How do you ensure that you won’t be
ostracized, denounced, or fired if you are a media celebrity, captain of
industry, or high public official?
For some, sexist banter is certainly no problem. Stand-up
comedian Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a c–t and a tw-t, but suffered no ill
consequences. David Letterman joked on air that Sarah Palin’s 14-year-old
daughter had had sex with Alex Rodriguez during a New York Yankees game. There
was no downside to that either. President Obama tosses around “sweetie” as he wishes.
No problem with that. No one believes Barack could be condescending to women.
It is not just that sloppy speech can, with the right
ideological insurance, become irrelevant. Inconvenient truths can be insured
against too. Barack Obama’s female staffers make far less than do their male
counterparts, at least by the quirky sort of standards that the president
himself applies to others to win petty victories in his vaunted war against the
war against women. Bill Clinton had sexual relations with a young staffer, in
what feminists would call a classic exploitative situation of disparate power.
Most such bosses would be fired for hitting on their young assistants. If Woody
Allen were not insured as a left-wing filmmaker, he would have been ostracized
out of Hollywood…..To Read More…….
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