Posting a feminist diary at MyDD is possibly less torturous than posting a feminist diary at Daily Kos.
Or maybe not.
Over at the progressive MyDD, Nancy Kallitechnis frames Obama speech writer Jon Favreau's "funny" participation in the ongoing degradation and sexualization of Hillary Rodham Clinton as morally heinous hate speech.
Laughs, ridicule, and jeers ensue.
Nancy Kallitechnis at MyDD:
Favreau portrayed an image of himself in sexual foreplay with the image of Clinton in a public place. He is lowering Hillary Clinton's status in a vicious, cruel, and extremely disrespectful way. Women and girls are the most oppressed group in the world. Men dominate women politically, economically, and socially. Women have a long way to go before we achieve political equality with men. Thus, harming women politicians by lowering their status in this way is morally heinous. A person who has used hate speech to lessen the status of a protected group, be it women, blacks, jews, etc. has no place working in the government. . . read more
TGW: Sexist Photo: Obama Speechwriter Gropes Breast of Hillary
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