Courtney Martin employed sexism to fight Hillary Clinton; now she whines about women being "socialized out" of political office?

Kick the Courtney Martin Fox out of women's rights henhouse

“New York-based author Courtney Martin, …an Obama supporter, wrote on Glamour magazine's blog Glamocracy last month that she was not backing Clinton "in part because she reminds me of being scolded by my mother."
From HuffPo May 10th 2008, Feminists Sharply Divided (link below)

Courtney Martin is a blogger for Feministing. A savy reader recently alerted us to poor Courtney’s delusional posting on Feministing, a posting in which
she said:

" I'm a feminist who cares deeply about the lack of female representation in politics.
I've never considered running for office. That might seem kind of normal, except I was a political science major in college. …Maybe I'm not cut out for it or simply not drawn to it…. But what if I just couldn't picture it? What if I was socialized out of seeing it as an option?”

To every woman on this planet, FemiSex says this:

It is TIME to stop allowing Miss Courtney Martin the lie of saying she is a feminist.

She, SHE, Courtney Martin was a Driving FACTOR in “socializing out” Hillary Clinton as an option. She gave, as her reason for not supporting a woman who has clearly been a feminist her entire life, an abominable sexist catcall.
Courtney Martin cast out Hillary BECAUSE of her sex.
And now this nitwitted smirky little girl (and yes, Courtney will always be her Daddy’s little girl until she is 70!) wants us to forget all that and perhaps have folks vote for her when she runs for office.

Courtney MARTIN how dumb do you think women are?
“She reminds me of being Scolded by my Mother,” whined Little Miss Courtney.

And now, NOW, Courtney is back to whining about the lack of women in politics? R U KIDDING ME?
How DUMB do you think women are Courtney? You can only talk the TALK if you Walk the Walk!….and saying you simply can’t vote for an excellent feminist female for potus BECAUSE she REMINDS you of your scolding mother—that IS NOT walking the WALK, you nimwit!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Courtney was ACTIVELY socializing people against voting for a woman based on their personal inability to overcome sexist stereotypes.

Now, rather than a vote based on what would be good from women in general-- that is what would give them a female role model other than their scolding mothers and a women who's an entire history of fighting for women's rights--Courtney voted based on her sexism.

Psst, Missy Girl, about a vote based on OVERcoming you Daddy’s girl biases. How about a trip to the shrink and letting the grownups handle this? I am in my 30s, Courtney, and guess what I am scolding you! I am scolding you NOT because your whining reminds me of my BRATTY little sister—it does, BELIEVE me—I am scolding you b/c even IF you did remind me of my bratty little sister( who to this day has perfected the whine to a perfect manipulation of those who listen to her whine) I would have no problem voting for you as potus IF your policy and prior work had earned you the right to my vote. I would understand that my troubles with my sister are MY troubles and I should never hoist them off on other women. I would understand the sexism resides in all of us, even myself, and that transference is a problem for any woman attempting to break glass ceilings.

Hillary has not led a pitch-perfect life, but she is an EXCELLENT feminist to break the glass ceiling of politics and our culture of limit for women.

But little Miss Courtney, you used your WHINY anti-feminist voice to urge others to see Hillary not as an excellent policy maker for women, not as a woman who would bring down barriers for all women with a win…no you used you Voice to urge others to see what you saw, a SCOLDing mommie. You urged others to sign on to your SEXISM.

So what FemiSex says to you is: SHUT UP.
Please Missy Courtney Martin you have harmed women with your sexism, so now is the time to slink away quietly, become a nurse or accountant or something out politics and let REAL feminists CLEAN UP YOUR SEXIST MESS.

And fYI, Ladies, NEVER vote for someone who employed sexism against a female candidate. That person may try to PLAY dress up in your mommies clothes and pass herself off as a feminist, but…come on….YOU know, that what you really have is a Daddy’s little girl who will cater to the Daddies while she seethes over the Mommies who might just get ahead, IF she’d only SHUT her SEXIST mouth.
Don’t be a FOOL. Put Courtney Martin's voice where it belongs— outside a strip club begging the boy’s club to like her. Move her out of the way before another election! She will return to haunt women, that I gar-RANT-fn' Tee u!

Links:
HuffPO:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/10/feminists-sharply-divided_n_101...

