{"id":1384,"date":"2008-12-08T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2008-12-08T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T22:52:07","slug":"gropegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/12\/08\/gropegate\/","title":{"rendered":"Gropegate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v642\/shakespeares_sister\/favreau.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The feminist blogosphere has been chewing over Gropegate these past few days (see the post with 364 comments over at <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/hillary-sexism-watch-114.html\">Shakesville<\/a>) and I just watched James Carville and some Republican strategist &#8220;analyze&#8221; the incident and the brouhaha on The Situation Room.\u00c2\u00a0 Carville, who I generally really like, acted like a total pig.\u00c2\u00a0 While the speechwriter apologized and Hillary accepted, Carville thought he had nothin to apologize for, he was just a 27-year old havin some fun, whohoo ye haw!\u00c2\u00a0 Amy Siskind, cofounder of The New Agenda, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2008-12-07\/the-hillary-groping-incident-and-other-signs-were-back-in-1950\/\">a piece up today at The Daily Beast <\/a>on it too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with Shakesville on this one, who asks &#8220;<span> why, pray tell, do so many people seem so compelled to make excuses for what is, <em>at best<\/em>, such puerile, obnoxious, and just plain disrespectful behavior?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I mean, seriously?\u00c2\u00a0 Really boys?\u00c2\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feminist blogosphere has been chewing over Gropegate these past few days (see the post with 364 comments over at Shakesville) and I just watched James Carville and some Republican strategist &#8220;analyze&#8221; the incident and the brouhaha on The Situation Room.\u00c2\u00a0 Carville, who I generally really like, acted like a total pig.\u00c2\u00a0 While the speechwriter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1528,21929],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sexism","tag-womens-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}