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Opinion: Do Women Unfairly Judge Female Candidates?
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- It's been a particularly harsh season for women running for office, with dirtier mud than ever being slung. A misogynistic mud sampler: "whore" (Jerry Brown staffer on California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman), "little girl" (Carl Paladino on New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand), more fit to serve because "I don't wear high heels" (Ken Buck on himself, versus then-candidate for Colorado Senate Jane Norton). Before we frantically get the National Organization for Women on the phone (who jumped on the Jerry Brown whore bandwagon anyway, so lots of help they would be), let's be ...
Wonder Woman, Rosie the Riveter and Me: In Defense of Pants
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyLast week, Suzi wrote about Wonder Woman's newest sartorial incarnation. Missing the super-heroine's old crime-fighting uniform, which had all the practical function of something from Frederick's of Hollywood, my WomanUp colleague wrote that the golden-lasso twirler was an American icon not to be messed with or made over. See, the thing is, big-girl panties mean something to first-wave feminists like Gloria Steinem, who said Wonder Woman's new millennium get-up (liquid jeggings, cropped military jacket and patriotic corset) "gives us the idea that only pants can be powerful." But for a ...
Wonder Woman's New Costume Is Criminal; Spandex Panties Rule
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyWonder Woman has a new costume, and my mom does not like it. "Gross," she said, closely examining the leggings, bolero jacket and everyday-Jane haircut. "That is not my Wonder Woman." Her Wonder Woman is the raven-haired 1940s Amazonian goddess in a red and gold corset with red boots and star-spangled panties. Actually, when Mom first fell in love with the Golden Age Wonder Woman during World War II, the superhero preferred a skirt. The blue briefs debuted a few issues later. Lynda Carter, as most men of a certain age certainly recall, wore the Spandex ensemble flawlessly in the 1970s ...
Pint-Sized 'Temps' Flood Workplaces Across Nation
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(April 22) -- Not all of the 18 million kids who headed off to work with their parents or other adults today were quite as lucky as Mary Shannon Snellings. The 12-year-old had lunch on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's balcony, overlooking the National Mall, before going across the street to meet the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts. Neither Reid nor Roberts, though, could compete with Nina, a Capitol Police dog whom Mary Shannon and more than a dozen young people from Louisiana met during a session where they learned all about bomb-sniffing canines. Of course, Mary Shannon ...
'The Women's Room' in 2009: No Remodeling Needed
By Michelle Brafman - Politics DailyReview of "The Women's Room" (Penguin Books) and "The Love Children" (The Feminist Press), By Marilyn French. Marilyn French died on May 4, and I spent the summer devouring the new edition of her 1977 novel, "The Women's Room," and its sequel, her final novel, "The Love Children," due out this month. I read while I waited in the dentist's office and the carpool lane, gobsmacked by the number of women who flagged me down to volunteer anecdotes about who and where they were when they encountered "The Women's Room." The stories ranged from the reflective -- "I read that in a feminist ...
Hillary Should Denounce Steinem
By Ada Calhoun - Politics DailyDuring a speech this weekend described in a shocking article in The Observer, Gloria Steinem said some terrible things on behalf of Hillary Clinton's campaign: "Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], 'What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?'" . . . "I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don't think so." Steinem got even more anti-military from there: ...
Gloria Steinem: Fatuous, Even at 3AM
By Eric Schulzke - Politics Daily"I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don't think so." The italics was not in the original print but almost certainly were in the voice.Which candidate was this spoken of? Mike Huckabee for governing an obscure state? Hillary Clinton for living in the White House for eight years? Or Barack Obama for ... graduating from Harvard Law School.If you guessed, John McCain for being a war hero, you are correct sir. The speaker was Gloria Steinem, and her preferred candidate was Hillary Clinton. So, what exactly does Clinton have to offer in the experience category? ...
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