From Media Matters:
In a July 14 Washington Times article, staff writer Andrea Billups characterized the tone of a Michigan campaign event featuring Sen. Barack Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, as "as much estrogenfest as it was campaign rally" and later wrote: "Even Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm got in on the girlie show as they campaigned together." Describing the event with Obama and Granholm, Billups wrote: "[T]he economic bantering did not begin until after the two-term Democratic governor offered a gal-pal fashion compliment, telling the cheering crowd of mainly black women that while she and Mrs. Obama had something in common as Harvard Law School graduates, she would not bare her arms in public."
So when two women get on stage together, all of the sudden it's an "estrogenfest" and a "girly show"?
If two men got on stage together, would this Washington Times reporter refer to it as a "testosterone fest" and a "boy show"? Not to mention that "girly show" conjures up images of strip clubs and peep shows... so that is the way this reporter chose to portray a governor and a potential First Lady?
Fascinating just how blatant some of the sexism is in the media. What is it about powerful women that threatens so much of the media establishment?