The funny thing about sexism is like the funny thing about stupidity.
Stupid people are too stupid to know they're stupid. Sexist people don't even know they're sexist.
And when someone tells them, they think it's stupid.
You know, like Markos Moulitsas, who's gotten into a lot of trouble over the years for his sexism (but he isn't! those girls are just hysterical!) and is now in trouble again (but he shouldn't be! those girls are just on the rag!).
So here's the post where he trivializes a female blogger who (uppity woman!) objected (girlie-man girl!) to being the recipient of death threats (pussy!).
You know, objecting to death threats is just, like, so gay! So whiney! So sissy!
Markos is, one supposes, an educated person. In some sense.
So -- what's his frickin' problem?
If he can't say something non-sexist, why can't he just shut up?
(Here's a post from Big Tent Democrat (with whom I am, generally speaking, in love) astonishingly defending the indefensible kos on this matter. Oy.)
Markos Moulitsas
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I've said it before, some men play a dangerous game treating women's legitimate complaints as if they were just so much whining. What that does, after time, is give many of us very thick skins, very rugged demeanours, so that when the men expect to be treated with care and consideration, we just don't know what they are talking about. After all, we put up with so much, can't they put up with just a little?
And why should we put up with any of it?
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