Sexist Tweet of the Day: Donald Trump Edition

Via Addicting Info: Comedian Lenny Jacobson did a screen capture of this sexist retweeted fired off by Donald Trump.

I wonder if Trump is clueless or just works hard at being a douche. Trump's own children have begged him to stop talking about politics. Trump's kids know that he is hurting the family's brand name.

Porn Stars Read Their Hate Mail & Tweets

Via Jenny Kutner of Salon: It is insane the amount of creepiness and sexism porn stars deal with online. There are men that watch porn endlessly watch porn and attack the pornstars they watch. I got in the middle of of an attack on Mia Malkova after I wrote on Malkova's mother accepting her daughter's career choice. The user has been suspended. All he basically did on Twitter was attack women. You can read the responses Malkova and I had with Super Randy.

If you don't like female pornstars then don't watch porn. The hypocrisy of guys whacking off to porn and then attacking female pornstars on the internet takes stupid to new levels.

Troll of the Day

This anonymous winner is leading a boycott of women.

I am an American man, and I have decided to boycott American women. In a nutshell, American women are the most likely to cheat on you, to divorce you, to get fat, to steal half of your money in the divorce courts, don’t know how to cook or clean, don’t want to have children, etc. Therefore, what intelligent man would want to get involved with American women?

American women are generally immature, selfish, extremely arrogant and self-centered, mentally unstable, irresponsible, and highly unchaste. The behavior of most American women is utterly disgusting, to say the least.

And we are to believe this guy is the role model for mental stability? I think not.

Meet the Kappa Beta Phi of Wall Street

Journalist Kevin Roose infiltrated the party of the Wall Street secret society Kappa Beta Phi. What Roose found is Wall Street titans gleefully making fun of woman, gays and how they got bailout money after the economy crashed in 2008.

The new inductees to Kappa Beta Phi had to dress in drag. Remember, these are the people Republicans say are too heavily taxed because they are job creators.

Paul Queally, of Welsh, Carson, Anderson, & Stowe, brought Ted Virtue, of MidOcean Partners, for a Q and A that involved telling sexist jokes about Hillary Clinton.

Q: “What’s the biggest difference between Hillary Clinton and a catfish?” A: “One has whiskers and stinks, and the other is a fish”

Queally also told a homophobic joke about former Congressman Barney Frank.

Q: “What’s the biggest difference between Barney Frank and a Fenway Frank?” A: “Barney Frank comes in different-size buns”

Investment banker Warren Stephens sang a reworked version of Dixie on how Wall Street went to the Federal Reserve for money after they blew up the economy.

“In Wall Street land we’ll take our stand, said Morgan and Goldman. But first we better get some loans, so quick, get to the Fed, man.”

The new inductees sang a reworked version of "I Believe" from The Book of Mormom. In this version God was going to give these future Masters of the Universe seven figure bonuses.

“I believe that God has a plan for all of us. I believe my plan involves a seven-figure bonus.”

Roose was discovered recording the dinner party. Alexandra Lebenthal, President & CEO, Lebenthal & Co, LLC, and investor Wilbur Ross attempted to bribe Roose into killing his story.

But the extent of their worry wasn’t made clear until Ross offered himself up as a source for future stories in exchange for my cooperation.

“I’ll pick up the phone anytime, get you any help you need,” he said.

“Yeah, the people in this group could be very helpful,” Lebenthal chimed in. “If you could just keep their privacy in mind.”

There are very powerful people in the financial industry in Kappa Beta Phi. They make jokes about receiving bailout money. The americans that lost their jobs and homes didn't get billions of dollars from the federal government.

Quote of the Day: Ted Nugent Edition

"What’s A Feminist? Some Fat Pig Who Doesn’t Get It Often Enough?"

Ted Nugent, on VH1′s Behind the Music Remastered.

I usually ignore Nugent. I'm pointing this out since Mitt Romney sought Nugent's endorsement. Iff Romney wants to appear on the news talk shows then I see no reason of pointing out the stupidity of Romney linking himself to Nugent.

Republican War on Women Continues Against Sandra Fluke

The Maine Republican Party posted this image of Sandra Fluke on their Facebook page. It has since been taken down.

"Can't afford birth control," the post read. "Paid $1740 filing fee to run for Congress."

