[Marxism] (fwd) bimbo self on CBS

[Les Schaffer]

[ forwarded for Einde, who is having trouble getting through to our server]



Aaron Aarons wrote:
> The one objectionable thing David Thorstad did was use the word 
> 'bimbo' to describe Palin in his Subject header:
>
>> Subject: [Marxism] Palin reveals her bimbo self on CBS
>
> But, in what Ms. de la Peña McCook actually quoted, he's praising one 
> woman, Katie Couric, as "professional and informed and fair" in 
> exposing another woman, Sarah Palin, as the right-wing nutcase that 
> she is -- unless she's just a very good but cynical actress who thinks 
> that coming across as a right-wing nutcase is a smart career move. If 
> she's a "whore", a word I don't use (and David didn't use), it's only 
> in the sense that all politicians are "whores". And if she were my 
> mother I'd consider matricide.
>
> Aside from the unfortunate choice of "bimbo" to describe a woman with 
> looks but no brains, there's nothing anti-woman in what David wrote.
>
This reveals how deep sexism is ingrained in the thought processes of
some people who consider themselves to be on the left. I don't think
anybody here would refeer to an Afrio-American candidate as a "nigger",
no matter how obnoxious his politics were.

Einde O'Callaghan