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		<description><![CDATA[I find that as a liberal and a feminist - not a Liberal Feminist, per se, I am torn: I want to see this hopeful yet insufficient stab at health care "reform" succeed, but I am not willing to sacrifice the already meager rights that women exercise in exchange for similarly meager reform. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&#038;blog=3742533&#038;post=1463&#038;subd=femspotter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[But what REALLY bugs me about this is the fact that it forces me - a feminist blogger - to defend a beauty queen: a woman participating in a competition that reduces her to the status of an inanimate object. Don't get me wrong: I'm not that kind of feminist. If Prejean is happy doing what she is, then I believe she should enjoy herself and I'm sorry that expressing her personal opinion may have cost her first place in the Miss USA Pageant.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&#038;blog=3742533&#038;post=743&#038;subd=femspotter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to The L Word: &#8220;this is the way that we live&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But the most important moment I experienced while pondering The L Word was to finally understand the politics behind the lesbian identity. It used to bother me when people (children) would tease me for my feminist ideals saying, "You must be a lesbian!" Why must I be? Not all lesbians are feminists and not all feminists are lesbians.

In late 2007, while writing an MA English paper on warrior sex and gender in an epic poem, I realized that I actually am a lesbian: I am a metaphorical lesbian. It dawned on me that, just as lesbians fight to be taken seriously as individuals in a world that applauds beauty and simple-mindedness in women and validates strength only in women who stand behind their men, I too fight to be taken seriously as a woman: just me, not me in relation to my husband or father, not me in relation to femininity. I refuse to model myself after a feminine ideal that isn't natural for me. As a queer theorist, I reject the notion that sex and gender must always go hand in hand.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&#038;blog=3742533&#038;post=452&#038;subd=femspotter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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