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A Measure of Progress: Media Held Accountable for Sexist Remarks About Hillary Clinton

By Anna

Feministe, the blog of law student (and sometime Ms. JD blogger) Jill Filipovic, has a spot-on summary of recent Hillary-related events. Declaring that "A Bad Day for Sexism is a Good Day for Women," Feministe recaps:

David Shuster at MSNBC asked if Chelsea Clinton was being "pimped out" because she?s making calls on behalf of her mother?s campaign, something that adult children of politicians do to support their fathers? campaigns with regularity. The Clinton campaign told him how inappropriate his remark was in a private email, but Shuster stood his ground. So Clinton?s communication director, Howard Wolfson, called Shuster out for it publicly and said that Senator Clinton would pull out of the MSNBC debate scheduled for February 26.

Ann at Feministing argues that Shuster's underlying judgment was "bad working mother." Whether vague or specific, sexist remarks are neither novel nor isolated. But something else is novel about this situation--something good. Feministe explains...

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Full post as published by Ms. JD on February 09, 2008 (boomark / email).