| <<And just a couple weeks ago, a black man murdered five women (would have been six if he was a better shot) in a Lane Bryant store outside Chicago. I'm sure he just happened on a woman's clothing store and didn't target it on a Saturday morning just after business opened.>>
Did the purpotrator say he did it because they are women and he hates women?
<<housands and thousands of American women are raped every year. Sexism is dead because you perceive wife beaters to be "socially demonized"?? I would ask, why do we live in a culture where violence against women continues to be such a fixture of social relations?
Domestic violence is an epidemic, and it's usually perpetrated on women. Just because it is illegal doesn't mean it isn't continuous and that we aren't desensitized to it.>>
I never said sexism is dead; I know it's alive and well. We live in a culture of violence, yes, and women are often victims of it. But how many groups out there are openly purpotrating violence toward women a la KKK, Stormfront, etc? Is "Iron my shirt" more offensive than hanging nooses from a tree? Both are bogus, sure. One has connotations of outright murder, though, and one does not.
I don't think sexism can be explained away and denied, but I think racism and sexism are not the same and I see both alive and well in my city. Of course, the majority of blacks here, like in many cities and towns, live separate from everyone else because many decades ago the town forced it to be so. I have yet to see a US city that is gender-segregated because of historical crimes.
Also I wasn't saying the US shouldn't care about human rights abroad, I just don't think bringing the plight of Saudi women into the picture is really relevant to the US election. What is electing a woman to the US throne, er, white house going to do to help these women? | 
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