{"id":3750,"date":"2010-09-21T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2010-09-21T16:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T20:05:50","slug":"harry-reid-kirsten-gillibrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/09\/21\/harry-reid-kirsten-gillibrand\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid’s Not So Hot Remark"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to sexism posing as a compliment, I try to cut Harry Reid’s generation some slack. But Senator Reid really ought to know better<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had an unusual form of praise for New York’s junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, this morning at the fundraiser Mayor Bloomberg hosted for him at his townhouse – referring to her as “the hottest member” as she sat just a few feet away, according to three sources.<\/p>\n

The comment prompted Gillibrand to turn red, according to the sources, and created a bit of stir among the small crowd there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That leads me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n

Harry Reid’s Not So Hot Remark
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Kirsten Gillibrand’s hot says Sen. Reid —
\nThe Sen’s “hottest member,” indeed.
\nNow I know Harry’s old,
\nAnd I don’t mean to scold,
\nBut that “compliment’s” sexist. Take heed.<\/p>\n

Here’s more on subtle sexism<\/a>, including my Gender At Work<\/em> essay.<\/a> (Gender at Work<\/em>, under the name My Most Attractive Adversary<\/em>, is the lead Gender Gap chapter essay in a pair of college textbooks by Gary Goshgarian: The Contemporary Reader<\/em> and Readings For Today<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to sexism posing as a compliment, I try to cut Harry Reid’s generation some slack. But Senator Reid really ought to know better: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had an unusual form of praise for New York’s junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, this morning at the fundraiser Mayor Bloomberg hosted for him at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,121,153,196,1404,156,154,6,1120,7,3,12,467],"tags":[1403,839,1409,1408,2826,2886,1208,1405],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearance-humor","category-feminism-humor","category-gender-politics","category-harry-reid","category-kirsten-gillibrand","category-new-york-politics","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-speeches","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-senate","category-washington","tag-compliments","tag-feminist-limerick","tag-gary-goshgarian","tag-gender-humor","tag-harry-reid","tag-kirsten-gillibrand","tag-sexist-humor","tag-subtle-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}