Smart Quote of the Day
Posted 17 May, 2008 at 3:19 pm by Kevin
Filed Under Politics, Womanism/Feminism |
Cara, at Feministe, writing about Sen. Obama’s “sweetie” remark:
I’d like to prevent this from going where I think it’s going to go: someone calls Obama a sexist pig and says that this is proof of why Clinton should be the nominee, someone else then calls Clinton a racist and says that her racist campaigning is proof of why Obama should be our nominee, and then we all end up yelling, getting our feelings hurt, hating each other and looking like assholes. I’m not posting this so that we can do that — I’m posting it because I think that we can and should criticize candidates who we otherwise support, and that this criticism is what forces them to be better.
And seriously, dudes, don’t go around calling women that you don’t know “sweetie” or “honey” or whatever. It’s really not cool. Good on Sen. Obama for apologizing, though.
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