The Republican Party wonders why people are accusing them of having a war on women. The Bangor Daily News grabbed the screen shot.

Sandra Fluke is running for the State Senate in California. The only reason the Maine Republican Party weighed in is because they wanted to bash Sandra Fluke for standing up for female reproductive rights.

Quote of the Day

I bet the Abortion Barbie fan club just fainted at that.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 29, 2014

Conservative blogger Erick Erickson's response to President Barack Obama calling for women to receive equal pay for equal work. Erickson is the conservative version of Courtney Love on Twitter. Both Erickson and Love are a danger to themselves on Twitter.

Online Stalking Is Real Just Ask Jill Filipovic

Jill Filipovic of Feministe has written about how she was the target of online harassment from the online message board AutoAdmit. People on the board started making comments that they were seeing her on the NYU campus. Obviously, Filipovic felt vulnerable and spent as less time as possible on campus.

It was generally harmless, if a little creepy — stuff like “Jill F is my future wife” and “Any Jill F sightings yet?” It seemed to come primarily from one poster. So I ignored it for a while again, until someone else mentioned it to me. So I went back and read it, and saw that it was getting weirder and grosser — there were mentions of “tag teaming” me, people who said they saw me around school and I was nothing special, comments that I was a feminist bitch and assorted other names, and finally one saying that he “would hate-fuck that cunt.” That put me a little over the edge, and I skipped a day or two of school and started studying at home for about a week, just so I wouldn’t have to walk around campus. I know it sounds crazy (and I definitely felt crazy), but everywhere I went at school I felt like people were looking at me, and like they were evaluating me — like they must have been thinking, “Oh, she isn’t pretty at all” or “Those guys on the board were totally wrong” or “She’s fat” or “I’d fuck her” or, the worst, that they were the people doing the posting, and they were going to go home and write about how they saw me and I was indeed ugly, or I was fuckable, or I was a bitch. It wasn’t so much negative comments that got to me — it was the evaluation of something that I have no control over, in a space where I’m not putting myself out to be evaluated. Nothing I can do is going to change their opinion of whether or not I’m attractive, and I don’t really care all that much if they think I am or not. But I do care when I feel like I can’t walk to class without people looking at me and then anonymously posting their thoughts online, and when they aren’t taking on what I say or what I believe, but what I look like — and when I’m being put in a position where I can’t fight back. If they say, “You’re wrong about feminism,” I can say, “No I’m not” and I can explain why. But if they say, “You’re ugly,” I can’t really say, “No I’m not.” It’s a feeling of powerlessless, and it’s a position that I’m not used to being placed in.

This is the kind of comments Filipovic received in a long thread on AutoAdmit attacking her.

Date: August 9th, 2008 11:13 PM

She's in Southeast Asia, killing babies and getting fucked up the ass by rice farmers.

Anybody here know that bitch?

Filipovic wrote about the sexist comments made about her on AutoAdmit on her blog and was interviewed by the media. Filipovic and other female law students received harassing comments on AutoAdmit.

AutoAdmit webmaster blamed Anthony Ciolli blamed Filipovic for having a job offer rescinding.

My impression from the phone conversation was that this was the chronology:

1) Jill Filipovic from Feministe tells WSJ that I worked at EAP&D

2) WSJ reporter calls EAP&D, and the firm says I had my offer rescinded.

3) WSJ reporter emails me saying they’re going to run a story on it tomorrow.

Believe me, the last thing I wanted was this to be public. I just want to be left alone.

Filipovic explains that she played no part in the law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge rescinded its offer to Ciolli. Unlike Ciolli, Filipovic takes responsibility for what is posted on her website.

There are many things I’ve written that I no longer agree with, and many issues that I’ve changed my mind on. There are many things I’ve posted here that I wish I hadn’t. But they’re mine, and if I’m called out on them, I’ll take responsibility for writing them — I won’t blame Lauren or Zuzu or Piny for owning the site with me, or for not taking them down.

Filipovic has a op-ed at Talking Points Memo that lists the nasty comments made about her at AutoAdmit.

"Official Jill Filipovic RAPE thread"

"I want to brutally rape that Jill slut"

"I'm 98% sure that she should be raped"

“that nose ring is fucking money, rape her immediately”

“what a useless guttertrash whore, I hope that someone uses my pink, fleshy-textured cylindrical body to violate her”

“she deserves a brutal raping”

“Legal liability from posting pic of Jill fucking?”

