Tennessee Guerilla Women

The blog Tennessee Guerilla Women is a feminist blog centered out of Tennessee with the purpose of ending sexism not only in Tennessee, but across the whole nation. This post focuses on an episode of Bill Maher's show Real Time. The author of the post discussed that in the particular episode, three women were on as guests. She was very sarcastic in her comments about that fact because, according to her, Bill Maher is usually very sexist. She then talks about the episode itself where one of the guests to the show, Rep. Maxine Waters, addressed Obama's plan to send more troops into Afghanistan. From this post, it is also clear that the blog is against the wars in the Middle East. This post also linked to a blog post on Huffington Post that detailed the episode of Real Time.

This post was followed by a comment that stated that this is a waste of time for the feminist movement; that Bill Maher has "a cast of three powerful and smart women, talks to them intelligently..." The person who left this comment obviously feels that Maher is not a sexist, that it would make no sense for him to have women on his staff and treat them respectfully if indeed he hated women. The comment feels that the people involved in this sector of the feminist movement are wasting their time and that there are more important things to focus on right now.

After considering both the post and the comment, I agree more with the person who left the comment. The post really did not give enough information for readers to agree with her side. She just blamed Maher as being sexist, giving no other evidence, and quoted Huffington Post. She spent so much time bashing Bill Maher when some of this time could have been used to further discuss the issue and Waters' opinion on it.