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  • Disappointed in XX Factor

    It's a Girl! Uh, so what? Groundbreaking? Only if you think that something that was done 20 years early by the other party is groundbreaking. This is not Hillary. This is not even Kathleen Sebelius, Olympia Snowe or Christine Todd Whitman. This is one very conservative politician. The only thing I have in common with this woman is a set of ...
    Posted to XX Factor by samsmom1127 on August 29, 2008

  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008

  • Government abuse of power

    South Dakotas law relating to doctor patient communication and abortion: This is just another method for people using and abusing government power. They attempt to control others and legislate morality by forcing their beliefs (usually based on their religion) upon all of society. Their goal is to limit freedom and force conformity with their ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by den99md on July 4, 2008

  • Said it, Meant it: bridges among feminists?

    In response to Marjorie Valbrun’s thoughtful piece about the eroding relations between black women Obama supporters and white women Clinton supporters, I can’t help wondering whether these difficult conversations about how sexism and racism undermine equal opportunities aren’t a necessary first step in a modern conversation about race relations. ...
    Posted to XX Factor by L Newfarmer on May 28, 2008

  • The Real Reason Why Hillary Can't Give a Speech on Gender

    While I agree that Hillary's relationship with gender is problematic at best and her reliance on victimization--though not entirely voluntary--would make it difficult to give a speech addressing such matters, I think you overlook our country's general refusal to confront sexism. That is not to say that race is an issue we readily welcome into the ...
    Posted to XX Factor by MJenssen on March 28, 2008

  • Steinem, Morgan and what happened to feminism?

    Dear Dahlia, Emily, Hanna, and all, I was born in the same year as Ms. magazine. As soon as I could read, I eagerly snatched up each new issue and tore the “Stories for Free Children” from the centerfold. (My favorite, which must have dated from somewhere around 1979, had to do with a child named ‘X’, who had no evident gender ...
    Posted to XX Factor by denada on February 17, 2008

  • XX Factor is NOT anti-feminist

    Or rather, the women who post in XX Factor are not anti-feminist. I can see a debate over whether the existence of the XX Factor is anti-feminist or sexist (is lumping them all together ghetto-izing women's voices or making them more clearly heard?) but my interpretation of their posts (the vast majority of them anyway) doesn't lead me to ...
    Posted to XX Factor by KRM on February 14, 2008

  • Re: Chelsa Clinton

    ''Do you even understand the ISSUE?'' Your simplistic dismissal of the query reveals exactly what is wrong with so-called ''news'' nowadays. Whatever his intent, using ''pimped'', ''pimped-out'', or any variation in reference to ANY public figure, not just Hilary and Bill's daughter, is at least graceless and vulgar, an should be considered far ...
    Posted to XX Factor by commortis on February 9, 2008

  • "astute"?

    ''astute''? Those comments might get her a C in a junior college, but that's not the Oxford definition of the word. So Chelsea Clinton doesn't agree with all of Morgan's, I don't know, 10,000 points. ''Well, I agree with some of your points...'' is a tired college prevarication that indicates bullshit is about to be shoveled. I bet even Morgan ...
    Posted to XX Factor by aedelbert on February 6, 2008

  • A Young(er) Woman's Perspective....Why Hillary (not Gloria)

    In recent days a steady stream of women have celebrated and lauded Gloria Steinem's recent piece in the NYT. Many encourage others to circulate the piece further. Respectfully, I disagree. Ms. Steinem's piece, though well intentioned I'm sure, pits the women's movement against the civil rights movement. Such false competition is divisive, ...
    Posted to Politics by batnib on January 16, 2008
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