BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

The media's gang rape of Hillary Clinton continues unabated. Women in power are still scarier to the general public AND the media than ethnic minorities. Just look and see we really aren't that far away from the way Islamofacists treat women. ARE WE? We're just more covert about it. Unless you count the sexualization of women as objects in the media (tv, advertising)... why, women are only good for a couple of things -- right? And heaven forbid you have any physical flaws -- why you're just trash then. We aren't even thinking human beings, no matter how much lip service is offered towards women's equality. I see it. Very clearly. And this nonsense is close to putting someone dangerously wrong for America in the White House. Again. CNN's Castellanos on Clinton as "white bitch": "[S]ome women, by the way, are named that and it's accurate" Summary: Discussing Sen. Hillary Clinton's comments regarding sexism in the media...

Today is Blog Against Sexual Violence Day and I found this gem. Get out your barf bags. At Halliburton/KBR, sexual assault is just part of the workplace experience for women by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen Like many viewers, I watched this ABC 20/20 report when it first aired in December with jaws-open, eyes-bugging horror. It told the story of two women workers for Halliburton/KBR who had been sent to Iraq. There, one, Jamie Lee Jones, a young computer tech, was gang-raped on her fourth day by coworkers after being drugged; the other, Tracy Barker, was sexually assaulted by a State Department employee. Both immediately reported their assaults, only to have KBR first lock them in isolation, then question their accusations. In the case of Jones, it even "lost" the medical report that documented evidence of gang rape. Here, then, is the update, posted this week on ABCNews.com. It ain't pretty. A mother of five who says she was sexually harassed and assaulted while working for ...