Full frontal sexism: A woman who posed nude like Scott Brown did couldn't have won a Senate seat

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From the NY Daily News comes this:

To all the post-mortems about the significance of Scott Brown's shocking Senate victory, I'd like to add one more: Brown's victory means that sexism is alive and well in American politics.

No, Martha Coakley didn't lose because she is a woman. But had Scott Brown been one, he wouldn't have won.

In the Massachusetts Senate race, we know sexism was there the same way Sherlock Holmes once found a killer; because the dog - in this case, the dog of the media - didn't bark.

Consider: If Coakley had posed nude for Playboy, as Scott Brown did for Cosmopolitan back in 1982, she would have been famous around the country, and not in a good way.

Every sentient American would have seen a blurred version of her nude picture. She would have been ridiculed as the "full disclosure candidate." Leno, Letterman and Conan would have briefly stopped talking about each other to make a bevy of breast jokes.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/01/20/2010-01-20_full_frontal_sexism.html#ixzz0dFnwZCyq