Only 5% Of McCain Advisors Are Women

by: Chris Bowers

Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 15:02


Today, the Washington Post reported that vetting for Palin began less than 24 hours before she was offered the job. In a manner now typical of its sudden conversion to an outspoken, feminist organization, the McCain campaign responded by calling the media an "old boys network." Here is the quote:

"This vetting controversy is a faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States who has never been a part of the old boys network that has come to dominate the news establishment in this country."

As part of their born again feminist posturing, it turns out that phallocentric, patriarchical, oppressive organizations like the news media are out to destroy the new wave she-ra's at the McCain campaign. Really, the McCain campaign is the strongest femiist organization to ever come into existence. I mean, of their 121 advisors and staffers listed on wikipedia, 6 are women.

Take that old boys network. The McCain campaign is nearly 5% women. 5%! They are smashing barriers and offering never before heard of opportunities for women. Estrogen-fearing news organizations just can't comprehend an organization being so gynocentric as to actually have fully 5% of its advisors be women. The media better be careful, or else the McCain campaign will loose the mad women in the attic on them.  
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Only 5% Of McCain Advisors Are Women | 2 comments
But Palin is changing that in Alaska (0.00 / 0)
Only 12 of 14 Department Commissioners under her control are run by men.

http://www.state.ak.us/local/c...

That's more than ten percent women! Take that.

And what percentage... (0.00 / 0)
of Obama's advisors were/are women? I don't recall seeing a lot of women's names in his roster. You can talk about hypocrisy, but not when you're being hypocritical.

Democrats need to be careful of the ways they criticize Palin - especially in the blogosphere, which was a phallocentric, sexist/misogynistic bastion during the primaries. If Dems go off on Palin in the juvenile ways I've seen the last few days, it isn't going to help convince the folks out there she's appealing to.

Yes. Fine. Take on her positions, her limited experience, her abuses of power, and her hard-right stands on so many issues. But there's a line. Women know it when we see it and when we hear it...

Only 5% Of McCain Advisors Are Women | 2 comments
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