One of the sound bites to emerge from last night’s Harry Reid vs. Sharron Angle debate has Angle telling Reid to “man up,” a popular line of attack on Reid from both sides of the political spectrum. While this kind of gender-based attack tends to generate nothing more than an “Oh, snap!” from most observers, imagine what would happen if Reid had told Angle to “act like a lady,” or if President Obama told Sarah Palin to “grow some breasts?” Is Sharron Angle a sexist? And who is she really telling to “man up?”
You know what would happen? Nothing. We already have a candidate calling his opponent a whore. Another candidate who actually beat his wife and the media just yawns.
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