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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 07:58 AM
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Now THAT'S sexism! "GOP Consultant: It's 'Accurate' To Call A Woman A 'Bitch'"
Courtesy TPMCafe. This is what we're running against in the fall.

GOP Consultant On CNN: Sometimes It's "Accurate" To Call A Woman A "Bitch"

On CNN a few moments ago, analyst Jeffery Toobin argued that Hillary was right when she said in an interview that coverage of the race has been "sexist," buttressing his case by pointing to a recent newspaper column suggesting that Hillary is a "white bitch." Toobin, unsurprisingly, took issue with this, saying that it was "appalling" that this was considered acceptable.

GOP consultant Alex Castellanos, someone who presumably was on CNN's panel because he'd been invited by the network's producers, disagreed. Check out what he had to say about it...

"Some women, by the way, are named that, and it's accurate," Castellanos said. He went on to buttress his case by pointing out that Hillary is "abrasive, aggressive, irritating."

What's amusing about this is that Castellanos actually argued that it's sometimes accurate to call a woman a "bitch" as a way of making the claim that Hillary was wrong to argue that there's sexism in our political coverage. Pretty twisted stuff.


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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 08:00 AM
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1. What an asshole.
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LizW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 08:01 AM
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2. That has been said here at DU many times
I have read many posts right here at GD/P that say, "Well, it's what she is!" "If she wouldn't act like one, she wouldn't get called that!"

And some argued, just like the GOPer, that it's not sexism if the woman "really is a bitch".

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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 08:34 AM
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4. Yes, but what you're forgetting is
Edited on Wed May-21-08 08:40 AM by Bucky
that people who say those sorts of things are immature weasels.
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:47 AM
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9. ~applause~
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 08:01 AM
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3. I saw this on CNN last night
I wrote an email immediately to complain explaining that I was supporting Obama, but found this sexist treatment of Clinton and women in general unacceptable. Castellanos is a sleaze.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 08:35 AM
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5. Wow. Does he post at DU? n/t
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:46 AM
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8. This guy does
Edited on Wed May-21-08 10:47 AM by Marrah_G
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 09:14 AM
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6. Alex Castellanos came up with Jesse Helms' infamous race-baiting "White Hands" ad...
Just something that we should never forget.

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happyslug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:44 AM
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7. I live in an Area that went over 80% for Hillary
And I still saw way more people who were Anti-Hillary then who were anti-Obama. Some people can NOT handle the idea of a woman being in a position of Authority. Thus the observation that in much of the country, given a choice between a White Woman and a Black Male, among whites the male wins. In Areas that went for Hillary that is NOT the case, but elsewhere in these Unite States (More the South and West, excluding the West Coast, then elsewhere) that is a recurring theme.
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Armstead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:50 AM
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10. Actually, there is a point in that...
Edited on Wed May-21-08 10:51 AM by Armstead
How often does someone like Tom Delay get called a bastard, or a son-of-a-bitch or a prick by those who disagree with him or dislike him personally? And aren't those apt ways to describe someone with his characteristics?

Those are gender-specific insults that I doubt many here would object to. But are they sexist? Are they more sexist than similar gender specific insults applied to women someone objects to?

Just askin.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 10:58 AM
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11. ...
I'm probably defective in some way, but I have just never been that offended when someone calls me a bitch (and if you knew me, you'd also know it is not a rare occurence). Most of the time if it's man who I don't know very well it is usually because I have challenged him on something/proven him wrong or in some way made him feel small. My husband has said it exactly once in 14 years (and even though he paid dearly, looking back, I was being a bitch at the time). Women are far more likely to call one another bitch (in my experience at least), sometimes for good cause, sometimes not....

I guess what I'm getting at is that calling someone a bitch is usually more of a reflection on the one who says it and it usually means they have run out of intelligent things to say...
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