Say No to Appearance Bashing
Posted by janisstrope on November 23, 2008
We saw plenty of woman bashing during the campaign, with Clinton and Palin held up to national ridicule for their appearance, voice, and clothes. A blog post came to my attention yesterday, trashing Valerie Jarret for being “one strange lookin’ woman.
This is my response to the email that shared an URL for this blog and I left comments at the blog as well. If you’ve had enough of women being judged on their looks, not their abilities, leave your own comments. Perhaps it will hold up a mirror to help the writer realize that being part of the solution is better than perpetrating the problem.
“This kind of sexist language needs to end. Every time a woman is judged and put down because of her looks, other women need to step up and say “oh no you don’t”.
We’ve got plenty of ugly men in the government, and they have no problem getting elected, and nobody makes such juvenile comments about their appearance as I read on this blog.
Don’t like Obama? Fine. But if you were a Hillary supporter, and were appalled by the way her looks, voice, laugh, cleavage, and pantsuits were bashed and trashed, this kind of rhetoric should piss you off. Palin got the same treatment. Both got it often at the hands of other women, which is the worst betrayal.
So don’t trash a woman associated with Obama, based on her looks. Her record, her qualifications – fair game. Her face, no.”
