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samedi 2 février 2008

Goodbye To All That (#2)

par Robin Morgan






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So hard to say goodbye







“Goodbye To All That” was my (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially affecting women (for an online version, see blog).

During my decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women’s movements, I’ve avoided writing another specific “Goodbye . . .” But not since the suffrage struggle have two communities-joint conscience-keepers of this country-been so set in competition, as the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) and Barack Obama (BO) unfurls. So.

Goodbye to the double standard . . .

 Hillary is too ballsy but too womanly, a Snow Maiden who’s emotional, and so much a politician as to be unfit for politics.
 She’s “ambitious” but he shows “fire in the belly.” (Ever had labor pains ?)
 When a sexist idiot screamed “Iron my shirt !” at HRC, it was considered amusing ; if a racist idiot shouted “Shine my shoes !” at BO, it would’ve inspired hours of airtime and pages of newsprint analyzing our national dishonor.
 Young political Kennedys-Kathleen, Kerry, and Bobby Jr.-all endorsed Hillary. Senator Ted, age 76, endorsed Obama. If the situation were reversed, pundits would snort “See ? Ted and establishment types back her, but the forward-looking generation backs him.” (Personally, I’m unimpressed with Caroline’s longing for the Return of the Fathers. Unlike the rest of the world, Americans have short memories. Me, I still recall Marilyn Monroe’s suicide, and a dead girl named Mary Jo Kopechne in Chappaquiddick.)

Goodbye to the toxic viciousness . . .

Carl Bernstein’s disgust at Hillary’s “thick ankles.” Nixon-trickster Roger Stone’s new Hillary-hating 527 group, “Citizens United Not Timid” (check the capital letters). John McCain answering “How do we beat the bitch ?" with “Excellent question !” Would he have dared reply similarly to “How do we beat the black bastard ?” For shame.

Goodbye to the HRC nutcracker with metal spikes between splayed thighs. If it was a tap-dancing blackface doll, we would be righteously outraged - and they would not be selling it in airports. Shame.

Goodbye to the most intimately violent T-shirts in election history, including one with the murderous slogan “If Only Hillary had married O.J. Instead !” Shame.

Goodbye to Comedy Central’s “Southpark” featuring a storyline in which terrorists secrete a bomb in HRC’s vagina. I refuse to wrench my brain down into the gutter far enough to find a race-based comparison. For shame.

Goodbye to the sick, malicious idea that this is funny. This is not “Clinton hating,” not “Hillary hating.” This is sociopathic woman-hating. If it were about Jews, we would recognize it instantly as anti-Semitic propaganda ; if about race, as KKK poison. Hell, PETA would go ballistic if such vomitous spew were directed at animals. Where is our sense of outrage-as citizens, voters, Americans ?

Goodbye to the news-coverage target-practice . . .

The women’s movement and Media Matters wrung an apology from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews for relentless misogynistic comments. But what about NBC’s Tim Russert’s continual sexist asides and his all-white-male panels pontificating on race and gender ? Or CNN’s Tony Harris chuckling at “the chromosome thing” while interviewing a woman from The White House Project ? And that’s not even mentioning Fox News.

Goodbye to pretending the black community is entirely male and all women are white . . .

Surprise ! Women exist in all opinions, pigmentations, ethnicities, abilities, sexual preferences, and ages-not only African American and European American but Latina and Native American, Asian American and Pacific Islanders, Arab American and - hey, every group, because a group wouldn’t exist if we hadn’t given birth to it. A few non-racist countries may exist- but sexism is everywhere. No matter how many ways a woman breaks free from other discriminations, she remains a female human being in a world still so patriarchal that it’s the “norm.”

 Read full text ->The Women’s Media Center, February 2, 2008.

On Sisyphe, February 2, 2008



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