Two recent articles that are well worth reading if you think of yourself as a liberal/progressive or just a decent human being.......

This from Amy Siskind.....

......Witnessing the horrific treatment of Senator Clinton during the 2008 Presidential Primary, many women of this country joined forces and said: “Never again!”

I'm far from convinced, but I do think we should consider a unity ticket.

And then he ended that really awful remark with the word "appeal", as in "sex appeal" or what, Barack?

Karen Stabiner, over at Huffington Post, has a new diary entitled The Change Candidate Needs to Change His Tone Towards Women. Her diary concerns Senator Obama's particular choice of words in response to someone's question at a televised campaign stop.

Unconscious sexism, in my opinion, is even more widespread than unconscious racism. That's why I was happy to see Karen's diary.

Below is what I sent in an email to IAVA and others. How does it make you feel? What are your thoughts?

I and some others just saw your new video.

We are not happy.

I have been a big supporter of IAVA and Paul Rieckhoff. I am also a big Wes Clark supporter and when you do things like this it makes me question my support.

Why is this video a good thing? Seems like something the righties would put together.

With all that goes on with women in the military getting raped, mistreated, etc. ... why is it a good thing for IAVA to sex up war? To use women in a sexist way?

Found the following diary at MyDD.com and feel that this is very important. Not just because of who said it and who it was said about, but because it is WRONG for CNN to be supporting this guy.. thing!

Tell me what you think and what we can do about this.

From MyDD.com
http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/3/18/142556/269

This is seriously unacceptable:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200703150011

What are you feelings on this? This list does seem so... lacking. What do you believe the reasons for this are? Now I am not advocating Senator Clinton for President but if we can not get Clark would she or another qualified woman not be a viable candidate?

Seems there should be more to this list. Women in this country have come a long ways but with the help of the media, some of that has been taken away (just think about it).

WOMEN'S MILESTONES IN US POLITICS

1916
Jeanette Rankin, R-Mont., became the first woman elected to the House.

1920
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote.

1922
Rebecca Latimer Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to serve in the Senate. She was appointed to fill temporarily a vacant seat and served for only two days.

1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross, D-Wyo., became the first woman governor, after she was elected to replace her deceased husband.

1925
Rep. Mae Ella Nolan, R-Calif., became the first woman to chair a congressional committee, when she headed the committee on expenditures in the Post Office Department.

1931
Sen. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, D-Ark., was appointed to the Senate to succeed her deceased husband. She later became the first woman elected to the Senate.

1933
Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in the Cabinet, when President Roosevelt appointed her secretary of labor.

1981
Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman on the Supreme Court.

1984
Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro, D-N.Y., became the first woman to run on a major party's national ticket, when she was selected by Democrat Walter Mondale as his vice presidential running mate.

2007
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., becomes first female speaker of the House this week. She became the first woman to head her party in Congress when she was elected House minority leader in 2002.

I went to my mailbox and somehow got on N.O.W.'s mailing List. No surprize, as I have my name on alot of mailing list I have no idea how I got on them. Anyway, do you know what their new slogan is,,, "Trust Women".. Now isn't that just about as sexist as a slogan that reads 'Trust Men"? For God's Sake will you people stop trying to pump Hillary down our throats. She can not get 1/4 of the male vote. If that don't smell loser, you people need a reality check!
Ah, but today a woman was speaking about how conterproductive gossup is. Then she took it a bit further and said that women gossup more than men.