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That remark Gibson made to the female deputy doesn't disturb me on any kind of symbolic basis. If he had instead gibed at her femaleness as being somehow evil or unpleasant or inferior to men I would feel differently. This way it is only a testament to his crassness, not to a putdown.

Like our lovely president; if the German Chancellor had been male, the bush wouldn't have touched him. The fact that he gave her an unsolicited, unwanted shoulder rub speaks to his sexism, not to his being anti-female.

My sentiments.