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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Suma who wrote (13881)3/5/2006 10:34:02 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541965
 
I must admit, I got mad at her for the baking cookies quip, and never forgave her (although I certainly don't hate her), but I also think the fact that she is a woman makes people fixate on her aggressiveness - and I don't know how much of the hate is due to the fact that she's a woman. Most people would deny they don't like her just because she is a powerful woman (most people aren't courageous enough to be honest in public about their prejudices)- so I think it would be hard to tell just how much of it is because she was a woman. You can see, if you look at powerful women- Reno, Hillary, Rice- that the abuse levelled at them with regard to their looks, their sexuality, and their relationship to men around them (usually sexualized), is of a different character than the abuse levelled at men.

It's one reason I think this country is nowhere near ready to elect a female president.
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