When Can You Call a Woman Masculine?
My latest article at NewsReal looks at when it’s okay to question a woman’s femininity. Check out the double standard:
Last week, noted feminist Keith Olbermann implied that the women of Fox News are only hired because they’re attractive. In response, The Daily Caller’s Jim Treacher posted a photo gallery of women who work for MSNBC. When he got to Rachel Maddow, Treacher wrote, “Whoops, how did that one get in there? Sorry, man. I mean dude. I mean Rachel! Sorry, Rachel.”
Similar jokes have appeared in a column by Treacher’s colleague Matt Labash, prompting a writer at Jezebel to lecture “Tucker Carlson’s minions” that they must never, ever suggest that a woman looks masculine in appearance.
Making fun of women for looking or acting mannish is a time-honored way of belittling them, of trying to keep women out of both men’s clothes and men’s roles, and just because the woman in question is an out lesbian doesn’t mean jokes about her aren’t part of this misogynist tradition.
But if a Jezebel writer wants to insult Ann Coulter’s femininity? Oh, that’s totally cool:
Ann Coulter Finally Explains What’s Behind That Adam’s Apple
Please visit NewsReal to read the rest.
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