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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.

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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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