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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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		<title>Hillary Clinton supporters: stupid, or just plain emotional?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin. Who is that? I didn't know her from Eve, but suddenly her name sounded really powerful. Maybe she would prove Steinem wrong and pass an historical landmark before a black man had become either president or vice president. Sarah Palin. How bad could she be?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&#038;blog=3742533&#038;post=163&#038;subd=femspotter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The crying cat&#8217;s out of the bag</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This means that the qualities of gender – masculine and feminine – are identified as the nature of the corresponding sex. Therefore, women are feminine by their very nature and are expected to be sensitive, gentle criers. And because tears are anticipated, a woman becomes a cliché if/when she does cry. (“Is it that time of the month?” men ask.)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&#038;blog=3742533&#038;post=11&#038;subd=femspotter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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