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Jodi's piece made me think that Michelle has her footing as a First
Lady who can handle the constricted role without being defined by it. Rebecca Traister and I went back and forth last November about whether Michelle was letting herself be "momm-ified,"
in Rebecca's phrasing. I held out then for Michelle's feminist cred.
And I do think that when your husband is president, the rules are
different. Yes, your power comes from him. But you have so much of it!
Michelle impresses me in this new NYT interview by showing us how well she recognizes the tension ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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Jessica, the most striking thing to me about Amanda’s great post on the widely-envied Obama marriage was that I read it immediately before reading Naomi Wolf’s quirky piece in Harper's Bazaar that Willa mentions about women who ostensibly covet Angelina Jolie’s entire life. I confess that while I have glanced longingly at the Obama’s marriage—the date nights; the obvious, palpable affection; the perpetual-motion-mother-in-law—it never once occurred to me to lust after Jolie’s domestic arrangement... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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In a brief essay in Salon, cultural critic Amanda Fortini remarks on the trend of Obama marriage idealization. "Not since JFK was in the White House has there been a political marriage Americans have envied to this extent, a first family they might actually like to emulate," Fortini writes. But I have no desire to mimic the Obama union... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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