[Vision2020] The new The Saga Continues...

Tue Nov 17 17:09:41 PST 2009

I'm with Gary on this one (sorry, Gary).  "Bitchy" and forms thereof may be something leveled at a guy, like "Hey, dude, just stop bitchin' about it!"  But at its core, and as the etymology confirms, it's the denigrating of a woman by likening her to a she-dog.  When McCain staffers called Hillary Clinton a bitch, the offense wasn't that they were mean to her; they could just as easily have said she was "an arrogant a--hole" or something equally snotty.  But "bitch" is the pejorative you need when you want to cut a woman down or put her in her place, and even its recent androgynous use -- along the lines of "Hey, car bitch!  Go get my Corvette!" for the parking valet -- is meant to demean the object as someone worthy of dismissal and denigration.

And women know "dismissal" and "denigration" all too well . . . 

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

From: deco at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:02:27 -0800
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The new The Saga Continues...

I am unaware that calling anyone, man or woman, "bitchy" is 
sexist, but a matter of fact in the context of "arms akimbo."

Perhaps, you need to stop looking at the world through 
keyholes.

W.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  the 
  lockshop 
  To: Art Deco ; Vision 2020 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:40 
  PM
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  I think she looks.....fine. 

  What's amusing is a remark that denies the 
  out of context use of the photo as sexist followed by comment that includes 
  the term "bitchy." 

  g

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: 
    Art Deco 
    To: Vision 2020 
    Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:07 
    PM
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    Perhaps I missed something, but where does it say it was 
    used without permission.  I do not have access to the contract between 
    Runner's World and Ms. Palin, but in my experience such photo shoot 
    contracts give total control of the material created to the payer for the 
    photo shoot.  Perhaps you have other information.

    In any case, Palin did give permission for the photo to be 
    used by Runner's World.  I hardly think the 
    photo sexist, but with her arms akimbo, she does look a little 
    bitchy.

    W.

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: 
      the 
      lockshop 
      To: Art Deco ; Vision 
      2020 
      Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 
      11:40 AM
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      Considering the text on that cover and the 
      fact that the photo was taken for an article to appear in Runners World 
      magazine and used without permission one sort of has to wonder how this 
      rag justifies calling itself "Newsweek." Perhaps Left Wing Opinionweak 
      would be more appropriate. Considering their dwindling circulation, I 
      suppose it hardly matters.

      g

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: 
        Art Deco 

        To: Vision 2020 
        Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 
        9:42 AM
        Subject: [Vision2020] The new The 
        Saga Continues...

        Let's see.  Didn't she pose for the 
        photo at issue for distribution in a magazine, or was that some 
        egregious impostor?

        Palin slams 'sexist' Newsweek cover
        Posted: November 17th, 2009 12:06 PM ET

>From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

        Palin is not happy with the latest Newsweek 
        cover.

        (CNN) - Sarah Palin's image is everywhere as she 
        launches a highly-anticipated book tour this week, but the former Alaska 
        governor is unhappy with at least one media organization's depiction of 
        her.

        Palin took aim at Newsweek's eye-catching cover this week that shows 
        the former vice presidential candidate in her running outfit - an image that was apparently lifted from a 
        Runner's World photo shoot months ago.  Writing on 
        her Facebook page Monday night, Palin said the depiction is 
        flat out "sexist, and oh-so-expected."

        "The choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is 
        unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this 'news' magazine has 
        relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant," Palin 
        wrote. "The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist, and 
        oh-so-expected by now."

        "If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn't 
        judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The media will do 
        anything to draw attention – even if out of context," Palin also 
        said.

        The photo is accompanied by text that states "How Do You Solve A 
        Problem Like Sarah? She's bad news for the GOP - and for everybody else 
        too."

        Palin has held back few punches at the media in the initial stages of 
        her publicity tour.  The former governor slammed 
        the Associated Press for its recent fact check that took 
        issue with several of the memoir's contentions and, in 
        her Oprah appearance that aired Monday, Palin slammed the 
        way the media treated her family during the campaign.

        The Alaska Republican also doesn't hold back in her book, writing at 
        one point, "I had been out of journalism for a long time, and it was 
        pretty obvious the rules had changed. I felt sick about the depths to 
        which some in the press had apparently sunk, not because it was unfair 
        to me and John, but because it was unfair to the American 
        electorate."

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