On Friday, Media Matters and the Women's Media Center launched a new campaign called "Sexism Might Sell, But I'm Not Buying It." The core of the campaign is a video and petition that calls on the corporate media in this country to stop reporting on women through a patriarchal lens. The campaign uses the media's coverage of Hillary Clinton's campaign as its means of addressing the issue and it has produced a video showing numerous instances of the media using patriarchal language instead of covering the issues of the campaign:
Of course, it is important to remember that sexism in the media's coverage of the Clinton campaign is unfortunately only one example of sexism in the media.
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