Hillary ClintonNo sooner do I post a blog on how to recover from bad publicity, only to have Target give us a casebook example of corporate dufus-ism. They better keep donating to the schools, because they just royally ticked off a big part of their target market.

Regardless of your political opinions, Hillary bashing has been so blatantly sexist and frankly I’m tired of it! Even after she conceded, misogyny just doesn’t want to rest. It’s like every speck of advancement we’ve made as a society when it comes to gender equality has taken a big Howard Stern-Rush Limbaughesque neanderthal stride backwards. OK, I’m getting my opinion out here, but even level-headed me is getting bugged by this.

What’s the ruckus? Target is selling a Father’s Day card that makes a sexist reference to Hillary Clinton. Someone from the organization Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE), a non-partisan group that advocates for greater involvement of Latinas in the political process, caught sight of the card and urged the organization to issue a press release a few days before Father’s Day.

I seriously doubt a similar item referring to Obama being African American or something about McCain (the POW card?) would have passed the design review team.

Here’s the score:

TARGET: You’re so busted. You need to issue a public statement on this.

HOPE: You’re putting yourself even more in the spotlight for taking a stand during a tumultuous time in history. Leverage this!!

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