No. Did you get my parenthetical? It was a riff, not a response to you, because I know that you know all of this and more. The main point that I was making was that it’s more than both concepts: the context is our guide.
And what you said about when Trump was known by his first name was precisely the point we are both making. Men are elevated, women are pushed down. The very names used in media, and how they’ve changed, with DJT as the prime example, point at the unfortunate truth.
Okay. thanks.
I tend to agree with most things you write here. Maybe I shouldn’t have “replied” and instead just wrote my thing stand alone. Personal fail. Will try to be clearer in future.
I for one pointed out the misogyny against Hillary Clinton before she even won the nomination. But if Hillary Clinton herself had campaign signs with only her first name on it, along with her co-heir apparent, Jeb Bush, I’m less inclined to see it as misogyny than a political strategy they both engaged in to distinguish themselves from their past.
I’m not saying this doesn’t mean that Hillary Clinton doesn’t constantly suffer from unfair bias. I just don’t think this is the particular hill worth dying on to prove your point.
I might agree with you, if that had not been how she had been addressed by racist, misogynistic rightwing radio for literally decades before that. Her leaning into that in an attempt to disspell it doesn’t change that.
But what could I possibly know about misogyny. Nothing, I’m sure.
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