Comments on: Sexism Might Sell, But We’re Not Buying It

By: Famakiw

Famakiw — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:56:41 +0000

Cool design, great info!

By: Dorothy M.

Dorothy M. — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:20:01 +0000

You dont know how absolutely delighted & relieved I am to find Womens Media Center. I don’t know many feminist women & I was thinking I was alone in my fury. I watched TV for hours during the campaine & the Hillary bashing I saw was criminal. I felt all the horrible put-downs as if they were said to me directly. As soon as I could I turned MSNBC & CNN off & they will continue to be off for the duration. I am sick about the way things turned out. I’m 85 & I may not ever see a female President of the United States (unless Hillary runs again in 4 years- – -I might make it). I’ve been a feminist always. I became active in the 60’s & marched a couple of times. If I had the evergy I’d like to march again in August!! I thought Hillary would get all the women’s votes & we’d have an easy win but the young ones seem to be going over to the male side. Wonder what they’re being told in the College class rooms? Thank you for taking action on the media. I was frustrated as hell!!! Go girl.

By: M.B. Kaufman

M.B. Kaufman — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:54:23 +0000

Dear All,

I hope that others sign the petition. I write as an International Baccalaureate teacher in Beijing, China. An American citizen, I am encouraged by the strides toward social justice that I see in my students on a daily basis. Best of health to all!

Sincerely,

M.B. Kaufman

By: Deann

Deann — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:09:33 +0000

As a woman, educator, and feminist…I was appauled by these clips. I’m concerned for the next generation.
If we are to ever see change It must come organically from the young woman and girls of our society. As a society we have taken several steps backwards. The media is exploiting the “female”once again. Yet, our society allows for these explicit examples of sexism, and ageism. It’s as though the world is at war with the female once again!!! What’s next ..more salem witch trials???? My prayer is for the next generation of woman and girls to nurture the values of the feminist ideals once held so dear by our feminist pioneers. It’s our responsibilty to teach them. I don’t think they really understand the fight that was faught on their behalf. The young ones don’t have anyone inspiring & empowering them to mobilize and act!

By: Janice

Janice — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:44:07 +0000

I couldn’t even finish watching it. It didn’t interest me at all. It just turned me off.

By: B. Louise

B. Louise — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:49:45 +0000

Women’s Media Center 6-19-08:

In 1776, Abigail Adams wrote her husband: “…by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” Despite her pleas, it was 144 years after the Declaration of Independence that women were even given the right to vote.

Also, Madeleine Albright said it right that “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” It’s way past time that women, instead of the Supreme Court, decide for themselves the fate of their own bodies, just as men have always done. It’s time women earned the same pay as men for doing the same work in this 21st century and the Equal Rights Amendment should be reintroduced. More attention needs to be paid to solving the problems girls and women face every day in America, including the rapes, battering, stalking, harassment, abductions and murders, etc., with no hint of blaming the victim.

Maybe an Abigail Adams movement would be appropriate with updates about TV news media sexist remarks and slants and the names of the sponsors of the shows, along with petitions for women and men to sign regarding various issues. Perhaps a gentle but firm “rebellion” against the “tyrants” is now in order through the awesome power of public opinion.

By: M. Delano

M. Delano — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:36:00 +0000

Excellent, provoking video. I am going to show it to several of those who have told me they had not observed sexism or misogyny from the media during the 2008 campaign.

I attended yesterday’s conference at the Paley Center and was impressed with both moderators and panels. I look forward to working together to hold media accountable and eradicating sexism, racism and ageism in the near future.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:29:17 +0000

The campaign certainly brought out the young vote which is good. However, their reasoning was lame when they “liked Obama’s message.” As one young person said to me: “During my voting life I have only had the choice to vote for a Clinton or a Bush in the main election. I want to vote for someone else!” How self centered and self serving can that be! Yes, they do take for granted what it took for them to have their rights as a women. However, they have a long fight ahead. They need to get into politics and run a city or a state and see what it takes. And be on the receiving end of the comments when they try to succeed. Bravo for our brave political women to date. We need more and at my age all I can do is support them which I do.

