Conservative publication smears woman who asked debate question about equal pay
From The Raw Story:
The conservative publication Free Beacon on Wednesday published an article smearing the 24-year-old woman who asked about equal pay for women at the presidential debate.
The article, published anonymously, alleged that Katherine Fenton’s Twitter account “reveals that purple Joose is her choice to get blackout drunk and she has a history of getting wet at happy hour.” The article also highlights sexually suggestive messages Fenton allegedly sent from her Twitter account.
More at link: Conservative publication smears woman who asked debate question about equal pay
Another article about this from Feministing:
Remember Katherine Fenton, the young woman who asked the candidates a question about the gender pay gap during Tuesday’s debate? The one who gave Barack Obama the chance to remind us that the first law he ever signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and gave Mitt Romney the chance to give us all a great meme (and also invent a story about his track record of hiring women)? Well, because that 24-year-old woman had the nerve, the audacity, to ask about gender inequality – IN PUBLIC, OUT LOUD – she’s now the target of attacks on the right.
I’m not going to link to the Free Beacon, the conservative site that yesterday put up a post about Fenton – with no author byline, real classy move – because I don’t want to give them the traffic. But Free Beacon has taken to Fenton’s Twitter feed in an attempt to find tweets that will discredit her. And as we all know, the best way to discredit a woman in America is to call her a slut (it’s a tie with “fat” and “ugly,” and you get extra Douchebag Points if you can do all three).
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According to that interview, Fenton doesn’t consider herself a feminist, but let me tell you something, Katherine: if a 24-year-old man had stood up and asked a question that conservatives didn’t like, they wouldn’t pull this kind of stunt. They wouldn’t bring up his drinking and throw around sexual innuendo about him, because in our culture, drinking and fucking make men more powerful, not less.
This shit is sexist, and feminism is the fight against sexism. You might not consider yourself one of us, Katherine, but we’ve got your back anyway.
Link: Well You Did Dare To Speak...
Color me shocked.
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I read in Newsday the (Long Island paper) today that she says she is still undecided - I kid you not. 
Hopefully she will see this shit and finally get the message.
Everyone knows feminists are loud angry ugly frigid hags, after all.
why would not wanting to taking on the label of feminist make her choice of who to vote for any more difficult
i think she must just be a little nuts 
> But she also says she’s worried about the deficit: “$16 trillion in debt is a huge figure.”
She sounds like she listens to Fox "news" and/or OxyRush. The right-wing MSM (meaning the entire media) pushes this debt non-story.
If debt is such a problem, why are interest rates at all-time lows? 
Then I caught a glimpse of it... took me a while to face it head-on. It can be overwhelming.
Been side-eyeing everything ever since. 
And not that I think you need it, but just in case anyone gets ENTRAPPED here and is curious...
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/faq-isnt-the-patriarchy-just-some-conspiracy-theory-that-blames-all-men-even-decent-men-for-womens-woes/
I must confess "Patriarchy" was nowhere near where this males mind was coming up with.
Being as it is a Spooky Conspiracy Theory and all.
...or I might have.
