[lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 8 08:49:11 PDT 2008


On Sep 8, 2008, at 12:29 PM, John Thornton wrote:


>> i noticed right off that they were using hockey mom and wondered
>> how it so easily seemed to replace soccer mom. i assume soccer's
>> far more ubiquitous since a lot less expensive to play.
>
> This authors description fits what I was told.
>
> Hockey is seen as "unpretentious, hardscrabble, working class and
> white."

Yeah, and soccer is sort of European and faggy, no? And "cosmopolitan," as former hick NYC mayor Giuliani said with a sneer.

Doug



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