I tend to follow this more within the blogosphere than within the mainstream media, and if anything the sexist attacks during the primary were even more freehanded.
OpenLeft tends to be more sober than many political blogs, and it's been a safe space for attacks to be called out.
Open Letter to Some Pond Scum "Dear Theoretically Liberal, Patriarchal Creeps," http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5896
Veepness Stakes: Securing the Clinton Bloc "Is it really a sexist argument that a woman should get bumped to the front of the job queue for consideration because she's younger and prettier? Yes." http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/6/7/232533/1521
Veepness Stakes: Please no Webb, DINOs "In spite of the fact that sexism has been such a prominent dynamic in this campaign, the thrust of much mainstream public conversation is that Obama should pick a Republican or conservative Democrat to balance the ticket. " http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/6/2/192249/5233
There has been a healing effort also, but it seems to have stalled after the second article. Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 2--1960s "The point of this series is to get at women's experience and the growth and development of feminist consciousness-and/or womanist consciousness as many women of color prefer." http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6163
I'm not altogether sure if the national conversation can occur in any one place, it seems to me that it might have to just occur everywhere at once.
Sexist language is like a poisoned flower that will grow back eventually, what we really have to do is challenge theories of gender and 'normal' assumptions about the dominance/submission culture that we're embedded in every day. I'm not sure that 'liberalism', classically stated, can handle it.
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Date: 2008-06-13 09:09 pm (UTC)OpenLeft tends to be more sober than many political blogs, and it's been a safe space for attacks to be called out.
Open Letter to Some Pond Scum
"Dear Theoretically Liberal, Patriarchal Creeps,"
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5896
Veepness Stakes: Securing the Clinton Bloc
"Is it really a sexist argument that a woman should get bumped to the front of the job queue for consideration because she's younger and prettier? Yes."
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/6/7/232533/1521
Veepness Stakes: Please no Webb, DINOs
"In spite of the fact that sexism has been such a prominent dynamic in this campaign, the thrust of much mainstream public conversation is that Obama should pick a Republican or conservative Democrat to balance the ticket. "
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/6/2/192249/5233
There has been a healing effort also, but it seems to have stalled after the second article.
Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 2--1960s
"The point of this series is to get at women's experience and the growth and development of feminist consciousness-and/or womanist consciousness as many women of color prefer."
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6163
I'm not altogether sure if the national conversation can occur in any one place, it seems to me that it might have to just occur everywhere at once.
Sexist language is like a poisoned flower that will grow back eventually, what we really have to do is challenge theories of gender and 'normal' assumptions about the dominance/submission culture that we're embedded in every day. I'm not sure that 'liberalism', classically stated, can handle it.