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		<title>Dear Hillary&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do some men hate women, in the U.S. and abroad? Why do they want to beat us into submission? Why do they want to kill us in heinous ways? Why don't they want us to be happy with powerful, singular identities and exciting, fulfilling sex lives? Why won't they let us take control of our reproductive rights without at fight? Why won't they let us be mothers and lovers at the same time, sinners and saints simultaneously?

There exists a pervasive hatred and fear of women in our American culture. Whether movies, television, art and literature reflect or cause this fear escapes my understanding. But it all culminates at a rigid point: collectively, we believe women are one thing or the other, limited by our sex to be either good or bad. The "good" women are loving mothers, faithful wives, compliant sexual partners and obliging victims. The "bad" women reject their obligations to the "good" tasks, opting for personal pleasure. In other words, "good" women sacrifice themselves for this goodness, while "bad" women sacrifice nothing. As an unnamed Hollywood executive said of Ms. Swank, "Her look and demeanor are not soft, so it's hard to see her as vulnerable or as a love object."

Ergo, this Hilary like another Hillary we know, does not fall cleanly into either the "good" or "bad" categories, and is therefore a "difficulty."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&blog=3742533&post=1069&subd=femspotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The crying cat&#8217;s out of the bag</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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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&blog=3742533&post=11&subd=femspotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So what kind of feminist are you anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 19:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Clinton kept forging ahead in the primary campaign, speaking forcefully into microphone after microphone, other women on the trail did something much different: Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain, wives of Obama and Republican presidential nominee John McCain respectively, posed for the camera. They appeared in issues of Vogue magazine. (Where's Bill Clinton's fashion spread, I wonder?)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&blog=3742533&post=5&subd=femspotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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