Via Corrente, this post from the Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford pretty much explains the use of the sexist dogwhistles (”Why would he say something like that deliberately? It doesn’t make sense!”)
Does it make sense now?
The corporate media and most Blacks with access to a mass public never seem to seriously examine the meaning of [...]

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From BTD:
FINEMAN: . . . [T]he problem that Hillary‘s got is in certain ways her whole candidacy is an act of ventriloquism from her husband. Or at least, some people view it that way. And Hillary isn‘t always known as the most authentic candidate that you‘ve ever seen that come down the pike, very calculating, [...]

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I suppose this means if I see a seriously wounded right-to-life extremist official in the street with no one else around, and my conscience tells me society would be better off without him, it’s perfectly okay for me not to call 911:
Pennsylvania: Sen. John Eichelberger (R) on Monday introduced a bill that would allow health [...]

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Talk about dog whistles! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s considered okay for a presidential candidate to talk this way about female opponents. After all, the only people it upsets are, you know, other broads:
“[OBAMA] I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she’s feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to [...]

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Yeah, I thought this Eugene Robinson column (in which he argues that of course the media isn’t guilty of covering Clinton differently from Obama!) was a tad disingenuous. So did Bob Somerby. Go read it all:
In the passage about Edwards, note the perfect gong-show logic when Robinson discusses the treatment of wardrobe and appearance. It [...]

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Before I went to bed last night, I was over at Echidne’s place, where I read this and this. And then I had the strangest dream. Hillary Clinton was the Wicked Witch of the West, and the Kossacks had crashed the gates to kill her .. and MoDo was there, and you, and you, and [...]

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We know, of course, that middle-aged white women no longer have a legitimate say in the Democratic party. But I thought this was interesting, anyway.

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Did you know that until we got our hands on Iraq, it was a modern, secular country where women felt free to live out their lives?
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion — some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; [...]

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Link:
“I remember once being on a search committee with several men, and the group told me that the woman with pants should be disqualified,” recalled Juliet Sallette, marketing director for LaBovick & LaBovick law firm, in an e-mail. “I couldn’t get over it. They felt that the fact that she wore pants stated that her [...]

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I had lunch with a co-worker today - a Republican who’s very passionate about politics, if not as informed as she thinks. (For one thing, she’s utterly convinced that Saddam had WMDs and funded the World Trade Center attack.) Nonetheless, she’s watching events somewhat closely, and she informed me today she was voting for Hillary [...]

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I wonder why these men who are so traumatized by abortion continue to affiliate with a political party that, when it literally comes to putting money where their mouth is, consistently chooses tax cuts for the wealthy instead of housing, day care and health care for the poor - you know, those things that make [...]

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On what far-flung planet does Anne Applebaum live? When she writes silly crap like this (which is almost all the time), I have to wonder why I don’t have a Washington Post column.
For one thing, feminists are fighting situations like this. Just because Applebaum can’t find a story about something on the NOW website doesn’t [...]

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I can’t figure out exactly what it is that I find so utterly offensive about this trend. You demand an expensive piece of jewelry for giving birth?
Maybe it’s the transactional, quid pro quo disconnectedness of it. Who knew? Apparently giving life to your child is like working a lot of overtime, and as a result [...]

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Alcohol:
Of course, the relationship between alcohol and rape is a bitter pill to swallow. On top of already shouldering all kinds of disproportionate social burdens, do women and girls have to revive the temperance movement in order to avoid sexual exploitation? The answer, according to the research, is: kind of. Instead of a movement aimed [...]

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Rivka over at Respectful of Otters gets into the Matt Yglesias female-blogger fray:
The cross-cultural comparisons suggests to me that the more women have reason to believe that their political opinions are valued, the more involved they are in politics. And that’s certainly supported by changes in political involvement as U.S. society becomes more egalitarian: the [...]

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