NOW assails White House “sexism” on treatment of Yellen

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2013-09-24 18:37

Article here. Excerpt:

'In a Tuesday interview with Salon, National Organization of Women President Terri O’Neill blasted the White House’s approach to choosing a replacement for Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke. “The signals I’m seeing from the White House is that his advisors – and he tends to agree with them – that they are still looking for someone other than Janet Yellen,” O’Neill told Salon. “And to me that’s just pure sexist.” NOW endorsed Obama for president last July.

“I mean, there’s only two differences between Janet Yellen and all those men,” said O’Neill. “Number one, she’s more qualified than all of them are. And number two, she’s a woman. And so looking for somebody other than Janet Yellen, I don’t know how you classify that as anything but sexist.”
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While “there is no question that Barack Obama is a friend to women in the policies that he supports,” O’Neill said that “when even he has trouble picking the best qualified person who happens to be a woman, I think that is a startling reminder that even our friends who are men are so used to being in control that so far putting a woman in that position just doesn’t compute for them.” She said the episode reinforced the need to elect more female politicians, including a female president.'

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If NOW's prez says it's sexism, then that's what it has to be. If POTUS were a female, like Hillary Clinton for example, but also didn't want to nominate Janet Yellen in favor of some other *gasp* male candidate, would that, too, be sexism? Is Terry O'Neill being sexist by assuming Obama's motivations are sexist-- because he's male? Am I sexist for suggesting Terry O'Neill might be sexist because she's saying Obama is sexist and she's female so I'm assuming she's sexist because she's female while assuming a male is sexist, assuming that's why she's assuming he is sexist, and so on, and so forth, yada yada yada...

It's enough to make your head spin 'til you blow chow.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-09-25 03:41