Posted on 03/28/2016 1:49:51 PM PDT by dennisw
Barbra Streisand lashed out at political pundits and the media at large on Friday, accusing them of demonstrating “outright sexism” and “sexist condescension” while covering Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
“Why is it that today even a woman as impressive as Hillary Clinton is judged not by her merits and extensive resume alone, but held to a pernicious double standard?” the ten-time Grammy Award-winning singer wrote in a short essay for the Huffington Post.
She continued:
It seems that nothing much has changed. It’s been 24 years since I said in a speech for Women in Film, “Men and women are clearly measured by a different yardstick. And that makes me angry. Of course, I’m not supposed to be angry. A woman should be soft-spoken, agreeable, ladylike, understated. In other words, stifled. Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society.
It’s been decades since those speeches, but there is still outright sexism in much of the commentary on Secretary Clinton’s campaign.
As evidence of the “explicit and implicit” sexism of the media’s treatment of Clinton, Streisand cited tweets from Fox News’ Brit Hume, who wrote that Clinton was “shouting angrily” in one of her victory speeches, and from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who urged the candidate to “smile” after a particularly “big night.”
“Hillary Clinton has a great smile and smiles often. So does Barack Obama. So does Bill Clinton.
During the annual Women in Entertainment breakfast in December, the 73-year-old singer claimed women “are still treated as second-class citizens” on equal pay and representation issues, and added that “[g]ender inequality even extends” to mice used in laboratory experiments. The longtime Democrat and Obama fundraiser also blasted female journalists’ treatment of Clinton, calling them “antagonistic” and “judgmental.”
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The Schnoz teams up with the Cankles. Oh, joy!
A lyin’ woman is a lyin’ woman...no matter her politics.
Hey Baps, STFU!
The Schnoz teams up with the Cankles. Oh, joy!
Excuse me? Judged by WHAT merits and WHAT resume? You have a right to be whatever you want Barbara, but do take out time to shut up.
Blow it out yer ass hussy . . . .
She paid off his debts when they got married. Clue number one.
She must have missed all the slings about Trump's way of speaking (blowhard) and Carson's (asleep) and Rubio's (frenetic) and Christie's (fear mongering).
Her "Bats in the Belfrey" postings on it, and the subsequent discussion of those postings by FReepers, provided many a LOL back in the day.
Barbra Streisand: You know who I am, don’t you?
Officer Barbrady: Well, you ain’t Fiona Apple, and if you ain’t Fiona Apple, I don’t give a rat’s ass.
LOL!!! 100%
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