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		<title>Good news for the women of television</title>
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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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		<title>Hollywood, meet my Catwoman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been thinking about Catwoman for days now. I don't even like her as she's existed. But here's a thought: since the new Batman franchise is rooted in reality (ha!) with a gritty, human drama at its core, why not keep to that standard with the execution of one of the only enduring superhero women? How about if all the cat-themed adornments and leather really stand for something? And Catwoman can have a past that's as dark and affecting as Batman's. She can be a villain and a heroine at the same time.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=54&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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