Letters to the Editor
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Hillary the War Hawk
Plus people don't want another round of Clintons after they've suffered through a long round of Bush's is why Hillary is having such a hard time. Time for new blood, new ideas, and a new direction. I think the whole gender vote thing is overblown.
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Of course
I'm so weak-willed a woman I talked my formerly-Clinton-supporting husband into voting for Obama.
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Men "ixnay" the chick flick choice - WTF??
Almost all the time I go out to a movie with my gf, we end up seeing a chick flick. I don't have a huge problem with this, e.g. "P.S. I Love You" was alright.
(And when I hang out with the guys, we go catch an action movie, dumb/fun "duuuude" comedy like SuperBad, etc. - so my film consumption balances out)
This is a pretty common experience with my guy friends and their gfs as well - if it's a date-type night, the girls usually choose the movie.
So WHERE exactly are all these couples with controlling men who abjectly refuse to let their wives/gfs see a chick flick with them?
And are we to believe they exist in such high numbers so as to influence election voting?!?!
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Mick LaSalle is terrible.
He's a terrible movie reviewer, and a generally contemptible human being. He has a Sunday Q&A column, which is basically a space given to him to mock his readers and act out his Napoleon complex in print. Despicable. This is just the latest black mark on his record, IMHO.
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Chick Flick?
Women don't have to tell their husbands who they are voting for. He doesn't have to know. What a crappy article!
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Ridiculous
More sexist garbage!
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La what now?
Oh yeah, THAT'S why Obama's winning.
Banging head against the wall.
Next time anyone claims that the Obama supporters are a bunch of loose nut fanatics, I should link to this guy's blog.
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DEPENDS ON YOUR GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
His point isn't ridiculous at all. If you think women make up their minds independently of their husbands, you haven't lived in many areas of the south. Sixteen million southern Baptists believe, according to their charter, that men are the rulers of their households, and women should do as they are told.
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we're all just slaves to our husbands and sex drives
I can't decide if that's more or less offensive than the pundit I heard on the radio this week arguing that women are voting for Obama because they think he's hawt. It was a woman - actually a spokesperson for the Clinton campaign. I don't see how she was helping her cause either - insult women into voting for the female candidate?! What?!
Maybe (shocking thought here!) the women who are voting for Obama think he's the best candidate!
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The Movie Reviewer Guy Isn't Paying Attention
I didn't vote for her because I didn't like her vote on Iran, even though it was symbolic.
Yesterday, I was glad I didn't vote for her because she was the only senate Democrat missing on the telephone company spying amnesty vote.
Obama voted against amnesty. I'm glad I voted for him in the primary.
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Mick LaSalle and Hillary are different issues
If you think that there aren't men who cajole, suggest, wheedle, watch-over-the-shoulders-of or downright threaten women to vote the way they want them to vote, you are very much mistaken. I work in the field of 'mental health' as an advanced practice nurse and I see shit like this all the time. I'm saddened that this flies so under your radar. Just because there are voting booths does not mean a thing for women's voting rights if there are violent men standing just outside the curtain - let alone those states that vote solely by mail. Are you kidding or what?
Granted, Mick LaSalle is too stupid to live, but there are other things going on here.
esharenov
a liberal female voter of a certain age
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That wasn't his point
DEPENDS ON YOUR GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
His point isn't ridiculous at all. If you think women make up their minds independently of their husbands, you haven't lived in many areas of the south. Sixteen million southern Baptists believe, according to their charter, that men are the rulers of their households, and women should do as they are told.
--Anonymous
Of course they exist, but do you think those kind of people would vote for Obama? Those are the Huckabee voters, not the ones putting Obama over the top.
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Southern Democrats are not Southern Baptists
Those Southern Baptists are voting for Huckabee, but neither Democrat. My mother and I were raised in a Southern Baptist church, but I had ERA stickers on my stroller.
There are plenty of women in the south that follow along with their husband, but most southern Democrat women voted for whomever they darn well please. Think Molly Ivans and Ann Richards for starters. Hilary won Arkansas by a landslide, for example.
My dad went for Clinton and I (a woman) voted for Obama. He and I straddle the Mason-Dixon line and no one I know told anyone, male or female, to vote. What a silly article!
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Might be more truth than fiction
Yesterday on a Progressive radio site a woman called in
to say that when she went to vote, she voted for Obama because her husband told her that a womam could not be a good President. She said he told her she could vote for McCain or
Obama but not Clinton. Asked what she would do if it was
between Obama and McCain, she said she would vote for McCain.
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What I know about women
Just as many men are sexist -- women fear strong women and hate them consciously and unconsciously as well. Just read the blogs posted here on this article!
In the words of Madeleine Albright: "There is a place waiting in Hell for women who don't support women."
So have fun in Hell.
Hillary 08
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joejoe:
People still believe in Hell? Goodness - I thought the Universalists got us out of that theological thicket almost 200 years ago.
Proof that Hillary supporters are stuck in the past, no?
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My husband loves chick flicks
probably more than me, but I'd never let him vote for Hillary.
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the subservient ones ...
... those women who believe that they should submit to their husbands, aren't going to vote (rather, won't be directed to vote) for Obama or Clinton. Those that voted so far went for Huckabee, and in the general they will either stay home or vote for McCain.
So that kind of thing is a non-issue in the primary.