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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Beth Reinhardt wrote a great article about the current effort to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the great state of Florida.
Carole Griffin of the Florida Eagle Forum — apparently their motto is ”fly like an eagle but not so high that your husband feels bad” — recited a list of horrors to the lone Senate committee that considered the amendment: no more Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, legalized prostitution, integrated prisons, coed scout troops. One Republican senator sanely pointed out that none of those ‘’silly things” have come to pass in Florida, even though the state constitution already declares men and women equal.
Read the rest.
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“Girls Will Be Girls. Or Not. Why aren’t more powerful public women caught up in sex scandals?”
Catherine the Great was a woman with an extravagant, exacting sexual appetite. During the 34 years of her reign, she had a host of young, well-trained lovers—many of them soldiers—who were paid handsomely for sating her, and were often rewarded with plum positions on her court, or gifts of property or serfs. Newsweek, March 31, 2008
“Carrie Bradshaw’s Feminism Is a Sham”
The Sex and the City gals are coming to the movies, and that’s bad for young career women” BusinessWeek.com, March 25, 2008
“Two Paths for the Aspiring Alpha Female”
IN the 1964 film “My Fair Lady,” Prof. Henry Higgins, played by Rex Harrison, famously asked, “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” The subtexts of two new books that aim to guide women through the worlds of commerce and finance pose a strikingly similar question — Why can’t a businesswoman be more like a businessman? — and come up with strikingly different answers. New York Times, February 17, 2008
Did you read them? What did you think? Leave your comments below!
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