“she’s a normal-sized girl that I’d bang violently, maybe you’d have to kill her afterwards”

Now imagine being a young woman and wondering if one of those AutoAdmit commenters is stalking you around campus. It is no wonder Filipovic skipped a few classes. I'm not a First Amendment attorney but the AutoAdmit comments are probably protected free speech. We have Constitution in this country. That doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole online.

Ugly Sexism on Hannity's Show

This is low even by Fox News standards. Bill Cunningham repeatedly makes sexist attacks and wags his finger in the face of Tamara Holder. Apparently, Holder's crime was pointing out that President George W. Bush raised the debt ceiling 8 times. Cunningham responded to that by making snide remarks about Holder's appearance and told her she wasn't smart enough to understand math. Naturally, Hannity defended Cunningham.

Quote of the Day II: Sexist Preacher Edition

"It is wrong for a wife to refuse sex to her husband."

Steven Anderson, pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona

Anderson also wants the death penalty for homosexuals. What a nice guy.

Anderson said these bizarre things on Irish program.

17:50: Anderson talks about the social order in his household.

39:05: Someone asks what the pastor would do if he came home, wanted sex, and his wife said no.

51:00: The host asks Anderson what he thinks about homosexuality.

1:04:16: After the host blasts Anderson for taking the Bible too literally.

Anderson needs to actually read the Bible. The Bible has no mention of dinosaurs. If humans actually existed the same time humans wouldn't be around for very wrong. Apparently, Anderson watched too many episodes of Land of the Lost when he was a kid.

Anderson recites the Creationists talking point that carbon dating isn't real science because it is done with a geiger counter. Actually, a geiger counter is used to detecting radiation. A Accelerator mass spectrometry is used for carbon dating C-14 radioactive decay in carbon samples. Carbon dating isn't the same as using a geiger counter to look for jewelry on the beach.

Update: During the interview, Anderson tells a caller that her daughter is dressing like a whore because she is wearing a miniskirt. Did guy is extremely sexist.

Update: Ron Ferry posted this comment on Sulia about Pastor Steven Anderson.

Roy Ferry: Since I live near Tempe where this cretin has his church, I'm familiar with him. Among other things, he believes that women should not vote, that married women should not work outside the home, that women should be totally subservient to their husbands, that all contraceptives should be banned and that there is no such thing as mental illness. By the way, his "church" is located within a somewhat run down strip mall; and he works installing fire alarms to support his wife and seven children. Apparently, his ministry, or whatever you want to call it, isn't racking in the money and that's a good thing.

It is amazing that Christian leaders that preach intoleratnce, such as Tampa's Terry Kemple and David Caton, and the Westboro Baptist Church, have virtually no following. Yet these xenophobic fundamentalists get so much publicity. The media has failed badly in covering religion in America.

Quote of the Day

"Oh my God, yeah! It's constant! It's how you're treated, it's how you're looked at, how you're expected to look in a photoshoot, it's how you're expected to shut up and not have an opinion, it's how you... If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss."

Actress Ellen Page, on facing sexism in the movie industry.

Jim Allen's Racist Rant Against Erika Harold

Erika Harold is a former Miss America and Harvard law graduate. You would think people would have respect for Harold's accomplishment. Apparently, Jim Allen, Republican chairman of Montgomery County, Illinois, makes up a total racist fiction in his mind about Harold's background. This was the blog comment Allen originally posted at Republican News Watch. The comment has been deleted.

“Rodney Davis will win and the love child of the D.N.C. will be back in S---cago [Expletive deleted] by May of 2014 working for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires,” Allen wrote in the email. “ . . . Miss queen is being used like a street walker and her pimps are the DEMOCRAT PARTY and RINO REPUBLICANS.”

I have blogged about so many racist Republican emails, flyers and blog comments that it is now old hat. Republicans can't just say it is just a few bad apples. THere is a racism problem in the GOP.

Quote of the Day

"And if another Republican man says anything about rape other than it is a horrific, violent crime, I want to personally cut out his tongue. The college-age daughters of many of my friends voted for Obama because they were completely turned off by Neanderthal comments like the suggestion of 'legitimate rape.'"

