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First: yes, embarrassing confession, I sometimes watch bad television (usually in the height of midterms season as a way to procrastinate). Second: I'm a little bothered by something I saw in a recent episode of Last Man Standing, which is an ABC comedy starring Tim Allen as Mike Baxter, a Republican outdoor gear shop manager in Denver, Colorado. In "Renaming Boy's School," Mike Baxter (played by Tim Allen) calls Hillary Clinton "cankles in a pantsuit" in a series of jokes about her as a potential presidential candidate in 2016.
This makes me really uncomfortable.
First, there's the fact that I — like many men and women — admire Hillary Clinton's distinguished career in public service. Second, I'm really bothered by the fact that this dig is based on comments about Hillary's physical appearance; why do television commentators, pundits and, yes, even comedy show writers focus so much on women's appearances to make them the butts of jokes?
Leave us a shoutout in the comments: am I right to be bothered by this, or am I being too thin-skinned about a harmless little joke?
