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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Constant Reader who wrote (7554)	11/26/2000 1:54:17 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 10042

Another disturbing aspect of this entire process has been the public disparagement of women in positions of authority. Harris is definitely in the hot seat and I certainly think the criticism has been too loud and too nasty. I tune out a lot of the rhetoric in the news. I find most of the stimuli in the world too loud and too nasty to expose myself to more political rhetoric than I have to. In my limited exposure, I have not noticed a sexist tone in the rhetoric. I logged too many hours in the women's rights trenches to let that stuff pass. I had noticed that there were a number of prominent roles played by women and that they were taking heat. I was treating it as good news that they were there and that their critics weren't pulling their punches because they were women. That would mean that women have finally arrived. Now that you raise the issue, though, I will listen more closely to the tenor of the criticism of Harris and other prominent women. Karen