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		<title>Falling in love with your inner Betty/Leslie/Eleanor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other issue I take with this type of sexual maneuvering is that it's really bad for our feminist cause. It isn't that Tammy is physically or emotionally hurt in the process - though Ron sustains some emotional scars, it's that Tammy will damage her reputation and the potential for herself and other women to advance in their careers. Ever heard a man or woman around the workplace refer to another woman as requiring knee pads to do her job? This kind of cynicism makes it very difficult for women to get ahead because of their intellectual merit. In other words, the Veronicas of the world owe us Bettys some fair dealing when it comes to peddling sexuality lest we all will be undermined in our careers. Just because Tammy sleeps her way to the top, doesn't mean the rest of us do. And just because a woman sleeps with her boss doesn't mean she isn't good at her job.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=1166&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good news for the women of television</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a lot to write about because - I am pleased to say - women are being written rather well, in some cases. They're increasingly dynamic. Unlike "chick" shows where several characters add up to one "real" woman, each character embodying a facet of the female psyche (think: Sex and the City, Designing Women and The Golden Girls, to name a few), some of today's women have a little more in the mix: they're allowed to be sexy and smart and confused and confident...all at the same time. What a novel idea!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=556&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;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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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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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&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=452&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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