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Does this graphic make you giggle?<\/p>\nDoes this graphic make you giggle?<\/p>\n
Thanks to PRX<\/a>‘s excellent BallotVox<\/a> project, which is identifying some really interesting election coverage from unusual sources, for highlighting a disturbing video<\/a> about sexism in the campaign.<\/p>\n (As an Obama supporter) I don’t think that blaming Obama is really the point. It’s more revealing to me how easily it is for all of us to let things slide. Try mentally replacing every sexist insult in the anti-clinton visuals with an equivalent racial slur and imagine your reactions.<\/p>\n Or imagine reading this sentence in the NY Times: “A majority of those polled \u2014 both whites and blacks \u2014 said they thought Mr. Obama would be an effective diplomat, suggesting he has made headway in diminishing concerns that his race would impede him from dealing with with white world leaders.”<\/p>\n Impossible, right? Try this one:<\/p>\n “A majority of those polled \u2014 both women and men \u2014 said they thought Mrs. Clinton would be an effective commander in chief, suggesting she has made headway in diminishing concerns that her sex would impede her from leading the nation in wartime<\/em>.” Women Supportive but Skeptical of Clinton, Poll Says -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does this graphic make you giggle? Thanks to PRX‘s excellent BallotVox project, which is identifying some really interesting election coverage from unusual sources, for highlighting a disturbing video about sexism in the campaign. (As an Obama supporter) I don’t think that blaming Obama is really the point. It’s more revealing to me how easily it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2221,96,2619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cappucino","category-politics","category-putting-the-public-in-public-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nIf media only reflect the society they serve, maybe it’s time for all of us, men and women, black and white, to look in the mirror?<\/p>\n