Tag: misogyny

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson abruptly announces a vacation — right after explaining why his top writer resigned in disgrace

AlterNet logoFox News host Tucker Carlson announced Monday night that he’s going on a vacation — “trout fishing” — for the rest of the week, shortly after addressing the latest inflammatory controversy that has dogged his show.

His top writer, Blake Neff, resigned last week after CNN uncovered that he has been posting online in a forum filled with bigotry. The report found he had engaged with rank racism and sexism on the platform. Many argue that Carlson’s program itself is deeply racist — and it carries overt white supremacist themes — but the language on the forums was even more explicit and unequivocally bigoted.

Carlson addressed the reasons Neff left only obliquely. Continue reading.

Don’t buy Tucker Carlson’s excuse: The Fox News host’s ‘twisted’ and ‘demented’ comments on women reflect his deeply grotesque history of misogyny

Late Sunday, left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters published a lengthy exposé of Tucker Carlson’s years of calling into a shock-jock radio show called “Bubba the Love Sponge” and bro-ing down with the hosts by celebrating their shared animosity towards women.

Researcher Madeline Peltz, in a heroic act of self-sacrifice, clearly listened to hours upon hours of this show and discovered that not only was Carlson game for the contest of “who can be the biggest pig towards women” but was often the clear winner, saying things so repulsive that even the hosts occasionally recoiled, calling his views “twisted” and “demented.”

Carlson minimized child rape, so long as the rapists “married” the victims in legally unbinding ceremonies first, objected to rape shield laws, declared that women “need to be quiet and kind of do what you’re told,” and viciously attacked any woman perceived as independent or uncontrolled by a man as “anti-man” or “anti-penis,” arguing that they needed to be spanked.

View the complete March 11 article by Amanda Marcotte of Salon on the AlterNet website here.

Economics of Misogyny

The following article by Kate Bahn was posted on the Center for American Progress website September 28, 2017:

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In this July 24, 2017, photograph, Otibehia Allen, a single mother of five, stands outside her rented mobile home in Jonestown, Mississippi. Allen works 30 hours a week as a data entry clerk and transportation dispatcher for a medical clinic, pulling in barely more than minimum wage.

The term misogyny is often used in feminist analysis but not often used to analyze the government and market institutions that make up our society. Outright misogyny—from catcalling to gender-based violence—has been gaining more acknowledgement recently, as society develops a better understanding of concepts like consent and toxic masculinity. But though society has gotten better at identifying misogyny, the systematic role it plays in our world remains largely unnamed. Misogyny has been around long enough to have become embedded in the structures and institutions of our society, including the economy. It is reflected in how we think about the economy and the policies that are created to regulate markets and encourage growth. The economics of misogyny describes how these anti-woman beliefs are deeply ingrained in economic theory and policy in such a way that devalues women’s contributions and limits women’s capabilities and opportunities. Continue reading “Economics of Misogyny”

He’s the Boss

The following article by Leslie Bennetts was posted on the Washington Spectator website February 17, 2017:

Trump’s misogyny takes its toll on women

Patricia Bosworth met her future husband in a bar when he punched out a drunk who pinched her bottom. She was only 19, but they married with dizzying speed.

He began to abuse her almost as quickly. One night they argued about money, in the back seat of a taxi, and he started hitting her. Screaming and sobbing, she begged the cab driver for help, only to have him shrug off her pleas.

“He’s the boss, lady,” the driver said.

Bosworth finally left her husband when he tried to choke her to death because he was angry that his pet bird escaped. Now 83, she has since had a long career as an actress and author. Her latest book—The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan—describes the harrowing story of her first marriage in an era when the prevailing culture simply assumed that men were entitled to beat their wives. Continue reading “He’s the Boss”