words matter.

This election season, I have managed to refrain from filling up my friends' FL with the wacky stuff that has been going on. (Yes, this campaign season is a doozy.) However, I cannot read a news story like this & not comment:

The president of the National Organization for Women may have said it's wrong for anyone to call a woman a "whore," but the head of the California NOW affiliate says Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman still is one.

California NOW President Parry Bellasalma told the TPM blog on Thursday that the description of the Republican candidate for governor of California is accurate.

"Meg Whitman could be described as 'a political whore.' Yes, that's an accurate statement," Bellasalma said after a TPM blogger called to ask her about a story that appeared on the Daily Caller website.

*clenches teeth*

What is the point of one identifying as a feminist if one is just going to propagate the very terms that confine women as a category?

I don't care that it's a close race in California. Political expediency is not an excuse for engaging in sexism, no matter the sex &/or gender of the person who makes such a statement.

I hope Ms. Bellasalma gets a call from Terry O'Neill telling her it's time for a new up-&-comer to head that particular state chapter.