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		<title>What to wear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women can't win, it seems. If we wear too much clothing, as with the Islamic tradition, we're cultish or dangerous because we may be hiding too much. If we show off our flesh - in outfits with bare midriffs, short skirts, revealing tops or even nothing at all, we may be hiding too little. A woman who shows too much cleavage is a slut or a whore, right? Isn't she asking to get raped? And a woman in a hijab or other religious covering is asking to be harassed for displaying her personal views and traditions, isn't she?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=1678&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Pelosi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess this means the 17 Republican women in the House of Representatives can kiss their hopes of being appointed Speaker "good-bye." It seems to me that the democratic process took place in Washington yesterday and the Republicans want to be  big babies about it...big, misogynist babies. They might want to rethink their "No More Madam Speaker" slogan before the 17 catch on that they're not wanted in Washington by insecure male Republicans.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=1500&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever happened to &#8220;asshole?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, as I said before, I love "The Daily Show" and I really appreciate Samantha Bee's refreshing perspective. But this use of female-identified words as derogatory designations for men has got to stop. Terms like "vagina men," "douche," "douchebag," and "pussy," or "pusswad" as Bee uses in the segment, are all related to female anatomy and imply, whether intentionally or unintentionally, that female anatomy is inferior to male anatomy and thus that females are inferior to males. Why don't we keep sex-defining anatomy out of it? Instead of "douchebag," why not use insults like "loser," "idiot" or "jerk?" Instead of calling the Better Men Organization "vagina men," couldn't Bee have called them "weaklings," "freaks" or "wimps?" That is what she meant, is it not?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=1386&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Hillary&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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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&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=1069&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times lament</title>
		<link>http://thefemspot.com/2009/08/26/the-new-york-times-lament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still, I'm glad that somebody is getting angry about this. There are those haters out there who jumped all over Secretary of State Clinton a few weeks ago after she flew off the handle in the Congo when asked by a male student what Mr. Clinton thinks, "through the mouth of Mrs. Clinton," about the World Bank tampering with Chinese contracts. The incident was met with eye-rolling from CNN "news" correspondents and a heap of criticism from columnists and comedian's alike. But as this Times news blog points out, Clinton may have gotten a raw deal. She was, after all, standing up for herself and her position at the top, one she's worked toward for many years.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=910&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=5&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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