Women, behave yourselves…01 Mar 2007 10:06 am
Work-Life 
Hello Everyone:
Are women too wacky to become president?
I have a treat for you. Please click on the link below and you’ll see Bill Maher’s “New Rules” bit last night about how women need to control themselves at least until a women president is elected. He maintains that Hillary Clinton will never be elected president until women stop acting crazy. The misogynists among us, he says, will use any excuse to label women emotional and led around by their hormones.
Start the video and then jump to the part where you see Brittany Spear’s bald head. That’s when the fun begins.
March 1st, 2007 at 12:58 pm
It’s the same thing we as African-Americans have been harping at ourselves for decades. You have to be the best, the brightest…set an example. You can’t give “them” any reason to stereotype you.
So a large extent that is true. People expect the worst of what they think they know of you as a group. Which is why Senator Biden’s comment about Barack Obama being “articulate” was so offensive. What do “they” expect from us, dis an’dat, dem and dey, ebonics, curse words, slang…what?
But in the end, we have to realize, people are just people. All women cannot be excluded from the opportunity to lead, because some idiot shaves her head. That’s like saying, no President can ever hail fom Texas…and you know what I saying.
March 1st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
oh yeah, i do know what you’re saying.
while you can’t stop some women from acting the fools, these wackos do give the naysayers ammunition. we can’t deny that.
March 2nd, 2007 at 7:36 am
*In the great topic, shameless plug, department.
Check out my poem/picture book, If Mom Were President.
Personally, I find it both funny and disheartening that people find it necessary to attack stereotypes. Every sub-group (cultural or ideaology) falls prey to it.
Stereotypes are easy targets because they form the caricature of what the sub-group really espouses.
To be sure, there are sub-groups or ideologies that are, in fact, caricatures themselves. But we need to be careful of the easy jab instead of a meaningful discussion.
March 5th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
i just think that it is socially acceptable for men to make ‘mistakes’ but it is not for women. boys will be boys…….
March 5th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
i think there might be something to that eileen.