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  • 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

  • "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

  • 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