Posts Tagged ‘pretty girls’
Huffington Post Just Fucking With Me Now
Via pukeimmediately: And Huffington Post’s sexism spills to the business pages.
Every single business reporter selected for HuffPo’s latest parade of sexism interactive slideshow is a woman. While I love to see women succeeding in business, this particular feature isn’t exactly what I had in mind. Let’s take a look.
This Week In Sexist History: Women’s Suffrage Edition
Newspaper stories from the good old days say the darndest things. So every week on the Sexist, let’s take a ride on journalism’s way-back machine, to a time when men weren’t helpless, girls were pretty enough not to need institutionalized power, and the Speaker of the House was a super-creep with a cigar fetish.
This Week In Sexist History:
Good Old Day: June 23, 1909
Dateline: Washington, D.C.
Keywords: Joseph Gurney Cannon; pretty girls; rolling a cigar reminisciently in one’s mouth; smiling indulgently; women’s suffrage.
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