Bill Maher utters the 7 predictable words
Tonight on Real Time, Maher said something about what the Bush administration had done to "the working man." Mary Frances Berry, one of the panelists, said "The working woman, too. You said just 'the working man.'"
Then he said it: "There are so many more important issues. Don't hang me up here."
That is what people always say when they are called on using sexist language.
What if Maher had said "the working woman?" Wouldn't most of the men in the audience have objected? What if he had said "working white people"?
What would it have cost him to say "working people?"
Then he said it: "There are so many more important issues. Don't hang me up here."
That is what people always say when they are called on using sexist language.
What if Maher had said "the working woman?" Wouldn't most of the men in the audience have objected? What if he had said "working white people"?
What would it have cost him to say "working people?"
posted by Diane at 10:25 PM
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Yes, I saw it as well. Sometimes I think that Bill is wearing blinders. He concentrates on flash points that could affect an up-coming election while seemingly oblivious to the underlying issues that divide us as a people.
Is there no one on his staff telling him that his audience majority is likely upwardly-mobile, well-educated women? It occurs to me that the greatest gains to be realized for any political movement in this country will come from women, and even if he doesn't have the sensitivity to truly try to change his attitudes, I'd think he'd at least be politically astute enough to realize that he's upsetting his audience.
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