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'Formerly Hot': Is This What Happens to Women After 40?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyIn the economically happy Clintonite 1990s, a distinctive sort of genre fiction called chick lit surged across the land, topping bestseller lists and inspiring TV shows and films. It has yet to fade one bit. Chick lit, a term that came to define a genre led by Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones" in 1996, celebrates modern women in humorous and lighthearted eye-candy prose as professionally successful or inventive, youngish, independent, sexually avaricious, shopaholic, nipped-and-tucked, trendsetter, sexy and perky and totally self-involved. In other words, look at Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the ...
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, 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 ...
Elena Kagan's Personal Life: Does It Matter?
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyWatching cable-news coverage of President Obama's new Supreme Court pick, I was struck by the pundits musing over how the White House would humanize Elena Kagan. They recalled how John Roberts had his wife and young children appear with him, which made him instantly accessible to TV viewers. Obama by contrast has chosen two women who are unmarried, presenting a challenge to the White House image-makers. One conservative blogger wondered what it is about unmarried women from the boroughs of New York that holds such fascination for Obama. Sonia Sotomayor's mother and brother attended her ...
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, ...
Feminists for Clinton?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyTo hear the media tell it, a schism has emerged in feminist circles in the wake of last week's Democratic presidential debate. The source of the controversy surrounds Hillary Clinton and whether or not she "played the gender card" to explain away what many deemed a classic display of political parsing. After Clinton turned in her less-than-stellar night in Philadelphia, the spin-room narrative was put this way by one of her advisers: "Ultimately, it was six guys against her, and she came off as one strong woman." Team Hillary slapped together a rapid-response sound bite, "The Politics of Pile ...
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