Current mood:	amused
Entry tags:	obama, oppositional sexism

Barack Obama, future transsexual
I was watching Hardball and they were talking about whether or not Obama has gotten Hillary's women supporters yet. (Polls indicate yes.) But Hilary Rosen, political director of The Huffington Post, pointed out how what's really going on when people like to claim that Obama has a problem is the fact that Hillary's supporters were really passionate about having a woman president. She said Obama's going to get their votes, but the kind of enthusiasm they had for Hillary isn't going to be there.

She said that only way Obama could get that passion transferred is if he changes genders. Hee hee.

(If you wanted to watch it, it's at the very end of this clip.)

Newsweek already labeled Obama the first female president: The First Woman President? Obama's campaign bends gender conventions. Yes, I know, of course Obama's "allowed" to engage in those kind of behaviors because he's a man. If Hillary had she would have been dismissed as a woman. But of course, Bill Clinton was allowed to be Black. Obama's not.

While I'm reporting things heard on cable news, a few weeks ago an Iowa flood victim was interviewed on CNN. Her daycare center had been destroyed, and she had this to say:

[crying] "If I could just be on the floor playing with dolls with the girls or building Legos with the boys, everything would be alright."

Because enforcing binary gender roles makes everything alright!

I thought it was really interesting because Eckhart Tolle mentions gender identity as being one of the first things that the ego clings to. So here, all these things she would normally attach to disappeared, but she still had gender.