CM on Feministing:
http://www.feministing.com/archives/014045.html

Comments

Missy Courtney needs to step

Missy Courtney needs to step aside and let others who judge a woman fairly take the lead!

Anonymous points to these

Anonymous points to these statement by Courtney getting her off the hook:

'But the 28-year-old Martin has joined in appeals for activist women in the two camps to tone down their hostilities and prepare to work together on behalf of the eventual Democratic nominee.

'"I deeply respect what Clinton has endured as a woman painstakingly unknotting gender and power," Martin wrote for The American Prospect.'

Dear Anonymous, that is laughable. Courtney doesn't want Hillary to win because she's shrill , but hey folks says CM, after Obama wins let's all get behind him! When CM made this statement she KNEW as did the DNC that Obama would be the person to get behind. Again CM smacks women across the face by assuming they are too stupid to know what she is up to. As for CM's deep respect, as Ms. Liginter says: Walk the Walk or I won't be bothered to listen to your palaver (misleading and beguiling speech.)
Courtney Martin is NO friend to female advancement. This fox/henhouse picture is PERFECT for this story.

I am, quite frankly, appalled

I am, quite frankly, appalled at the tone of this post. But I was even more appalled to discover, by following the links you yourself had provided, how much you have taken Courtney Martin's words out of context.

You only included one of two quotes from Courtney in the HuffPo article. After the quote where she admits she's not a Courtney fan, the HuffPo goes on to state:

'But the 28-year-old Martin has joined in appeals for activist women in the two camps to tone down their hostilities and prepare to work together on behalf of the eventual Democratic nominee.

'"I deeply respect what Clinton has endured as a woman painstakingly unknotting gender and power," Martin wrote for The American Prospect.'

Also did just a small amount of Googling to find the original Glamocracy post. In it, Courtney admits that 'I know I should rise above the mom-effect. If Rush Limbaugh said that Hillary reminds me of a nagging mother, I'd hunt him down with my fiercest feminist slings and arrows. Rationally, I know it's wrong not to vote for Hillary because she brings out the rebellious teenager in me. I should be looking at her policies, not focusing on my feeeeelings.' (You can read it at http://www.glamour.com/sex-love-life/blogs/glamocracy/2008/04/the-emotio...).

In her Glamocracy post, Courtney isn't deriding Clinton or encouraging others to vote for Obama. Instead, what I read (as a young feminist) is a fellow feminist admitting that she's not perfect. That we all have some 'unfeminist' moments. (And please note that what I'm labeling as 'unfeminist' here is not Courtney's support of Obama, but her gut feeling that Hillary reminds her of her mother.)

Shouldn't we, in the feminist community, be able to have open and honest conversations about this sort of thing? Based on the comments on the Glamocracy site, it sounds like Courtney is not alone. Since none of us are perfect, we should be able to discuss our occasional'unfeminist' moments. And it gives me personal comfort to know that a feminist I look up to and admire also struggles, at times, with impulses to the contrary.

Finally, I am sickened by your statement 'Put Courtney Martin's voice where it belongs— outside a strip club begging the boy’s club to like her.' How can you claim to be a feminist and say something like that about any woman, feminist or not? If you have a genuine disagreement with another person, voice it as reasonable people do. But that is no need to be demeaning and rampantly disrespectful. I would expect this level of drivel from the likes of Rush Limbaugh. Not from someone who claimed (the last time I left a comment on this blog), 'I have been a jounalist for years covering all sort of stories. I've garnered awards for fair coverage of difficult issues,' I would expect better.

@Anonymous-- sorry ur

@Anonymous--

sorry ur appalled, but what overrides my concern for your concern for Courtney is my concern that so-called feminists barked about Hillary being shrill and then DIDN'T back her.

If Missy Martin had told the truth, said, geez, how perfectly well i've been socialized to not vote HRC (case in point, she reminds me of Mom, when who I really worship is Daddy) then well, then a different story. Martin would have had a open conversation about admitting our sexism and OVERcoming it.
All Miss Martin did was echo the comments I quoted above by Mike and Rush etc., and then use that as an EXCUSE why she just couldn't bring herself to vote HRC.

