There’s been a spate of “effective immediately” media separations in the last 24 hours: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell was the first domino to fall, then came Tucker Carlson at Fox News, and then Don Lemon at CNN. All for the same issue.
Most disturbing about this evidence is the way it highlights just how widespread the acceptance of sexism, and of violence against women, is.
When Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor last Thursday to address the widespread sexism at work in the halls of Congress and deeply embedded in American culture and society, she had to suspect her remarks would garner some media attention. After all, Republican Representative Ted Yoho, while walking with fellow Representative Roger Williams…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez harshly criticized Ted Yoho on Thursday after he issued a half-hearted apology to her for using insulting language in a confrontation. The Democratic congresswoman was responding to the Republican congressman’s defensive comments on the House floor on Wednesday, which many saw as no apology at all. “I could not allow my nieces, I…
Ted Yoho apologized to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the House floor on Wednesday after he called her “disgusting” and used a sexist epithet to describe her. The Republican congressman issued the apology but he was less than candid about the language he used. He also pivoted to defending his own beliefs and his faith. “I rise…
Last Tuesday, former President Barack Obama gave his much-anticipated endorsement of his former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy. The endorsement was expected, of course, despite the wait Obama imposed, which seemed likely attributable to his preference to time his speech in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ own endorsement of Biden, creating a crescendo effect….
Some of the most recent weeks in American history alert us, if we’re paying the least bit of attention, to the fact that sexism is alive and well, indeed robustly thriving, in U.S. culture and society. Last March 11 brought a moment of victory and also frustration in the struggle for women’s rights, for human…
Responding to questions from reporters on Friday regarding Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s departure from the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination contests, President Donald Trump said that she lost confidence from voters because of how “mean” she is. He also questioned her credentials as a candidate. “I think lack of talent was her problem. She had a tremendous…
Last Thursday the Trump administration announced its intention to revoke California’s right to set its own auto emissions standards. The state’s special authority to set its own standards, stricter than federal regulations, dates back to the 1960s when California was battling particularly severe air pollution. Since then, however, California has been influential in encouraging other…
When Donald Trump tweets something patently racist, as when he tweeted the squad of four should go back where they came from or when he derided Baltimore as “rat and rodent infested mess,†media pundits can spend days debating whether or not Trump is racist. The idea seems to be that if Trump can be…
In a tweet last March, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to the elitist assaults on her that attempt to diminish and discredit her intellect and governing abilities based on her working-class roots and identity: “I find it revealing when people mock where I come from, & say they’re going to ‘send me back to waitressing,’ as…
In Hollywood and beyond, women are organizing to address sexual harassment in all workplaces, be they schools, hotels, farms, fast food restaurants or big box stores. In addition to saying #MeToo, they are saying “Time’s Up” to systemic inequality, and men have a stake in this fight too.
“Can we wonder that many reformers think that measures are not likely to be taken on behalf of women, unless their wishes could be publicly represented by women?”
Imagine if working to end rape culture were treated with the same attention as Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Mindy McGillivray says, “We feel the backlash of the Trump supporters. It scares us. It intimidates us. We are in fear of our lives.”
The silence must be broken. Women, men, and children are being harmed on a daily basis by this public health and safety crisis.
Claiming his father took the “high road”, Donald Trump Jr told host Simon Conway of 1040 WHO Iowa radio that it took “courage” for his father to close his mouth for once and also not be a sexist pig.
In the midst of our tributes to the first responders of then and now, in our gratefulness for those who serve in our nation’s military and for those who have given their lives in this service, and in our hope for tomorrow, can we also make room again to ponder the call to welcome the world’s exhausted, suffering, homeless ones for whom this nation’s welcome light shines?
Matt Lauer’s bias against women ruined his ability to pass for a journalist last night. He failed to inform the people, and that is the job.
Not only did he hurt the American public, but he sent signals to young girls that this is how they will be treated even when they are the smartest person in the room.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump defended Fox News Chief Roger Ailes, saying he thinks the charges are unfounded based on what he’s “read”.
I kid you not.
Trump said, “You know, if Obama wanted it the other way, if he said leave, she would have said leave. She does whatever he wants her to. Now, you know why, but that’s okay, we don’t have to get into that.”
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) doubled down on Donald Trump’s vulgar obsession with Clinton’s bathroom breaks, last seen during Trump’s she got “schlonged” rant.
How do we handle all the love that Republicans show women?
By a vote of 6-3 The Supreme Court is allowing Texas’ draconian voter ID law to be enforced for this year’s election.
Some men have been suggesting Rodgers’ killing of more men than women means he wasn’t a misogynist. Nothing could be further from the truth.
LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racism has been the worst kept secret in sports, but his sexism and hatred of women has gone unacknowledged and unpunished for decades.
An implicit goal of the War on Poverty was to make the US a true meritocracy, and in this sense, it missed its target.
Anthony Weiner needs to get out of the race after the vile, misogynistic tantrum his communications director, Barbara Morgan.
The two-fisted right-wing war on the working and middle-class has arrived and only wave after wave of Broad Left coalitions can truly stem the tide of fully corporatized America.
