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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

  • 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

  • Re: FOX Lies!! Barack Obama Pastor Wright

    I have to say, this isn't just FOX news. The green day song ''American Idiot..one nation controlled by the media'' comes to mind. I'm getting really sick and tired of ISMS ruling our country and our lives instead of ideas and thoughts and common sense. Fanatacism, politicism, racism, conservatism, liberalism, ageism(sp?),fundamentalism, ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Thevail on March 23, 2008

  • Why Hillary Clinton doesn't need to either

    One of the most unproductive conversations to emerge from a year of pseudo-debates and meta-coverage of media meta-coverage has been that of whether it is harder to run for president as a black man or a white woman. The question itself embodies a paradox, since the very thing that makes it so urgent to ask (that these are the first ever female or ...
    Posted to Politics by scotevan on March 21, 2008

  • Obama's Arrogance

    I've been reading a lot recently about Barack Obama's ''entitlement'' to everything, including the job of president. Now it appears that he thinks of himself as super-entitled to everything, compared to all of the ''mediocre'' white males who attend public colleges. This man isn't entitled to anything, particularly not my vote and support!
    Posted to Hot Document by mabelle55 on March 19, 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

  • Race and Gender in the Coverage of Presidential Politics

    I perused the site for provocative comments from women on how race and gender are driving the election but found few. So chew on this candid perspective in response to the media's slicing and dicing of votes by race and gender to death. Just as it is preposterous to perpetuate the opinion that most Hispanic males wear casual Polo Ralph Lauren ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Suede on March 2, 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

  • 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
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