Everyone knows: aging is so much easier for men than women, especially if you happen to be in the public eye.

It’s a constant lament in Hollywood that male actors continue to get leading roles as they age.

In fact, many of them are considered to look even more handsome as they ripen and mature—and nobody thinks twice about men like Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson dating women half their age.

Yet the truth is, not all men over 40 look like George Clooney. In fact, some middle-aged men, especially those who start experimenting with different styles, begin to look…. well, frankly, rather like old lesbians. Or at least, let’s say, like middle-aged lesbians.   more »

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe:

Because sexism is still confused with nature as racism once was.

Because anything that affects males is seen as more serious than anything that affects “only” the female half of the human race.

Because children are still raised mostly by women (to put it mildly) so men especially tend to feel they are regressing to childhood when dealing with a powerful woman.   more »

>The Pakistani senator gazed at the headline in despair. It read: "US weighs new covert push in Pakistan".

Washington was authorising "enhanced CIA activity" in the country while US Democratic candidates declared they were all ready "to launch unilateral military strikes in [Pakistan] if they detected an imminent threat".

Hillary Clinton wanted "joint US-UK oversight" of Pakistan's nuclear weapons. In a country where anti-Americanism is almost a religion, said the senator, this is "an answer to a Taliban prayer".   more »

There's an item lurking in our office

that's been annoying me for ages

She's about 10 inches tall,

and dressed in a sharp grey suit with

metal spikes between her splayed thighs

Yes, campaign hounds, it's the

Hillary Clinton nutcracker. Hillaryous?

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Keywords: miogyny, hate, 2008, clinton, president, hillary, sexism

Like the white-friendly media mogul and mass Obama marketer and ally Oprah Winfrey, Obama expresses and capitalizes on whites’ partial transcendence of “level-one” state-of-mind racism.

At the same time, he reassures them he will honor their refusal acknowledge and confront the continuing power of deeper, “level two” state-of-being” - societal and institutional – racism in American life.

Barack Obama is a Great White Hope. He is perfectly suited and crafted to wrap establishment corporate politics and the related American Empire Project in rebel’s clothing.

He advances the use of race (albeit in a new and “post-Civil Rights” kind of way) to advance the top-down business-class agenda.   more »