It’s not diplomatic. It’s not professional. An apology..a removal of the photo from facebook, and a little effort into cleaning the image..but a complete disregard for it because some loud mouthed men find depravity becoming in their circles?

Other countries look at this..this is embarassing.

Just the level of depravity shown by the President in brushing this off, and the old men in the media ranting unprofessionally calling people who disagree “STUPID”, that if it were him “‘It’ wouldn’t have been a piece of cardboard!!!!!”, is concerning.

The level of depravity toward women, and complete lack of concern for appearance and character is frightening.

What does that bode for the future?

that would be: “HOSTILE workplace environment”

Of all the programs, Greta’s seems the likeliest to grant time to make the case that Jon Favreau needs to be FIRED.

The point needs to be made that the Favreau “date rape” portrayal insults NOT only Hillary Clinton but ALL women.

At the very least, that photograph creates a HOISTILE workplace environment for the women who will be working at (or passing through) the Obama White House.

If we don’t speak out and make a big noise about this degradation of women, who will?

i am also astounded that Obama’s change.gov website essentially censored questions and comments about Favreau.

Here’s one ACTION PLAN–if a lot of us take action, it could make an impact:

1. Obama’s change.gov website asks people to “tell us what you’d like the Obama-Biden administration to do and where you’d like the country to go.” We can articulate what we want here (fire Favreau; ensure parity in Cabinet appointments, etc): The page: http://change.gov/page/s/yourstory

2. On another page of the change.gov website, people are asked to “share your thoughts; volunteer initiatives are still taking shape.” How about asking for the creation of a Human Rights Corps to work for equality, parity, equal wages, and against sexual harassment, domestic violence, etc etc. Here’s the page: http://change.gov/americaserves

3. Email every one of your friends and colleagues and tell them about The New Agenda website. Invite them to join us in positive action.

I argued that because it’s not absolutely horrible to sexually assault a real live woman, the cardboard cutout joke, by extension, isn’t so horrible either.

That’s really what all of this, “can’t you take a joke” garbage says.
Because if there were a cutout of Obama in a jokey fun lynching, people would be universally outraged. “Just racists having fun! Come on y’all!”

It’s the actual act of sexual assault and bigotry because of gender that isn’t vomit inducing in the first place that allows the ‘let boys be boys’ stuff to even exist.

“You’re not being objective because you’re a woman yourself”.

WOW! I couldn’t rebut that!

And if Favreau wanted that site down it would be done, whether he did it himself, talked someone else into doing it, or had a lawyer send a letter to Facebook.