Are you a lady with lady opinions on issues that affect ladies?
Then
shut your stupid ladyhole, stupid lady, because no one cares what you
think about that lady stuff. At least, that's what the traditional media
thinks, according to an analysis by The 4th Estate and shown in the infographic above.
The
numbers are stark, but not exactly surprising. When it comes to
coverage of issues that directly affect women, the beacons of
traditional journalism—the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Sunday talk shows—clearly subscribe to the Darrell Issa school of thought: that the people best qualified to talk about women are, in fact, men.
Rep.
Issa, you may recall, held a congressional hearing in February about
the president's new policy mandating that health insurance providers
cover birth control without copays. This, as we know, made Issa and his
fellow Republican men in Congress, as well as his friends at the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops (aka, the Catholic wing of the Republican
Party), have a very sad sadness of sad. So sad that they needed to have
an all-male hearing to share their sad feelings and console one another
about how women's access to affordable birth control will
simultaneously destroy the republic and bring forth armageddon. And,
most importantly, make them very sad. READ MORE
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