Not New Orleans and Ayanna Pressley is Not Blanche DuBois
Posted by Kate McCarthy on 11/10/2011
To the Boston Herald Ayanna Pressley is Blanche DuBois and only won her race because of "kind strangers" and "editorial writers." Read more »