No no, noticing is fine in Trixland. But if a woman says it was nice to see a black person win and that it'd be nice if a woman won, that first woman is racist and sexist.
It's a fine distinction, I know. But she thinks about these things quite carefully...
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Edit: honestly, it's no different than the huge fuss about the Pelosi quote about Obamacare. (I don't like Pelosi, btw, but whatever).
They ran with "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
But what she actually said was: You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention--it's about diet, not diabetes. It's going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
It's easy to score cheap points by taking an admittedly weak line out of its context and present it as the only thing said. I really have to wonder if most people realize how they sound when they speak publicly and not from a memorized script. I don't like most politicians much at all, but I have to give them this: it's actually pretty tough to speak regularly off-the-cuff without slipping up here and there.
I really do make an effort to correct myself if I catch a slip when I'm speaking - even a little thing that might be misinterpreted - but that can be rather tough when you're simultaneously trying to say what you mean to say as efficiently as possible while also monitoring one, poise, etc. And of course, most of the time we're speaking with friends, where we don't have to be on guard for any little thing slip-up to be cut out from the surrounding sentences and used in a frontal assault.
