No dead-ender diary would be complete without citing a virulant right-wing propaganda site.

It's just an exercise.

on the feminist statement about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers -- it goes something like 'Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she had to do it backwards, and in heels.'

It's a huge stretch to try to make anything more of it in my opinion.

It's my opinion that Obama and Clinton have a huge amount of respect for each other.  Clinton is not a racist, Obama is not a misogynist...whatever was said (or nuanced) by either candidate during the primaries was said to try to gain an edge over the opponent...and they both know it.

This isn't 'parsing,' this is 'making things up.'

because when schools are co-ed, men hold most leadership positions, but when it's an all girl school, only girls hold those positions and so they get more experience in leadership. it's a fact that no woman has been elected president, and it's a fact that hardly any females head corporations, when men also compete, the men dominate the top power jobs.  Hillary is allowed to say those things, but if a man said that about her, one would wonder, why is he speaking for her, what's that about.  considering it a compliment to say a woman is as good as a man is sexist. We're all people here.  

Well, seeing as how dead-enders aren't actually feminists, they can't be expected to know references to famous quotes from actual feminist political icons.

Mojo for Ginger.

Funny though, in her latter years she was very conservative - a good friend of Reagan.

Of course the line still holds a lot of truth.

instead of trying to help him? good idea, let him advise himself?  (you're wrong, anyone can learn, but they have to have the right tools.)  

But the replay of his "heels" comment kept hitting my ear like a clinker. So I flipped it around.

It also caught my attention because I know back in the 1990s her doctor prohibited her from wearing heels because they'd damaged her feet.

You are free to disagree cgal.

That word has been used for many years.  Rummy was hardly the first to use it.

so they twist this into saying I'm trying to get Hillary nominated. I am not. Obama is the nominee.

No, dead-ender does not originate with Rumsfeld, but it's truly characteristic of dead-enders to fabricate additional meanings where there are none whenever it serves their warped, amoral agenda.

because it's derogatory. If I just said "hair" people might not get the different-ness of it.

This diary could be used as supporting evidence in mine about sexism swiftboating.

Notice the cited article from the conservative paper purposely making Obama look like the candidate least concerned about looking sexist.

Look at who is pushing the pablum on Democratic websites.

What is their goal? Is it to honestly take action against the perpetrators of the sexism, if so where are the action plans?

How is withholding support from Obama addressing the sexism in society in general, and the media specifically?

What does the PUMA crowd expect the dnc to do about it?

What do they think pappy McPain will do about it?

because he and Cindy adopted a Bangladeshi daughter. He was the target of a whisper campaign that he had fathered her illegitimately.

He has tried. C'mon, apologizing for leading the charge against making MLK day does do it? It was especially painful to watch on the news, as I think his real lack of concern for Blacks was what he was actually telegraphing to a base who seem quite comfortable with racism of all kinds.

Some black voters are really conservative and would be pugs except for the racist part of that party.  John McCain has a dark skinned adopted daughter and he was a victim of racist attacks when he was running against Bush.  He would have had an easier time I think not sounding so weird, except the pugs really have a racist platform and so they get very few black party members, whatever the political philosophy.  

"Nevertheless, replacing the gendered images with racial images is revealing."

Especially when the racial image is clearly pejorative and the gendered image is not. He referenced Ann Richards' "in heels remark," he didn't say "with your naturally weak frame." "Nappy" was a bullshit analog.

Why don't you bitter, delusional gasbags go back to Hillaryis44 where tortured attempts at character assassination are still the topic du jour?

Google fixed it?  http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/05/20/wom en-invent-things-too-google-fixes-she-in vented/

And I agree it is a giant pain in the ass to parse and examine every statement that comes out of our mouths. But think of racist statements that for so long were accepted because that was how people had always talked.

I think the better statement would be "each person has unique talents and you should make the most of yours" or something, instead of implying the boys can do it all, and sure honey, you can too. It's a minor quibble, but like Obama's statement "you can do anything the boys can do" hits my ear like a clinker, like outdated, 1970s feminism that thought we'd conquered and moved beyond so we could climb the next hill toward progress.

But come on, you sound like a really good parent so ... take what I say with a grain of salt.

Women can do anything "the boys" can do.

Look, it's priggish to bring this up, people will roll their eyes when statements meant as compliments are parsed like this. Or as some comments upthread show, they will react with intense anger.

"Boys will be boys" has also long been accepted. But that doesn't make it right.

YOU were being priggish. But the tedium of language parsing will make many people irritable.

you think that's a compliment? I don't.  I don't think very many black americans think discrimination is all gone either, just because Barack is our nominee.  Black Americans can do anything any other American can do as long as they're not prevented from doing whatever they can through institutional racism, which exists.  The people aren't so racist, but almost half of incarcerated men are black, and inner city schools are often terrible, and the neighborhoods are dangerous and under-served, and businesses don't invest in disadvantaged communities even though there is no profit reason for why not.  There is a lot of work to do in this country before we have a level playing field for black Americans.  So, no, I think that would be seen as stupid.  If racism wasn't a factor for Barack, it's because the DNC liked him and so the leaders weren't biased against him and because the people aren't so racist (or so sexist, turns out).  

wordplay is fun.