- Settling for a mate. It seems to me that unrealistic expectations are a huge problem in our culture. I remember looking through teh Match.com personals, noting how many women insisted on 6? for a minimum height requirement. The average height for an American male is 5? 10?.

- Short people live longer.

Is there a pattern here?

If you want a demonstration of how misogyny remains acceptable though race-baiting is not this campaign season, that Fake Steve Jobs entry is a good one.

Hmmm, interesting comment John. I’m not sure that it’s exactly hateful to admire the ass of a woman whose face looks vaguely like Hillary. But there is something disquieting, and disrespectful about it.

Sexual objectification isn’t misogyny. It’s actually the opposite:

misogyny |m??säj?n?|
noun
the hatred of women by men : she felt she was struggling against thinly disguised misogyny.
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Greek misos ‘hatred’ + gun? ‘woman.’

Whomever filmed that was clearly into showing off the woman’s assets (no pun intended). Whomever stumbled across that and realized she looked like Hillary clearly was amused at the idea. It would be just as valid if someone showed a young strapping male who looks like Obama –ears and all– shaking his butt in the camera.

You could at most call it sexist, and insofar as men like to objectify their targets of affection more than females historically have, then I’d grant that.

Misogyny would be a Bill Clinton lookalike in a wife beater drunk, and having brutal sex with a younger woman as a Hillary lookalike comes home and then he tells her to make him dinner. And while that would be despicable, even that wouldn’t be a valid example “of how misogyny remains acceptable though race-baiting is not” because it would neither be considered an acceptable critique or innuendo about Hillary nor would it have roots in either campaign, much as this current video does not.

I haven’t seen a single example of misogyny during this campaign (outside of one or two blog comments clearly trolling I’ve come across in some places, that are still far outnumbered by the racist blog comment trolls I’ve come across; but certainly no campaign operative and not even any vocal supporter has been remotely sexist even, let along misogynistic).

On top of all that, consider this: if anyone is being sexist in this campaign, it’s Hillary. There are TONS of examples.

Well, I’m relying on what plenty of women friends have told me, which is that the suggested that a smart and accomplished woman’s best asset is her rear end – especially when it’s clearly NOT meant as a compliment – is not exactly something that shows respect or appreciation.