First, let me preface this post by declaring that I am a feminist. I fully believe in equal rights for women, equal pay for identical work, and full reproductive rights. I recognize the long struggle women have had just to get to the point where I can declare my beliefs without being run out of town or burned at the stake.
That having been said, I don't get how anyone can get very outraged over Obama referring to a woman as "sweetie". If you didn't hear the story, a reporter interrupted a conversation that Obama was having with the President of Chrysler during his Michigan trip yesterday. Obama replied to her intrusion with, "Hold on one second, sweetie, we'll do a press avail". Now except for being impressed with his use of the word "avail", something you don't hear in everyday conversation (is that a media thing, short for available, or did he mean it as in "soon", like they say it at Medieval Times?), I didn't think much of the matter. But apparently the reporter did, because it's all over the news here in Michigan today.
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