enter the fray: our reader discussion forum
The Fray Browse by Tags
Sign in
  
Advanced
All Tags » Feminism » Feminists

  • Re: ah, what is a professor going to do with you?

    If we were to use the author's logic, Germany can invade neighbouring States, without arising ''anxiety and mumbling'' of those invaded states or ''jealousy or competitiveness'' of other European States, as they see reassuring calmness and conviction that ''women will be always right'' in the femaleness of the head of the invading states. Go ...
    Posted to Foreigners by sorenlerby on November 3, 2009

  • Hostage

    Is Sen. Obama going to be held hostage by the HRC and her supporters because she lost the race fair and square? - without all that convoluted math about her winning the most popular votes - I am still scratching my head over that ploy and how anyone would fall for that. I am a 59 year old white female accountant and I could just never get into ...
    Posted to Politics by diana - z on June 14, 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

  • 2nd Wave v. 3rd Wave

    Most third wave feminists don't even consider themselves feminists. Thanks to the first and second wave, feminism was just something we took for granted, like fluoride in our drinking water. We all grew up thinking we could be moms or president or both. Personally, I thought I might be a librarian, sports journalist or lawyer. (I ended up a ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Crewgrrl20 on February 14, 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

  • post feminist politics

    As a boomer generation feminist who came of age in the early 70's, I have certainly hoped and believed for over 35 years that the first president who was not a white male would indeed be a woman. As a delegate from Kentucky(Louisville) to the National Women's Political Caucus first organizing convention in Houston(1973?), I was quite certain we ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Linda Glick on January 31, 2008

  • Hillary's Credentials

    I'm a woman. In fact, I'm a Black woman. I'm a military professional with two masters degrees and a bachelor of science degree. I'm a mother of four children under the age of seven. I'm intelligent, savvy, and analytical, so please allow me to share my perspective of Senator Hillary Clinton's credentials. Politics: You can learn alot about ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Rainbeaux on January 10, 2008

  • When your only tool is a hammer...

    ''Had they preferred Hillary, everyone would now be concluding that racism is more ineradicable in our society than sexism.'' Ms. Yoffe's comment says it all, at least when considering the opinion of professional feminists such as Ms. Steinem. If Sen. Clinton had won, then the professional anti-racists would be playing the race card. It's how ...
    Posted to XX Factor by chuck on January 8, 2008

  • Re: Why read more into it? Steinem is not judging your vote

    Regarding Reasons Why is Hillary such a bad candidate now. Steinem was questioning the public's committment to a woman, more than anything. Because the problem of choice is one of interpreting the messages, here is how I see the different ways Obama and Clinton have been interpreted. Seems to me the package adds up to an implict willingness ...
    Posted to XX Factor by gayleirwin on January 8, 2008

  • Re: Steinem as Steinem always has been

    A view from north of the border... The Scorebook 1. Ability to draw financial and political support to run a campaign. Obama: Uniter Clinton: Old School Manipulator 2. Ability to find votes and work with Republicans in the Senate. Obama: Non Partisan (based on one relatively minor piece of legislation and a whole lot of time not showing ...
    Posted to XX Factor by gayleirwin on January 8, 2008