Thursday, May 15, 2008

Ouch!

This one smarts. Obama calls a female reporter sweetie. Not cool.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What I really don't like about stuff like this is the presumption of familiarity.

Best as I know, Senator Obama and the journalist have a professional relationship - she should call him 'Senator' (and she did), and he should call her "Ms. Agar" or "Ms." if he doesn't know her name.

I just don't like the trend to presumed familiarity. Maybe it just makes me old fashioned.

broad minded said...

I think it goes beyond the issue of familiarity, it is just flat disrespectful and sexist. and obama should know better in my opinion.