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and vice versa…

Interesting article (”Gay Unions Shed Light on Gender in Marriage“) on nytimes.com…

This video is a montage of cable news clips called “Sexism Sells - But We’re Not Buying It,” produced by the Women’s Media Center. It is amazing.
Found via Judith Warner’s Domestic Disturbances column for nytimes.com… a lovely critique of the “bubbling idiocy” of Sex and the City “sugar-coating it all in Blahniks and Westwood, and yummy men and yummier real estate” and the media coverage of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Is this why I keep getting emails about smart women’s husbands running for office? Check out the Brookings Institution report: “Why Are Women Still Not Running for Public Office?”. (How scholarly of us… thanks, Emily!)

Check out the following 05/27/08 commentary by Caryl Rivers from Women’s E-News and let us know what you think.

(WOMENSENEWS)–The presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton has some disturbing messages for uppity women in the United States.

The reality that a woman is so close to the top political post in the country–perhaps even the world–has stirred up old ideas about the danger of female power and about woman’s proper place in society. The backlash is sending a retro cloud across a number of fronts.

I’d been hearing from female friends–some of whom do not support Hillary–that the backlash surprised them. Keep reading →

And it is about time! There has been plenty of fundraising going on in South Florida for all the Presidential candidates. But due to the spat between the DNC, RNC and Florida… there was no real campaigning. No packed high school gyms with fun painted signs, no door to door teams, and most importantly, no chance to see the candidates live and in person (unless you had $2,300 to spare…).

This week, as the election turns national, and Michigan and Florida are trying to clean up the mess they made, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are coming to Miami! Check your favorite news source for the latest up to date info, but right now it looks like Hillary will be at UM tomorrow, May 21 and Barack will be at BankAtlantic Center on Friday, May 23.

Take a look at this NY Times Magazine column by Peggy Orenstein:

One recent morning, as my 4-year-old daughter and I strolled to our favorite diner, she pointed to a bumper sticker plastered on a mailbox. A yellow, viraginous caricature of Hillary Clinton leered out from a black background. Big block letters proclaimed, “The wicked witch of the East is alive and living in New York.”

“Look, Mama,” she said. “That’s Hillary. What does it say?”

Read the whole article. It is short and worthwhile. Check out the accompanying graph on left.

Coed submarines are tops on the WMN agenda, right?

According to Conservapedia.com, that is one of the top items on the feminist agenda. Real people believe this stuff. It is not a parody. Didn’t a Chinese general say that it is important to know your enemy as well as you know yourself?

Here’s a quick look at what radical conservative website Conservapedia says about Feminism:

The consequences [of feminism] for America are:

We have unrestricted sex, the Pill, abortion on demand, an astronomically increased number of single mothers, teenage mothers and women in their 40’s struggling with infertility; we have a fatherless generation who hasn’t seen a better example; chastity is mocked, women are sexualized and coerced into selling themselves cheap; we have no-fault divorce, deterioration of family values.

The rest is even more amusing. Read more.

In a political climate short on victories, let’s enjoy this one:

A proposed law requiring all Florida women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound — then have a chance to view the image and have it explained to her — failed in a tie vote Wednesday after almost 90 minutes of impassioned debate about privacy, pregnancy and women’s rights that crossed party lines. Read the rest of the article at MiamiHerald.com.

THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS to WMN friends who have been working hard to defeat this bill.

ACTION STEP: Email wmnblog [at] gmail.com to find out how you can thank the legislators who stood up for women’s health and privacy.

WMN helped out with this ad campaign sponsored by the South Florida Coalition to Promote Emergency Contraception. It was a rocky road… the ad agency tried to go in an anti-woman, sex sells direction, but ultimately developed this very cool campaign. Check out the website, www.ecnow.org, and share it with friends and sisters. We can all learn something from those homophobic Boy Scouts: Be Prepared! There’s lots of good information, including a handy chart that explains how to use regular birth control pills as emergency contraception. There was an article about it in the Miami Herald (pdf), too.

Not to mention infuriating, nauseating, and familiar…

Florida election law is highlighted in the NYTimes today and, not surprisingly, Florida legislators are portrayed as a bunch of freedom-crushing morons! Please read this… it could have repercussions for our 2008 Voting Vixen plans. Our sisters (cousins?) at League of Women Voters are reducing their voter registration activity due to all these potential penalties and restrictions.

Election Day in Florida May Look Familiar

By DAMIEN CAVE

Published: April 28, 2008

Eight years after the “hanging chads,” experts say it is harder to vote in Florida than in nearly every other state.