So...have you ever thought about the term "hysterical" and it's connection to "hysterectomy"? "Hyster" means "womb" and the whole idea that women are irrational and emotional is because of their wombs. Notice that the term is rarely used to discuss men; white men that is. Hysterical was a term used to describe black men back in the day in order to emasculate them (just another way race and gender are so inexorably intertwined!). I know, focus.
So....did anyone catch Senator Lindsey Graham tell Judge Sonia Sotomayor how she would be confirm as long as she didn't have a "meltdown"? What he was saying, as long as you don't get HYSTERICAL, as long as you don't act like men think women act which is IRRATIONAL and EMOTIONAL, you should be okay. And don't even get me started when he read all those complaints about her, it was way for him to be sexist and racist without donning the hood.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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