Post Editorial Blasts "Boondocks" for being "sexist" about Condoleeza

[laura888]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43047-2003Nov14.html

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...the most talked-about topic in the circles in which I travel, has been the comic strip "The Boondocks," specifically Aaron McGruder's series about national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

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McGruder's strip didn't poke fun at a member of the Bush administration -- it poked fun at women -- in this case, an intelligent and strong African American woman who has shattered the glass ceiling for women worldwide.



OK -
1) I didn't even know that the Post censored some of these strips
2) This gentle slamming of Condoleeza is on-the-mark because, to me, she has wasted her years of training, her historical glass-ceiling-breaking role to support and parrot the administration's lies. She had so much promise, and should know better.

[Democat]

1. Playing the "sexist" card?

Any right winger who doesn't love Hillary Clinton really hates all women.

Any Republican that attacks Bill Clinton is really attacking everyone who lives in the South.

What a stupid article.

[amlouden]

2. they seem

to be going down the toilet, i can hardly stand to read the post any more

[Malva Zebrina]

3. She is as up for criticism as any of them

She is a liar, number one.
as if that would make any difference in today's world under Bush.

Number two, she is subservient to her position and has really no power at all and seems to be content with that as long as it seems that she is very very important and can write a book later about how important she really was. LOL In other words, she is really not her own woman--and all of her vaunted degrees, with doctorates and all, only serve to prove that all of it is not worth a thing if the individual is not a strong person and comfortable in their own skin and ideas. Rice, obviously is not-she is out to please and has reached the point she has reached because of her ability to whore--she has done that in the Bush administration and nothing else--that much is patently obvious. She is,to put it crudely, a whore, out for fame and out for money, in spite of all of her "doctorate"--she has actually shamed herself and those of her sex and possibly those of her race, who would seek to make a point or a difference.
She has made it more difficult for them because she has whored herself out and has lied so many times that one wonders if she is really deserving of the job , or if she has been "hired" as a lawn ornament and a black jockey lawn ornament. She is, whatever, a disgrace.

[Pondo]

11. She might become a very powerful "lawn ornament"

There's already a movement among the Republicans to get her to replace Cheney on the ticket in 2004. Check out this website – http://www.bushrice04.org/

[newyawker99]

20. Hi Pondo!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Dr Fate]

4. What is so bad about being sexy?

????

[KG]

5. rice 'shattered the glass ceiling for women worldwide'? huh?

the usual ignorant blather from todays so-called 'journalists'.

she's only an adviser, what about the women the have been elected to run whole friggen countries like margaret thatcher, bhutto(?) and indira ghandi? (i'm sure the list is longer.)

besides, condi didn't shatter a glass cieling, she dove into a cesspool.

[jpgray]

16. Exactly--the editorial's ignorance is worn on its sleeve. (nt)

[wtmusic]

6. Agree with the Post, but not for being 'sexist'

It has nothing to do with sexism. So Condie doesn't have a man in her life--does a woman need a man in her life to be considerate? It's a cheap personal shot (worthy of the trash on FreeRepublic) that belongs nowhere in politics.

[Crowdance]

7. Sadly, I have to agree

McGruder is usually right on the mark. But his rather endless take on "what that woman needs is a good ------" is the typical sexist blather. Men seem to have such optimistic and tremendous faith in the power of their sexual organs. I have no respect for what Condi Rice has decided to do with her rather substantial talents. I suppose the true mark of equality is when men and women can equally make the same ignorant mistakes, with the same consequences. But I need to point out that Colin Powell, who has made the same poor decisions as Condi, is not described by McGruder as needing the attentions of a woman to set him straight.

[kiahzero]

8. I don't think there's anything sexist about it...

There's also an established theme of women humanizing men; that's not sexist either. Typical 'love conquers all' blather, but not sexist.

[wtmusic]

10. Just as much 'homophobic'

If only Condi had a good woman...

[theemu]

19. Literacy does not equal being able to read

I think the number one rule that should be drilled into students across America studying texts is this:

The opinions of the characters do not necessarily reflect those of the author.

This is knowledge which is critical in order to be a literate human being. If you are not able to distance the characters from the author, you are illiterate and your education has failed you.

Huey Freeman does not equal Aaron McGruder. McGruder openly distances himself from Huey in interviews, and notes that Huey is just as naive and at times incorrect as anyone else in the strip. Hell, even Huey realized how sexist his and Caesar's plot was in one of the strips.

[NewJeffCT]

22. Condi vs Colin

But, Powell is married - I think part of the gist behind McGruder's cartoons is that Condi is not married... and, most indications are that Condi is closer to Bush* than Colin Powell, who is viewed as a bit more moderate than Condi.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Oh, come on...

This is under "Letters" i.e. miscellaneous op-eds.

"The writer is a Silver Spring businesswoman and a former Republican candidate for Maryland's 4th District House seat."

Sexism my ass! This "Republican feminist," a rare bird indeed, is transparently using sexism as a cover for pouring out more White House piss about don't mess with Condi. Or anyone else.

Every paper has to run a few of these here and there. Just think of the publicity Boondocks got.

[oasis]

12. "intelligent and strong"???? Except when lying under pressure.

Which is quite often.

[KG]

13. boy, is she the worlds worst liar or what?

:eyes:

[oasis]

14. Cheney should have given her tutoring by now.

[KG]

15. it don't come easy for rice, she isn't a liar by nature

but maniacs like cheney are simply incapable of telling the truth.

[IndianaGreen]

17. Michele Dyson is distorting Boondocks

and its potshots at Condi Rice. Dyson's logic is the one that says that we should hold Clarence Thomas as an example of what affirmative action did for an African-American ending up in the Supreme Court, while ignoring the evil things he has done while in the Court.

[stickdog]

18. Yeah, Rice and Clarence Thomas are true African American heroes!

Oh, I forgot the third heroic house slave, Colon Bowel.

[dreissig]

21. Condoleezza's Duties

Rice is the first person President Bush meets with in the morning when she hands him a briefing book that outlines all that might have gone wrong in the world overnight.

How is this different from what an ordinary secretary does?

[Jacobin]

23. Thankfully the Repukes didn't use sex to attack the last Dem president

:eyes:

[MoonAndSun]

24. Aaron is still doing the Condi "thing", look at today's cartoon....

he doesn't care what his critics say, way to go Aaron!!:toast: