Cracking the “Bitch” Glass Ceiling

Posted on April 28, 2008. Filed under: politics | Tags: , , , , |

Very interesting commentary from Judith Timson of the Globe and Mail on Thursday, writing about the Pennsylvania primaries and Sen. Clinton’s victory there. The op-ed piece went on at length about Clinton’s “macho” campaign and Sen. Obama’s rather weak response to the full metal jacket approach of Team Clinton. 
My favorite quote in the article was [...]

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It’s Still a Man’s World

Posted on April 6, 2008. Filed under: Feminism, Sexism, politics | Tags: , , , , , |

 
It irks me when I read that I should be thrilled by the Democratic presidential race because the leading contenders for the nomination are black and woman. When I see that in print what I read is “women should just be happy to have had the shot but should realize that voting for Obama is [...]

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Bitch is the New Black? Ain’t So New Really.

Posted on March 11, 2008. Filed under: American Life, Feminism, Identity, Sexism, politics | Tags: , |

In response to my lament about Hillary Clinton’s souring bid for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, a fellow blogger reminded me that this is not the first time women have been asked to step aside and let black men go first. When it became clear to the women working feverishly for the Abolitionist cause in [...]

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Women Deserve the White House as Much as Blacks Do

Posted on March 9, 2008. Filed under: American Life, Feminism, Sexism, politics | Tags: , , , , , , , |

 

There is an article on MSNBC discussing Hillary Clinton’s recent resurgence in Texas and Ohio. The author talks about her main base of supporters being Boomer women with the typical being a 50 year old white woman who is jazzed about the fact that as a gender we are SO close to putting [...]

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Obama will not be the First Woman President

Posted on March 5, 2008. Filed under: Feminism, politics | Tags: , , , , |

I was reading an article in Newsweek that put forth the idea that Barack Obama will be the first female president of the United States much as Bill Clinton was the first black president. The idea that Clinton was “black” in a spiritual sense of the word was first put forth by the author Toni Morrison. I [...]

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