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The Spite Vote
I enjoyed your article and found many points you made to be right on the money. In particular, I find the attitude of disgruntled Clinton supporters who say they won't vote for Obama to be ridiculous and thick with irony. Their displaced anger and willingness to cut off their nose to spite their face in the name of battling sexism is laughable. ...
Posted to XX Factor Extra by s_eilers on August 22, 2008
Re: I'm with Kim!
I reccommened this, and I wish I could a hundred times over. The Oppression Olympics that we've been struggling through this primary season has been ugly & unnecessary. I swore on Super Tuesday, when my state had its caucus, that I would work towards the election of whichever candidate the Democratic Party put forward, because I believed ...
Posted to XX Factor by eacole on June 3, 2008
Ann Hulbert's take on Gender and Experience
I must say that this is really a ironic post found on a blog limited to women writers. Ann is arguing that Hillary has become the candidate of the non-elite because she's postmenopausal? Oh come on! I thought that we (and by 'we' I mean 'all of us women who consider ourselves feminists') were way beyond the 'biology is destiny' crap. There may ...
Posted to XX Factor by smartwoman on May 2, 2008
Re: Are Hillary supporters soon to be called &amp;amp;amp;quot;cult followers
Not all Clinton supporters are cult followers. I'm a former Clinton supporter and I can see some of the reasons there are still so many behind her; especially the older women. Older women (for arguments sake say, over 60) fought so hard against discrimination that this would be the crowning achievement in a struggle against sexism. Younger women ...
Posted to Politics by BP in NJ on April 8, 2008
74 Percent
This is what women earn, compared to men. And it's worse for Black women, Hispanic women and Asian women. And try living on Social Security or a pension that is paid out based on how much you earn in your lifetime. Or try caring not only for children, but aging and ill parents, as well on earnings that are just 74% of men's wages. And try being ...
Posted to Politics by mabelle55 on March 24, 2008
Re: FOX Lies!! Barack Obama Pastor Wright
I have to say, this isn't just FOX news. The green day song ''American Idiot..one nation controlled by the media'' comes to mind. I'm getting really sick and tired of ISMS ruling our country and our lives instead of ideas and thoughts and common sense. Fanatacism, politicism, racism, conservatism, liberalism, ageism(sp?),fundamentalism, ...
Posted to XX Factor by Thevail on March 23, 2008
Re: Hilary, be honest?
ummm of course the difference being that it was Hilary's husband that did this not Hilary and her husband (as in the case of Tammy Faye)...h*ll screw the fact that her husband cheated on her why are women still marrying. It totally mystifies me. part of what a gendist is btw is someone who places an unnecessary burden on someone because of the ...
Posted to Politics by jeqal on March 22, 2008
Ferarro? Anyone?
Why are we still discussing Client 9 when there is a very real intersection between race and gender blowing up on the national stage? Enough with the hookers, onto the race v. gender war that the Clinton campaign has dumped on all of our laps in stark terms.
Posted to XX Factor by jimd on March 13, 2008
Where's the real XX Factor??
I'm becoming more and more confused at how these posts can be considered a political commentary from the female perspective, when there is so much female-bashing mixed in with everything! Instead of focusing on the policies of Clinton and Obama, their personalities/gender/race/clothes! are all anyone talks about. They may be very similar in ...
Posted to XX Factor by asadastra on March 11, 2008
Race and Gender in the Coverage of Presidential Politics
I perused the site for provocative comments from women on how race and gender are driving the election but found few. So chew on this candid perspective in response to the media's slicing and dicing of votes by race and gender to death. Just as it is preposterous to perpetuate the opinion that most Hispanic males wear casual Polo Ralph Lauren ...
Posted to XX Factor by Suede on March 2, 2008

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