Melissa McEwan posts her Hillary Sexism Watch: Part 83, starring the Frat Boys of MSNBC.

Feministe has the new cover of TNR. Unbelievable.

No, I take it back. Perfectly believable. Just infuriating.

You can contact TNR’s editors at letters@tnr.com.

Marc Rudov, sexist wanker. Not that this is news.

Part 4 of Misogyny, Sexism, & the Gender Gap in the 2008 Election

In choosing a nominee, the Democratic Party will not merely be deciding who deserves to win, or who would make the best candidate. It will also be a decision about which poisoned landscape the Party wishes to compete upon —- one in which toxic wildflowers of misogyny and sexism are in full bloom, or one in which the poisonous weed of racism is a constant part of the environment, and needs the merest watering to completely despoil the land.  Read more 

Via Shakesville, go read.

The cousin’s victim impact statement, reproduced in the comments, is particularly heartbreaking. I’m not generally a big fan of victim impact statements, but then I have always assumed killing a woman by drugging her so that the defendant could rape her and reach his goal of sleeping with (read: raping) 100 women didn’t require a victim impact statement for people (read: the court, the government and society) to understand what a horrible, little psychopath the defendant is. Clearly I was wrong.

followed by some push back:

HOW THE GENDER GAP, SEXISM, AND MISOGYNY CHANGE THE OUTCOME IN INDIVIDUAL STATES

The gender gap in presidential elections is a well documented phenomenon. Almost without exception, women vote for Democratic candidates at a higher percentage than do men, while men vote for Republican candidates at a higher percentage than women. Moreover, men’s preference for Republican candidates is more pronounced than women’s preference for Democrats. In the 2004 election, nationally men gave Bush an 11 point lead (Bush 55%, Kerry 44%), while women gave Kerry a mere 3 point lead (Bush 48%, Kerry 51%).

Data from a recent (conducted Feb 26-28, released March 7) 50 state Survey USA (SUSA) poll of registered voters shows more than just a gender gap; it provides evidence that sexism and misogyny can have a profound impact in shaping electoral outcomes. The gender gap is nearly double the size when the matchup is John McCain vs. Hillary Clinton than when it is McCain
and Barack Obama. McCain/Clinton shows a 13.5% gap in registered voters and a 7% gap when it is McCain/Obama.  Read more 

REGIONAL COMPARISONS & BEST AND WORST STATES

The individual state cross tables from the SUSA 50 state general election poll demonstrate how the gender gap determines the winner in a very large number of states. But there is considerable variation between states themselves and within regions. Much of the variation appears to be related to other factors, such as race and racism, and how liberal/conservative a state is.  Read more 

Just because they’re my favorite people today, let’s review how much the Saudi government sucks. At least she didn’t turn him into a newt.

In a letter to King Abdullah, the rights group described the trial and conviction of Fawza Falih as a miscarriage of justice.

The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read.

Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent.

Human Rights Watch said that Ms Falih had exhausted all her chances of appealing against her death sentence and she could only now be saved if King Abdullah intervened.  Read more 

[Update 2: I can’t even muster the snark for it] (Updated with a very revealing Bob Herbert behind the wall quote) Quick: when I say “black man” what’s the first thing to pop into your head?

So I’m going to tackle the misogyny issue in depth more later, but the race angle to this affair is one I can address in short form. Pam raises some good points about how sexist videos on BET don’t let Imus off the hook for his words; two wrongs don’t make a right and all that. But I’ll add: not all Black people like hip hop and watch BET and use the word “Nigger” among themselves and their friends and families. The women Imus chose to mock are perfect examples of what I’m talking about; friends who watched their TV interview said they came across as classy, not angry, and incredibly astute about the entirety of the matter. Yes, folks- some black people are atheists, have naturally red hair and blue eyes, listen to classical music (Farrakhan and Condi come to mind), enjoy hockey and sci-fi, speak with completely whitebread middle American accents, and some are even multimillionaires who’ve never been on welfare or prostituted themselves.

This whole affair has reminded me that too many people still really do think that we are “all alike.” Check your in’gance, whitefolk.  Read more 

Ha, while we’ve been having our own little discussions about misogyny here at Corrente, it looks like Big Orange stepped in it. You make the call. Kos’ original post. In which he basically says, “Suck it up. Death threats happen. They aren’t a big risk.” Which is what I said somewhere, I’m too tired to go digging for it now. Steve D and about a score of other bloggers (live links at link) think Kos should apologize, mainly for underestimating and misrepresenting the very real risk that women, but not men, face in these sorts of threats. BTD also falls into that group who think Kos blew it, but initially had a different reaction. Is Kos a misogynist and what does that mean for the movement?  Read more 

Sweet Jeebus, it’s like shooting bicycles in a barrel, isn’t it? And as CD pointed out yesterday, the Heathers are the worst. Must be the Stockholm Syndrome, or something.

Today, Bonnie Erbe from Useless News and World Distort:

Giddy [Trans: Effeminate] Lefties All Over the Hill

Pay-go is the perfect way for Democrats to gracefully [Trans: Effeminate] say “No” to left-wing ideologues who will demand payback for Democrats’ November election wins.

How odd. Democrats win an election, and want their agenda implemented. What could they be thinking?  Read more 

I suppose, for some, it must be a very comforting idea. Ladies, here’s what your Christofascist neighbors envision for you:

If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt and politics, what would you do? Hoo-boy, this is where I get in trouble, and that starts with “T” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for “pool.” I’d like to jump in a pool right now. Some may tell me to jump in a river for this one: I would remove women’s suffrage, and I might even consider making voting rights tied to property ownership.  Read more