{"id":4431,"date":"2008-05-15T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T16:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/15\/the-misogyny-she-wont-miss-and-the-racism-shes-already-missed\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T16:50:29","slug":"the-misogyny-she-wont-miss-and-the-racism-shes-already-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4431","title":{"rendered":"The Misogyny She Won't Miss, And The Racism She's Already Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really loved the first 13 paragraphs of “The Misogyny I Won’t Miss,”<\/a> an op-ed by Marie Cocco in today’s Washington Post<\/em>, about what she won’t miss once the Clinton campaign ends:<\/p>\n

I won’t miss reading another treatise by a man or woman, of the left or right, who says that sexism has had not even a teeny-weeny bit of influence on the course of the Democratic campaign. To hint that sexism might possibly have had a minimal role is to play that risible “gender card.”<\/p>\n

Most of all, I will not miss the silence.<\/p>\n

I will not miss the deafening, depressing silence of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean or other leading Democrats, who to my knowledge (with the exception of Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland) haven’t publicly uttered a word of outrage at the unrelenting, sex-based hate that has been hurled at a former first lady and two-term senator from New York. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reading this, I was so with Ms. Cocco, mentally jumping up and down and cheering for her. The first 13 (of 15) paragraphs really are excellent. Then — with the editorial all but over — she had to drop in this cluncker:<\/p>\n

Would the silence prevail if Obama’s likeness were put on a tap-dancing doll that was sold at airports? Would the media figures who dole out precious face time to these politicians be such pals if they’d compared Obama with a character in a blaxploitation film? And how would crude references to Obama’s sex organs play?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seeking a gold medal in oppression Olympics, Ms. Cocco?<\/p>\n

Like Ms Cocco, I won’t miss the misogynistic comments directed at Clinton from the media, from right-wingers and from Obama supporters; nor the deafening silence about sexism from the party establishment. All of that is fucking loathsome.<\/p>\n

Something else <\/em>I won’t miss? Clinton supporters who either make race-based attacks on Obama’s candidacy, or who (like Ms. Cocco) imply that racism doesn’t exist or hasn’t affected the course of this campaign, and anyhow racism isn’t nearly as bad as sexism. And you know what? That’s fucking loathsome too.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Curtsy: Liza at Culture Kitchen<\/a>. And see Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really loved the first 13 paragraphs of “The Misogyny I Won’t Miss,” an op-ed by Marie Cocco in today’s Washington Post, about what she won’t miss once the Clinton campaign ends: I won’t miss reading another treatise by a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}