Reply #44: If She Has No Other Redeeming Qualities. . .

[ProfessorGAC]

. . .i don't think the comment was sexist, but merely a commentary on her generalized worthlessness.

If someone said that about my wife or sister (my mom's dead), yes it would be enormously rude, because my wife and sister aren't useless in virtually every other way.

When Bloomberg Business Week had her picture on the cover and a headline "Why Big Business Doesn't Trust Her", was that sexist? She wasn't there when they wrote that headline, and she wasn't interviewed for the story. But, the fact is, that big business finds here useless, so the business mag wrote about that. The fact is, that for most people except the hyperventilating right, she is completely useless. Tracy Morgan made a quasi-humorous comment (of a type i never make about anybody at any point of my life) that defined that there was SOMETHING that made her useful.

Sorry, but as much as i buy the sensitivity to sexist behavior and speech, i think the offense is misplaced in this case. It was just a stupid joke about a stupid person.
GAC