Karen Hughes, former political advisor to President George W. Bush

The sad thing is I don't see the sexism from old Republican men ending anytime soon. It really says something when former Bush advisors Hughes and Matthew Does think the Republican Party is too extreme. Who would ever think the Bush political team would become the GOP moderates.

Joe Scarborough Dismisses Early Voting Suppression

Joe Scarborough is one of the most insufferable people on the planet. Which is why Scarborough is has a morning show. That same morning show gets its ass kicked in the ratings by the dreadful Fox & Friends, but that is another story. Scarborough comes off so condescendingly to his co-host Mika Brzezinski. Scarborough attempted to stop Brzezinski from talking about early voting problems in Miami-Dade county. Scarborough then rants on about how attempts to suppress votes are nothing but conspiracy theories. Fellow Republican Christine Todd Whitman knows much more about voting than the uninformed Scarborough. Whitman has harsh words for the way early voting has been handled in Florida.

"I don't know what went on in Florida, but I do have to say that in this day and age, it's inexcusable that in this country, we have anything like this going on." she said. "I've led delegations around the world to watch voting and this is the kind of thing you expect in a third-world country, not in the United States of America."

Whitman is a trained election monitor. I wonder if Scarborough thinks she is a conspiracy theorist. More likely, Scarborough would just put fingers in his ears and keep screaming "Benghazi." I have questions about Benghazi myself. However, I rarely get paid to be a journalist. Scarborough does. I don't expect Scarborough has the intellectual tools to do investigative journalism. It will never occur to Scarborough to travel to Egypt or spend hours trying to get documents leaked to him. Scarborough will just shout "Benghazi" like a little boy throwing a temper tantrum.

Side note: why does Mika Brzezinski put up with Scarborough?

Update: People outside the Miami-Dade county polling station chanting, "Let us vote." Perhaps their minds would have changed if Scarborough lectured them on how their votes weren't being suppressed. Never mind that the polling station temporarily shut its doors.

Binders Full of Women

People have been making fun of Mitt Romney's sexist-sounding "binders full of women" comment on Twitter. There is now a Binders Full of Women parody blog on Tumbler.

Update: The internet is having photoshop fun with Romney's "binders" comment.

Update: John Kerry is mocking Mitt Romney on Twitter.

Quote of the Day

"Yes, President Obama is very likable to most people, if you just look at him and his family. But if you look at his policies, which is what most people disagree with, it’s a different story. And I think many men are much more familiar with the failed policies than a lot of other people, as well as the general public."

Herman Cain, on Fox News, saying that women (other people) aren't smart enough to understand President Obama's policies.

This is horrible territory for Cain to venture into. Cain had to end his campaign because of allegations of sexual harassment. Cain couldn't even explain his own policy positions. Which is why he became a walking punch line on the campaign trail.

Litbrit on the Nicole Sandler Show

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Litbrit appears on Nicole Sander's talk radio/internet show. You can catch Deb's British accent at the 35 minute mark. Sandler and Deb talk the Anthony Weiner controversy.

Deb and Sandler agree that Weiner's defense of not saying at whether or not that photo is of him is incredibly lame. I was disturbed by Weiner's office threatening to arrest a journalist.

Deb makes the observation that female politicians don't do sex scandals. Perhaps because the career-minded women that enter elected office know the media will crucify them. The media was often harsh to Hillary Clinton during her time as First Lady. Bill Clinton's approval ratings went up during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. There is a double standard.

What's the Most Sexist Thing You've Heard at Work?

The ACLU has a Facebook page asking people what was the most sexist thing they heard or experienced in the workplace.

Quote of the Day

"What's the difference between selling out your party's values and the oldest profession?"

Joe Miller, comparing his Republican Senate primary opponent Lisa Murkowski to a prostitute.

Progressive Sexism

Megham McCain got grief for posting a picture of yourself on Twitter. Cenk Uygur of the The Young Turks said McCain was "asking for it." Could a progressive pundit use a worse choice of words than Uygur.

Keith Olbermann refered to conservative blogger Michele Malkin "as a mashed-up bag of meat." Another poor choice of words.

[Malkin's] total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.

Progressives, you can diagree with a conservative woman, without making sexist remarks. Progressive values are about promoting equality. Not bashing women.