{"id":88869,"date":"2013-04-14T20:07:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T02:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88869"},"modified":"2013-04-14T20:07:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T02:07:05","slug":"obamas-sexist-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88869","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Sexist Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/04\/11\/obamas-sexist-double-standard\" target=\"_blank\">Cathy Young<\/a> calls him out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This deplorable history of sexism is very real. Yet to insist that any mention of a woman\u2019s attractiveness must therefore be off-limits in any work-related setting is, in effect, to let sexism win. Such a taboo subtly perpetuates, rather than undercut, the notion that a beautiful woman is unlikely to be smart or competent (after all, even to acknowledge her beauty implies it\u2019s the sole basis of her success!). It also promotes a blatant double standard: since men do not face the same cultural burden of being \u201cthe fair sex,\u201d a female politician can compliment a man\u2019s good looks with impunity. (Would eyebrows have been raised if Hillary Clinton had referred to San Francisco\u2019s mayor Gavin Newsom as the country\u2019s best-looking mayor?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy Young calls him out. This deplorable history of sexism is very real. Yet to insist that any mention of a woman\u2019s attractiveness must therefore be off-limits in any work-related setting is, in effect, to let sexism win. Such a taboo subtly perpetuates, rather than undercut, the notion that a beautiful woman is unlikely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88871,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88869\/revisions\/88871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}