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Gov. Rick Perrys political action committee, RickPAC, grabbed headlines this week by hiring Jamie Johnson as senior director. Its a surprising choice, because Johnson is a sexist. Not the usual kind that swears up and down hes not a sexist while talking down to women or minimizing the impact of sexism, either. Johnson, who previously worked for Iowa Right to Life and the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition, is bluntly sexist. In 2012, an email Johnson wrote surfaced in which he wrote, The question then comes, Is it Gods highest desire, that is, his biblically expressed will to have a woman rule the institutions of the family, the church, and the state?
Johnsons excuse was that he meant for the email to be private, as if lying about how sexist you really are to the public makes your sexism less offensive. Hiring someone known for his overt sexism should be politically poisonous, especially when Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic nominee going into 2016, but Perrys people actually have a good reason to think this is going to be no big deal, because this kind of overt sexism has become downright mainstream in conservative media as of late. Yes, even as larger numbers of women enter politics, men in conservative spaces seemingly feel freer than ever to let it all hang out, misogyny-wise.
Or maybe its because youre seeing more women in politics, which, in turn, is creating a rather unseemly panic among conservative male pundits who are losing the ability to hide how freaked out they are about having to treat women like people with authority. On Wednesdays episode of Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox News, Charles Payne, while ostensibly praising Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen for not hand-holding Wall Street, still undermined her by saying, She did it like a typical mommy would, and suggesting that Yellens mommy personality made her a weak leader.
Sexism used to be conveyed, even in conservative media, with much more subtlety, but in the past couple of years, theres been a shift towards hitting the audience over the head with it. Maybe the trend started with Rush Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute for using birth control in 2012. Or maybe it started in 2013, when Erick Erickson, Lou Dobbs, and Juan Williams went on Fox News to denounce women who make higher salaries than their husbands, saying that doing so signals the disintegration of marriage and that the natural world is one where the male is typically dominant and the female is meant for a complimentary role, which is a lovely euphemism for subservient.
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As Women Get More Power, Rightwing Pundits Get More Sexist (Original Post)
n2doc
Mar 2015
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catbyte
(34,386 posts)1. They're more overtly racist, so it just goes to follow that their misogyny would burst forth too.
Demit
(11,238 posts)2. Maybe it started in 2012? Maybe it started in 2013?
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh, Amanda. It started long before that.