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(Not a local New Hampshire story, but something we should all be disgusted at, whichever candidate we support - promoted by Laura Clawson)
I just got back from a vacation, and I had a layover in Washington, DC. Across from where I sat lay the CNBC store, proudly sporting that NBC peacock we've come to know so well.
I wandered over to grab a newspaper or a magazine, and this is what I found in the center of the store, facing outward from the cash register.
Did you get it? Did you get the joke? Because strong women hate penises. Strong women want to "bust men's balls" because let's face it, they're envious of our balls. They are all, you know, menopausal and uptight. And we dudes, we're just hanging out, being cool, when they come around cracking our nuts...
Because, you know, male power is natural, but female power is a pathology. Always.
That's why a major news outlet can sell a novelty item where a female presidential candidate cracks nuts with her "stainless steel thighs".
Is there some way to apply pressure to CNBC to stop selling this misogynist crap? If you have any ideas, leave them in the comments.
This is only tangentially about the Clinton-Obama race. But it is in part triggered by the view expressed by some that - other things somehow impossibly being equal - Americans are less willing to elect a woman than a black as President.
At first glance this notion seemed clearly wrong to me. We have one black Senator today and sixteen woman Senators. We have six woman governors and two - counting the recently-ascended Paterson - black governors.
Black Americans got the official right to vote in the 1870, women in 1920. But women didn't face the same institutional barriers to voting afterward: we needed a Voting Rights Act of 1965 to help end racial, not sexist, discrimination in voting.
By most historical metrics I could see, blacks have a tougher time climbing our political ladder. But then this week's story on the breakaway polygamist sect of Mormons broke.
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