Yo BC! :) Yes, it does indeed appear that the most vocal condemnation has come mostly from the civil rights folks. I did see some of the women folks out there condemn it from a sexist perspective. I think it was Katrina Vanden Heuvel who was talking about it the other day. But I am with you, the women's organizations should have been at the front and center of this. Anyways, this from the Nation: ##################### Source: - http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070423/ehrenreich Nappy-headed Hos of the World Unite! Barbara Ehrenreich My first thought, when the Don Imus scandal broke, was: What gives a guy with a full-frontal comb-over the right to criticize anyone's hair? Don, Don, don't you remember I am rubber, you are glue..? I had no idea what he looked like until he insulted the Rutgers women's basketball team and got all over TV, but now that I know, and now that the discourse has descended to comments about people's appearance, I see why he's been confined to radio all these years. Of course it's the ho, not the hair, part of Imus's comment that hurts, with its suggestion of unlimited sexual availability. Dream on, dirty old man, but there's no amount of money that would win you the favors of these strong, smart, athletic young women. It was the senile lechery of his "nappy-headed ho" remark that creeped me right out. What did he think-- that it was Bring Your Dotage to Work day? But I changed my mind when I saw the whole sequence on the news. Imus didn't utter those poisonous words in a tone of racist, misogynist, contempt, but with something that sounded like admiration. "That's some rough girls from Rutgers," he told producer Bernard McGuirk, "Man, they got tattoos ..." It was McGuirk who introduced the ho theme, responding, "'Some hardcore ho's." More at the link above.