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[andrewducker]

"No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age."

[Poll #324231]

Sigh

Comments

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

That would be political suicide in the States.

Well, I hope.

nope

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Our right wing says things like that all the time.

Their base eats it up, other folks hold their nose, and pull the lever for them because they think the git will lower their taxes.

Re: nope

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Ew.

Re: nope

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute, do you mean the right wing in the States? Because that's where I am, and I STILL can't see it being anything other than political suicide.

Unless, like, Arnold said it, and he has a layer of shock value protection, being who he is and all.

Re: nope

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Nah, there's a few former Dixiecrats, both Democrat (Byrd) and Republican (Lott), still holding seats in our government despite the stupid things they've said and done.

Re: nope

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. But despite the things they've said and done, they've never made -- as far as I can tell -- such blatant and, well, rude statements about women.

It's a weird dichotomy. In the States you can still make incredibly controversial racial comments but very few people are willing to take on the gender role issue.

Re: nope

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Pretty much all the nasty things Democrats said about women were in the 20's and earlier, if I recall correctly. Woman suffragists were anti-Democrat to the point where it very much concerned the few Democrats at the time who did support the right for women to vote. Once women were able to vote, it wasn't all that bright for the majority of the politicians to insult 50% of the voting population. Now it's more a trend for politicians to treat women like objects (Condit, Clinton) than for them to say anything truly insulting about them.

Re: nope

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

Now, if we were talking about the messages conveyed by ACTIONS rather than words, I'd say that our politicians are just as bad as the British guy in Andrew's post.

Re: nope

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Our left wing does that as well. Republicans don't have a monopoly on stupidity in the country, unfortunately. Jimmy Carter spoke that people should be allowed to keep the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. Fritz Hollings likes to use the words "darkies" and "wetbacks". Jesse Jackson called NYC "Hymietown". Partisan politics seem to require that people forget that their own party can be guilty of the same trangressions as the party they're against. Good thing the Civil Rights movement was bi-partisan, otherwise the US would still be stuck in the 19th century.