Great tweet storm on the sexism against Hillary by Melissa McEwan

[Fast Walker 52]

https://twitter.com/shakestweetz/status/774227317342269440

The media are engaging in the most basic form of sexism: Treating a highly qualified woman & a man w/ zero experience as equally qualified.

It's not a coincidence that every male pres candidate was expected to have some level of competence 'til the guy running against a woman.

Now suddenly a man with no political experience, no serious policy proposals, no credibility, no honesty, & no decency is considered viable.

Indulging Trump's unfitness isn't happening in a vacuum, but in the context of a history of low bars set for men competing against women.

This is exactly how the rules get changed when women strive in across our culture. The standards are altered so talent no longer matters.

Standards based on talent & competence are replaced with standards of personality, likability, and optics. Sound familiar?

Women trailblazers in every field play by the rules delineated for success, then the rules get changed by the gatekeepers.

This is harmful and indecent when it governs the rules of access in any space, but when it's the presidency, it's terrifyingly dangerous.

It reverberates. And it confers legitimacy on this strategy to be used against women & girls in every arena. The media are playing w/ fire.

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. K & R

[sarae]

2. K&R

[jalan48]

3. The media treated Trump this way last summer in the Republican primary.

The media created Trump as a "viable" candidate knowing his sexist history.

[yallerdawg]

4. Who could have predicted grown men and women...

would have voted for a TV celebrity/provocateur over competent, experienced, conservative politicians?

The "press" has less than 2 months to fix this. It looks like they are finally coming around.

But beware!

[lupinella]

5. Loved this! n/t

[senseandsensibility]

6. k and r

[LAS14]

7. As another take on this, may I suggest...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512406612

[spooky3]

8. It's not "grading on the curve." It's discriminatorily setting a much lower std for the man than

for the woman. And the differences in qualifications are not limited to differences in relevant experience.

[niyad]

9. k and r for truth

[AgadorSparticus]

10. It is so blindingly brazen, it hurts. Just horrible.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. WOA! Goddammit, Melissa McEwan analyzes sexism in the true political meaning of the word.

Gender politics.

Oh I want to say more but it's past my bedtime.....

I may have to sign up for Twitter.

[Ligyron]

12. Some famous woman (and I forget who)

Said that for a woman to succeed in any given field she has to be twice as good as a man and that, fortunately, this was not hard to do.

So true...

[Fast Walker 52]

13. LOL!