tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308923185697655557.post3075716993488795172..comments2023-07-06T03:24:58.768-04:00Comments on Your Big Girl Pants: The Smurfette PrincipleEmilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11713092722965430212noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308923185697655557.post-18435885720400488802012-06-18T19:18:15.975-04:002012-06-18T19:18:15.975-04:00I gotta tell you I think about this ALL the time. ...I gotta tell you I think about this ALL the time. Particularly as I'm picking out what my kids get to watch. I have a beef so big with Pixar about how they never have girl characters. So you can imagine how I feel about my government and the press being so crazily unrepresentative of women's voices. When I worked on the Hill we used to argue about whether a black man or a white woman was likelier to become president first. I always said a black man (though at the time I was usually thinking Colin Powell). I would never try to diminish the strength and power of racism, but I feel like sexism is considered wholly acceptable, still, in our society in a way that racism is not. People try to hide racism and public people get fired for saying racist things. People do not try to hide sexism.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11713092722965430212noreply@blogger.com