Moderately misogynist?
Okay, so I am not a polisci major; nor am I American.
Anyway, I was looking at Google News today, and I noticed this headline:
“She May Be on the Other Team, But She Called All the Plays”. Oh? I assumed that based on the headline, the article must be about a lesbian or “something” equally tantalizing. “Gosh!” I thought, “this must be quite some crazy story about a lesbian calling the shots for it to be a top page story on Google News!” Yeah yeah yeah. Black presidents! Female Secretaries of State! Hell, America is getting pretty hippie-dippie. What have these lesbians done now? [/sarcasm]
Then I clicked on the article, and to much bemusement, realized that it was about an American politician named Olympia Snowe. Not really following what goes on in American politics, I had no idea who this woman was. Oh, indeed, she does have some leverage.
Unfortunately, the article, like many before it, made my brain explode.
And here is where I throw out the misogyny card. Would the attention, at least displayed by the Washington Post, really be paid in the same manner were this senator a man? Probably not.
“She May Be on the Other Team…” Clever double entendre of a title! Get it? She is a member of the opposition party, but she’s also a chick playing in the man’s game of politics! Read further, and you see her painted as a coy and clever woman, holding out until she can work the men, the “other team”, how she pleases. Look at that woman go! Playing hardball with the big boys!
Well, props to the Washington Post for only making a moderate mention of Ms. Snowe’s attire.
