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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
Where's the real XX Factor??
I'm becoming more and more confused at how these posts can be considered a political commentary from the female perspective, when there is so much female-bashing mixed in with everything! Instead of focusing on the policies of Clinton and Obama, their personalities/gender/race/clothes! are all anyone talks about. They may be very similar in ...
Posted to XX Factor by asadastra on March 11, 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
&amp;amp;amp;quot;astute&amp;amp;amp;quot;?
''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
Re: NOW's Tirade
It might be instructive to read Judge Clarence Thomas' version of his distaste for the racist actions of some caucasian women who claimed to be liberal. It must be said that, indeed, that many caucasian women especially some who have served in the Peace Corps or have traveled to other so-called Third World Countries, behave in the same patronizing ...
Posted to XX Factor by SEHNICE on January 30, 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