Boxer – my favorite senator

That is the right way to deal with sexism. She’s the top drawer.

Shout out MPS!
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This entry was posted on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 6:31 pm by Tengrain and is filed under snark. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

8 Responses to “Boxer – my favorite senator”

  1. raceynora: June 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    Boxer rocks!

  2. Carolyn Kay: June 19th, 2009 at 4:34 am

    But I don’t think the general was being disrespectful. “Maam” is the correct way to address a female superior officer. He probably said “sir” to the male senators.

    Carolyn Kay
    MakeThemAccountable.com

  3. DRoseDARs: June 19th, 2009 at 5:31 am

    Boxer was definitely out of line here. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using “ma’am” or “sir.” He was probably being somewhat resistant to her line of questioning and in her irritation with him, she spouted off.

  4. Tengrain: June 19th, 2009 at 5:50 am

    I don’t think he was being disrespectful, either. In another clip, he never once called the other Senators “sir” –except in the “yes sir” way. I thnk it was inadvertant, but I like the way she stops it.

  5. tommyspoon: June 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am

    This reminds me of how I got my head torn off by a woman at school for holding open a door for her. She insisted I was being rude and disrespectful. I calmly told her that I was doing no such thing, that I was raised by a Southern Gentleman to hold open doors for women as a sign of respect. But if she didn’t want me to show her that kind of respect I would be more than happy to never do it for her again in the future.

    She stopped by my room later and apologized. We’ve been good friends ever since.

    Maybe the Senator and the General could go out for ice cream later or something?

  6. Randal Graves: June 19th, 2009 at 7:42 am

    Hell with ice cream, a steel cage match. Or throw shoes or punches like they do in the Taiwanese legislature from time to time.

  7. liberaldemdave: June 19th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    the appropriate way to refer to an elected official, regardless of gender, is by their title.

    boxer was WELL within bounds by making that distinction.

  8. John Hoffman: June 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    The Senator was calling the general out for being a patronizing, sexist asshole. Generals almost never get put in their proper place, except possibly by their mothers!