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Globe’s Beam Is a Moron

11 Responses to “Globe’s Beam Is a Moron”

1. tim Says:
   December 3rd, 2009 at 12:28 am

   At least the comments (mostly) tore him apart for it.

2. Greg Page Says:
   December 3rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm

   Agreed that we don’t hear this stuff about male candidates in a serious forum or from serious talking heads, but once you veer away from that, it’s there…remember “Obama girl” from YouTube? There has been plenty of male candidate-gushing at least as far back as JFK, and probably plenty longer than that..

   Any thoughts on Joan V’s column today? It made me think about your decision to endorse Capuano, which you backed up by talking about his legislative history and issue stances. As far as I’m concerned, that’s your right to do, regardless of your gender. It seems insulting for someone to say that your gender should define your vote, or that voting one way or the other is “right” or “wrong” based on that factor alone..

   The funny thing about being a straight white male is that I can vote for an R or a D, a male or a female, a Caucasian or person of color, and no one ever calls me a “sellout” or tries to make strange psychological observations about me based on how I vote.

3. Brian Flaherty Says:
   December 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 pm

   Beam was on with Jim Braude on NECN last night along with Emily Rooney and Margery Eagan - they spent a lot of time talking about how “foxy” Coakley is. I found it a little sleazy.

4. Greg Page Says:
   December 3rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm

   Hey, just take a look at some of the clips where Chris Matthews talks about Mitt Romney’s manliness. There’s one where — I kid you not — Matthews talks about how you can “almost smell the Musk coming off of [Mitt].”

5. K-R-S Says:
   December 3rd, 2009 at 10:57 pm

   OMG..MItt’s almost Metro..

6. The Messenger Says:
   December 4th, 2009 at 9:28 am

   I don’t know… Smells like a lot of “babe” moniker envy…

7. Lynne Says:
   December 4th, 2009 at 1:34 pm

   Right, I’m envious. I hope you were joking?

   Greg: re sellout or whatever, I can say as a woman, that I am disappointed with the quality of women who are running. If we could please have a strong woman candidate (which both Clinton and Coakley were and are, make no mistake) who is NOT an establishment “frontrunner” consultant-driven candidate adverse to taking a chance on the grassroots instead of running a top-down campaign (an attitude not limited to women candidates) then I would love to vote for her. Nay, I would even be gender-proud to vote for such a woman candidate.

   I will admit part of the problem is, frankly, women pundits, and women in society. There is just too much interest in what First Lady Obama is wearing this season and how much weight Oprah lost or whatever for this all to be on the heads of the rather bland and corporate news pundits - and that interest is NOT coming from the men for the most part. They have to sell papers, and a lot of people who buy them are silly women. I hate to say it, but the Gloria Steinem woman’s movement is pretty much dead. It did a lot of the work necessary but stopped short of total revolution. This is also why the conservatives can chip away at choice and there has been little progress for decades on equal pay. We stopped fighting. We stopped thinking there was a problem. And that sometimes the problem is ourselves.

8. Lynne Says:
   December 4th, 2009 at 1:37 pm

   Oh, and before someone drags it out, this is NOT a criticism of any woman who does not work outside the home but chooses instead to stay home and raise young children. I just wish that it was assumed EITHER parent could make the choice to do so, because in half the cases woman were making more than their husbands and it was more practical, etc.

9. Tim Little Says:
   December 4th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

   Just to throw this out there, I think Franky Descoteaux and Andrea Silbert exemplify the kind of candidate Lynne has in mind. It will be interesting to follow their political careers, should they continue along that path.

   We could use more people like Descoteaux and Silbert running for higher-profile offices. The problem is, the higher the profile of the office, the more we turn a candidate into a caricature. I think this is true of both male and female candidates, right and left, but we have a culture in which it is more acceptable caricature women — foxy, bitchy, ditzy, etc., etc. — than men.

10. Christopher Says:
    December 4th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    RE: Comment #8

    Amen! I’ve thought for a while that women have achieved as much equality as anyone can expect until such time as we can convince husbands/fathers to do their share of the domestic work.

11. Lynne Says:
    December 4th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Oh I am all for the man doing some of the domestic work! I hate that crap. (Alas, the Mr. commutes so much that I take pity on his poor self most of the time.)

    (I assume you meant, “woman have NOT achieved as much equality…until”?)

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