Post goes all regressive
If the Washington Post had published an article in its Politics section on Republican Sarah Palin’s shoes during the 2008 presidential election, it would have been excoriated. But it had no qualms about devoting space in an edition last week to the shoe choice of Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Valerie Jarrett, a White House advisor to former Democratic President Barack Obama, said recently in an article written with a group of anti-sexism activists that media outlets “reporting, even as an aside, on a woman’s looks … is sexist news coverage unless the same analysis is applied to every candidate.”
The Washington Free Beacon, in a news analysis, said it could not find a single instance in which a report was made on the shoe choice of Vice President Mike Pence.
The Post’s look at Harris’s “black, low-rise Chuck Taylor All-Stars, the classic Converse shoe that has long been associated more closely with cultural cool than carefully managed high-profile candidacies,” was soundly mocked on Twitter.