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Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:12:24 +0000

[...] Michelle Obama and the feminists [...]

By: matt

matt — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:17:17 +0000

Michelle Obamma received a bugus raise of $195,052 annually after Barack Obama was elected senator. Check out this article on Michelle Obama

By: Sleepless in Virginia

Sleepless in Virginia — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:46:25 +0000

I think Vivians’s point is the important one here: “…until and unless all women stand together and denounce unacceptable behavior when it occurs no progress will be made.”

Living in very diverse NoVa, I’ve come to learn that women, no matter what their race, religion, or nationality, are all seeking the same things such as — respect, acknowledgement of their accomplishments, equal pay, equal opportunity, etc. There is so much here to join us together, that our coalition is probably the most powerful in the world…given the chance and given that we take it!

By: Anon E. Mouse

Anon E. Mouse — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:40:51 +0000

BTW, there have been 29 female governors.

By: Anon E. Mouse

Anon E. Mouse — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:35:42 +0000

Actually, that first goes to Doug Wilder in 1990.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:45:11 +0000

Absolutely correct. Misogyny is alive and well, and even supposed liberals don’t necessarily acknowledge their own nasty hateful attitude toward powerful women.

By: mateusjustino

mateusjustino — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:12:05 +0000

You are absolutely awesome. I’ve been in the Obama camp since “Hector was a pup” and the statements by Hillary and her surrogates were beyond the pale, but the media sure did do a damn misogynistic number on her and it was just as disgusting on the number she and her gang did on Obama. I didn’t realize that Steinem now endorsed Obama. Thanks for the info. I really got a kick out of the 1, 2, 3, 4 thing. I think there’s some things that should also be considered – like the number of white female governors vs. black male governors.
In Massachusetts, we have the second one in the nation’s history. Looks like NY has the third. There have quite a few white female governors even if the first was a black man in the 60′s, I believe.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:28:24 +0000

I generally don’t agree with MB, but I wholeheartedly agree about MoDo. She was the best thing about TimesSelect.

By: Anon E. Mouse

Anon E. Mouse — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:54:21 +0000

This Democratic primary has caused people to choose between racial identity and sexual identity. (This is the problem with identityt politics.) Well, we are more likely to have a very close relationship with a member of the opposite sex (one’s spouse, a parent, or a sibling) than with someone of another race. As such, we are more likely to identify with one of the same race but different sex, than we are with someone of the same sex but a different race.

By: vjp

vjp — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:25:13 +0000

I’ll agree to that

By: MB

MB — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:06:48 +0000

Can we start by all agreeing that Maureen Dowd should never touch a keyboard again?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:52:57 +0000

I agree. I’ve long been of the opinion that sexism is more overtly pervassive in this country (not that there isn’t racism, only that it’s not socially acceptable to nearly the same degree). And I think it’s disgusting and frightening that Fox News seems intent on making Michelle Obama the new black Hillary Clinton. I mean, I understand it–getting to make gender-charged slanders AND racially charged slanders about a woman is like celebrating Christmas and Easter on the same day if you’r Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reily. But it’s incumbent on all of us to stand up together and say “this sort of behavior is intolerable.”