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Lawyer: Assange Faces 'Tough Climate' in Feminist-Friendly Sweden
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News
(Dec. 8) -- Julian Assange, facing extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations, may be in more trouble than he realizes in a country where feminism is a powerful force and courts often favor the woman in rape cases, one of the country's top defense lawyers said today. The WikiLeaks founder will also be up against one of the country's most formidable and well-connected attorneys, Claes Borgstrom, if Sweden succeeds in extraditing him from Britain. Borgstrom, who represents Assange's two accusers, insisted in a news conference today that the allegations against the WikiLeaks founder are ...
Young Frau a Frump? German Minister's Sex Views Rankle Older Feminists
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyBERLIN -- Imagine Nancy Pelosi talking about sex and the role of women in a big-ticket interview. Or, let's pick someone younger, say, Jennifer Granholm, the über-competent governor of Michigan whom everyone feels sad was born in Canada and thus can't run for president. Or, say, Sarah Palin. Maybe Palin we can picture. Now add in the words "subjugation" and "heterosexual" and "lesbian" – and the idea of American female politicians, on either side of the aisle, debating whether straight sex dominates women, or, the corollary, that lesbian sex is a requirement for female empowerment and . ...
GOP's Rural White Guys: The Night They Drove New Dixie Down
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyRepublicans are busting with pride about the parade of rural white men who voted overwhelmingly for their candidates in last week's midterm elections. And not just on the national level. You have to go back to 1966 to find the same number of state legislature switches. You have to go back to 1928 to find this many state legislature seats filled with Republicans. That fact alone could ripple for years to come, due to the potential for partisan gerrymandering (fun fact: so named for the salamander-shaped district designed by a Gov. Gerry in 1812 Massachusetts). Representative districts are ...
Who Cares About the End of 'Cathy'?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 12) -- Thirty-four years and thousands of neurotic moments later, the misadventures of the high-strung, long-lashed, tenacious brunette comic-strip character known as Cathy are drawing to a close. Creator Cathy Guisewite, who, yes, modeled the main character after herself, announced this week that the Oct. 3 strip would be her last. "It's just been really unbelievably agonizing to make the decision," Guisewite told The Associated Press. "The strip has not only been the most astonishing form of therapy for 34 years, but doing a daily comic strip for the newspaper set a certain rhythm ...
Jon Stewart and 'The Daily Show': They're Just Not That Into Lame Female Comics
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMeritocracies are brutal. You should know, since you yourself practiced a kind of meritocracy. As a child, you were bigger than the bug. Splat! Too bad for you, bug. How dare you exist. In the adult world, however, distinguishing between a true meritocracy and a prejudicial pattern of hiring is not so clear cut. In the last couple of weeks the Internet has been rippling with controversy over "The Daily Show's" lack of women -- "The Daily Show's Woman Problem," by Irin Carmon on jezebel.com, "Outrage World: How Feminist Blogs Like Jezebel Gin Up Page Views by Exploiting Women's Worst ...
Abortion Rights = Feminism?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyAbortion is for sure the mama of all tough issues – because it's a big damn deal wherever you stand, and because it's such a difficult subject on which to disagree with those you love. (If you think of this "procedure" as the taking of a human life, can you really claim in the next breath that you have no judgments about it? Honestly, no. Just as if you see abortion rights as the cornerstone of female independence, you cannot be all la-di-da neutral about threats to that freedom.) My fellow contrarian and Politics Daily colleague Donna Trussell zipped to the heart of the matter when ...
Abortion, Sarah Palin and Feminism: They're Complicated
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAh, carry me back to old 1960s. Women's lib, as many of us called feminism back then, divided women along the same fault lines that divide us today. Decades ago a friend said to me: "I always thought liberation meant the freedom to do what you wanted with your life, even if that was stay home with your children." Pretty good definition, and it just about summarizes the abortion debate. Freedom to become a mother or not. Freedom to be born or not. When those two freedoms are in direct opposition, whose freedom should be honored? The baby's, says Sarah Palin. "You thought pit bulls are ...
Palin and Bachmann: Feminists in Naughty Monkey Peep Toe Heels
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyPoor, poor Tim Pawlenty. The earnest Minnesota governor brought his best zingers and one-liners to the Minneapolis Convention Center on Wednesday, but he got his biggest applause at the GOP fundraiser only when he introduced Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. The two brightest stars of the conservative movement were headliners for the event to raise cash for Bachmann's re-election campaign. On the charisma scale, he was chalk to their napalm. With Martina McBride's "This One's for the Girls" blaring in the background, Bachmann and Palin took the stage in a blur of waving hands, teased hair, ...
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