So while you work up your indignation over the Little Miss feminist who almost was, I will work to be sure Little Miss doesn't have the credibility to cause millions of women harm in coming elections. Fraud feminists don't get to speak for the cause. Sorry, that is what is needed to be done to gain victory. Remember, Martin BACKED MR. Obama. So there was no conversation, there was a declaration and then the excuse.

Martin has been socialized to love the downtrodden women and hate the woman who would be king. Her voice is a ROADBLOCK in the path of overcoming ths very real problem--love for the little gal in dire need, revulsion for the women who would be King.

As I've said repeatedly: the proof is in the pudding. Women took SUCH a beating in 2008. We need a new plan and new voice and we must rid ourselves of the whiny little girl voices that went goo gaa over Obama when such an EXCELLENT female candidate was at their feet. We must have voices of sufficient strength that when sexism and misogyny rears its head they don't commiserate, but YELL loudly.

I will spell out exactly how weak and silly the Little Miss looked here:
If someone on the Right had said yeah, Obama reminds me of --Fill in the negative Blanks here--and the black rights community said... yeah he does have that watermelon voice, or whatever and I just CAN't Vote for him...rather than HOWL to the heavens about the abomination of racist tudes and support their excellent candidate, well....hopefully you get the point. Courtney is feminist abomination now. She has lost her credibility.

If you can't find the irony of CM wishing to run for office but knowing that the likes of herself keeps her from such a goal, If you can't see that such a weak voice is NOT what women need to move ahead, i am sorry. But remember my goal is not to harm Courtney, but to HELP the millions she harmed.

My goal is to say: yes, it is honest to admit bias and self-sexism; it is not honest to forgive your vote b/c of it.

Why do these silly girls

Why do these silly girls think they can get away with " she's to shrill" stick and then come crawling back as a "feminist."
Answer: because their publishers are men who soak up these girls who self-loathe.
Why does Feministing put up with this? Well for the most part that site is far far from Feminist. It is all about racial equality over female equality. They have brought in a larger audience-- gays and minorities-- by selling out women. I haven't gone to Feministing since the writers there favored Obama. What a hoax!

Magnificent post, Ms.

Magnificent post, Ms. Liginter. I can't tell you how ridiculous it is to see Courtney Martin complain about sexism when she could only worship at the alter of Obama while decrying Hillary's shrill voice. And you have done an excellent job of pointing out that so-called feminists cried up a storm about comments identical to Martin's (shrill, sounds like my ex-wife) while making their own.

What do I want? The same thing, evidently, that Femisex does: To move women forward by ousting the likes of Miss:-) (nice touch) Martin from our conversation. She can run home to her daddy while we do the grown-up work of stopping anti-feminist "feminists" from their sexism.
Miss Martin can slide up sideways to Obama and call him the real feminists all she likes, but women understand that those who use sexism to their great advantage to win, while never once denoucing it, are NO feminists. Obama won because he was a man. Courtney voted from him because he was a man. I will call the number listed, thanks!
Rebecca of Stone-cold reality Farm.

Dear Tristin Aaron Media

Dear Tristin Aaron
Media Director at Women's Media Center--

We urge you at Women's Media Center to rid yourselves of Martin's sexist voice.
There can be no double standards for sexism in the media. When liberals commit sexist voice they must be called on it as well. When Rush Limbaugh said Hillary reminds folks of their ex-wives it was roundly criticized by liberals. When media personality Mike Barnicle said Hillary reminds folks of their ex-wives on the courthouse steps it was widely criticized by liberals. But when anti-feminist Courtney Martin said she can't vote for HRC because she reminds her of a "scolding mother", this goes unnoted? NO!

We strongly object to Miss Courtney Martin association with the Women's Media Center and urge you in the strongest terms to rescind her affiliation with your group. If Miss Martin stays then you have shown you will tolerate sexism from within, which can ONLY promote sexism from without.

Signed,
M. A. Liginter
Editor of FemiSex.com

Please note, we have posted this letter on our website.

Links:
http://www.femisex.com/content/courtney-martin-employed-sexism-fight-hil...
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903110025
http://mediamatters.org/items/200801230004
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-neffinger/who-me-sexist-confessions_b...

For those who agree with the above letter please contact:
Tristin Aaron
Media Director
tristin@womensmediacenter.com
(212) 563-0680, ext. 246

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