UK: Daily Mail pans Obama for his "boys' club", with inference to Antichrist characteristics

At the risk of opening a Pandora's Box with this posting, I direct you to this story. Let me be clear: This is not about politics or the recent health care bill that just got passed. This is about how the picture caption is worded, as follows:

"Just another boys' club: Barack Obama, centre on the phone, is surrounded by male aides at the White House as they plot healthcare reform this week in a new image released today. The President has been compared to the Antichrist"

In one paragraph a group of presidential aides, who happen to be all men, and the concept of said president as being the Antichrist, are all mentioned. (Most of us know the the president has a number of female aides as well; they just are not in this particular picture.) I don't see the caption's wording here as a coincidence. This is sexism of the worst kind: An all-male group of men = these being in service to the Antichrist, by inference. Would a picture like this one, if we had a female president surrounded by female aides, get the same kind of wording? I very much doubt it.

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When the Antichrist does arrive it will be in the form of a Girl's Club, like NOW except worse.

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