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In a now
legendary 2008 Saturday Night Live skit, comedians Amy Poehler and Tina Fey opened
the show by imitating Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and
unsuccessful Democratic contender for the nomination Hillary Clinton,
respectively. The skit could have been a harmless imitation game,
with Fey and Poehler simply doing their brilliant impressions of each candidate’s
personalities. Instead, it was an extended comment by two female comedians on
what they saw as the unacceptable sexism in the 2008 campaign. As Fey wrote in
her memoirs Bossypants:
This sketch easily could have
been a dumb catfight between two female candidates. What Seth [Meyers] and Amy
[Poehler] wrote, however, was two women speaking out together against sexism in
the campaign.... you all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn’t even
realize it because of all the jokes. [...] Suckers! (2012: 216-17)
That the
2008 presidential cycle was “rife with overt [gender] bias,” as political
scientist Jennifer Lawless has written should not be a controversial claim.
(2009: 71) If you think it is, then I invite you to have a look at this rather
shocking compilation of TV clips that the Women’s Media
Center made in 2008. The compilation shows established TV news anchors focusing
on Hillary Clinton’s clothes, hair and style rather than on her position on the
issues.
[1] Which is incorrect, as there have been several women
that have run for the presidency. Clinton’s candidacy was seen as historic,
however, because of its perceived viability relative to her predecessors’. (Blakemore, 2015)
