Prometheus 6

Hillary supporters whining.

I think I do pretty well harshing misogynists. The closest I personally came to it was calling her Mrs. Bill Clinton to rhetorically erase the space between her and her husband.

Misogyny there was in this campaign, yes. But can we NOT conflate the competition with the enemy, please?

I will not miss seeing advertisements for T-shirts that bear the slogan "Bros before Hos." The shirts depict Barack Obama (the Bro) and Hillary Clinton (the Ho) and are widely sold on the Internet.

You (well, I) don't defend stuff like this...many better ways to put across its meaning (don't abandon your friends for your new girlfriend).

I will not miss walking past airport concessions selling the Hillary Nutcracker, a device in which a pantsuit-clad Clinton doll opens her legs to reveal stainless-steel thighs that, well, bust nuts. I won't miss television and newspaper stories that make light of the novelty item.

This is what I mean by conflating the competition with the enemy. Those things have been for sale for over a year, and they were created by Republican operatives whose manhood isn't so secure.

I won't miss Citizens United Not Timid (no acronym, please), an anti-Clinton group founded by Republican guru Roger Stone.

Like this one. And her inclusion of this as a complaint about how the Democratic nomination competition was run is just lazy.

I won't miss episodes like the one in which liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes called Clinton a "big [expletive] whore" and said the same about former vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.

But...Randi is a girl.

Political discourse will at last be free of jokes like this one, told last week by magician Penn Jillette on MSNBC: "Obama did great in February, and that's because that was Black History Month. And now Hillary's doing much better 'cause it's White Bitch Month, right?"

That was funny.

I'll be honest. I don't do gendered insults, but neither do I defend those who have earned my enmity, whether the attack was fair or not. Ferraro has earned my enmity to the point that any correction I think of would be along the lines of "She can't be a whore...she'd starve to death."

Yea, though I am brilliant I am still human and flawed.

I won't miss political commentators (including National Public Radio political editor Ken Rudin and Andrew Sullivan, the columnist and blogger) who compare Clinton to the Glenn Close character in the movie "Fatal Attraction." In the iconic 1987 film, Close played an independent New York woman who has an affair with a married man played by Michael Douglas. When the liaison ends, the jilted woman becomes a deranged, knife-wielding stalker who terrorizes the man's blissful suburban family. Message: Psychopathic home-wrecker, begone.

No, the message is, "Clinton relentlessly pursues behavior that is destructive to both Obama and herself." Get sex out of your mind.

The airwaves will at last be free of comments that liken Clinton to a "she-devil"

No they won't. Half the country hated the woman when Kerry was the candidate. How many YEARS has she been called a she-devil? Her campaign this time around has boosted that percentage, and deservedly so.

When all other images fail, there is one other I will not miss. That is, the down-to-the-basics, simplest one: "White women are a problem, that's -- you know, we all live with that" (William Kristol of Fox News).

Again, that has nothing to do with Obama's campaign. Besides, after snuggling up with the folks that accused her of murder (CRUSHING my estimate of her intelligence, by the way), I don't think she has a right to complain when those same folk  jack her. Again.

Don Imus endured more public ire from the political class when he insulted the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

For all the good it did. Don't. Get. Me. Started. 

Would the silence prevail if Obama's likeness were put on a tap-dancing doll that was sold at airports?

Once again, the Hillary nutcracker was a personal shot at HER, not at all women. If you want to compare offenses you have to identify them accurately. The Curious George Obama 08 t-shirts would be a better comparison, don't you think?

Would the media figures who dole out precious face time to these politicians be such pals if they'd compared Obama with a character in a blaxploitation film?

Like one of those drug dealers? 

And how would crude references to Obama's sex organs play?

By Roger Stone, Republican operative?

You're still taking cheap shots at Obama, which (along with those other flaws and miscalculations you breeze past so easily) is what put your ass in the loser's seat.

You want to fight misogyny, I'm with you. You want to defend Clinton, fuck off.