By: Gerry McCarthy

Gerry McCarthy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:12:08 +0000

Finally a validation of what my mother and I were outraged about all during the primary season. This is the reason I will vote for John McCain in the fall.
I also hope that this will be the end of Chris Matthews job, clearly he hated Hillary.

I will say the thing that most disappointed me was the women across the nation that bought into Obama instead of supporting a woman. She clearly was the experienced one but women especially young women deserted her.
Thank you for bring this to the public’s attention, I hope some heads roll. We lost the best possible chance to make a woman president.

By: Jessica Raboin

Jessica Raboin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:08:07 +0000

I am astounded by this video. I cannot believe the sexist men that actually hold postions in OUR media. They all should be fired so that the message gets across that what they said and stated was definitely NOT OK and won’t be accepted, period. However, I must say great job on the video, WMC! Let’s spread this around to get the message out that we need to change if we are ever going to have a fair and equal society.

By: Martha

Martha — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:46:00 +0000

Hi. You left out David Shuster, MSNBC, emmy award winner, who not only accused the Clintons of “pimping out” Chelsea, but also handed Tucker Carlson a pen with the head of Hillary on it that cackled when one manipulated it.

Thanks for this video. People have been telling me for months that I am imagining all of this.

By: Liz Mancini

Liz Mancini — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:40:56 +0000

The video is powerful because it batches every single sexist comment I’ve heard about Hillary. Seeing the talking heads spout their disrespect one-right-after-another has made all the difference. Infuriating. I’d seen and heard each insult as it occurred in real time. I probably winced at the sexism I was hearing but not until I saw and heard them back-to-back did it really impact me.
I felt the way I did when I was only half-listening to MSN one morning and heard “nappy-headed ho’s” and almost fell off my sofa. In a flash I was across the room and posting on a message board. Thankfully, so did millions of you. It was like the sound heard round the world by nightfall.

Since I was a teenager I’ve been baffled by the sexist remarks we endured but at least then it wasn’t 24/7 on the airwaves. Why, then and now, are men so blatantly comfortable with this crap? Aren’t most of them fathers of little girls?
I’m grateful for this blog, the video, and all that it inspires. The passivity of women is part of the problem… maybe this will be the beginning of the end of it.
Bravo! Hoping for a groundswell from this…

By: Mickey Carlson

Mickey Carlson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:30:29 +0000

After months of travelling with the HRC campaign, I can report that this video shows the least of the insults and rabid anti-female sentiment expressed by male and female reporters. The media insults and negative commentary are not the only reason this campaign did not succeed. It is painfully obvious that younger women take for granted the work that has been done to advance the rights of women, and older women are, well, tired of the effort. The question is, where to go from here?

By: victoria smith

victoria smith — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:15:33 +0000

I am appalled by many of the clips but one that especially disturbed me was the young woman who commented on Hillary’s “haggard appearance” and stated she looked “92 years old”. “If this is the face of experience, voters will be frightened off” as if appearance is the only deciding factor in a vote.
I believe,unfortunately, our greatest opponents are other woman. There are numerous reasons why woman in this country did not support Hillary in numbers that could have won her the nomination. The association of a strong woman; one that may identify herself as a feminist, could be the reason she had mature woman backing her and not woman of the current generations.
I recently took a Gender class in college and when the Professor asked the class if they classified themselves as feminist not one other person, even woman in the class, was willing to raise their hands. I discussed this disturbing incident with the prof. afterwards and we concluded it was because young woman percieve a negitive conotation with feminism (lesbian, bitch, aggressive). This made me aware of the sad state of affairs pertaining to this topic. Young woman, in general, too easily take for granted the progress this country has made in woman’s rights. And this very vunerable strong hold could quickly change if the media continues to perpetrate these sterotypes.
This presidential race is a call to arms for woman of all ages and ethnic groups to put a stop to these insidious imagines. We need to support all our sisters because it is sadly obvious our brothers are not ready to do so.

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:21:09 +0000

Maybe you could start a list of advertizers on the first page of this site so we can write the advertizers of sexist news media and boycott the products of these advertizers. I like to take action right away. Thanks! I think I wrote all the superdelegates four times during this primary season. I am really for action!