Posted on 09/06/2008 4:13:32 PM PDT by kcvl
YES, ON THE PART OF MCCAIN: Feminism isn't about one job for one woman. It's about making life fair for women everywhere.
Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the antifeminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men, too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes. But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need.
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does.
I get no pleasure from imagining her in the spotlight on national and foreign-policy issues about which she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37 years' experience.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Dried up old bitys for O’Drama...
Don’t they have a place for old, former Playboy bunnies to go before they die?
She should go home and fix her husband some sausage and biscuits.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It must be terrible to be old, Marxist and no longer relevant.
Could I have some cheese with that whine, please?
As defined by a washed-up has-been old-news ineffectual feminazi, naturally. What gall. But then that's no surprise, these people have been acting as if they are smarter and better than the rest of us for decades. Welcome to the real world, Ms. Steinem!
Gloria, you are one of the people Sarah is NOT going to try to impress. Give yourself a rest.
Hard times for the NOW harpies these days. They get bitter and angry, and cling to radical feminism as their religion.
Why are so called “feminists” ALWAYS so dang homely looking?
Now, just take a good hard look at this all-American, honest to goodness real-deal family...and, if you're liberal, be afraid, be very afraid.
Hey GLo...
antifeminist right wing??
Dang girl, watch what you call me.
I am sick and tired of you and your ilk telling me how women should think, act, vote for.
Isn’t that what you espoused to get away from? Stereotypes?
Pre-conceived notions of what a woman’s worth is? Or what her ability is?
In this article you stooped to the very verbal images you said you fight against.
Well old girl you have made it. You are now one of those people you supposedly railed against. Way to go.
Too bad the first woman to make it to the executive branch is one conservatives approve of. Not the way the story was supposed to play out, eh?
January 2, 2004
David Bale, an activist and the husband of feminist writer Gloria Steinem, has died at age 62.
Born in South Africa, Bale grew up in Egypt, England and the Channel Islands.
He married Steinem in 2000 in a Cherokee ceremony in Oklahoma. It was his third marriage.
Bale was a board member of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
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Gloria Steinem, the feminist icon who once dismissed marriage as an institution that destroys relationships, is a first-time bride at the age of 66.
Steinem, the co-founder of Ms. magazine, married South African-born entrepreneur David Bale, 61, in rural Oklahoma on Sunday.
“Though I’ve worked many years to make marriage more equal, I never expected to take advantage of it myself,” Steinem said in a release issued Tuesday by Voters for Choice, a political action committee she helped create.
In 1987, she said: “I don’t think marriage has a good name. ... Legally speaking, it was designed for a person and a half. You became a semi-nonperson when you got married.”
Steinem and Bale, the father of “Shaft” and “American Psycho” actor Christian Bale, met in October 1999 at a Voters for Choice benefit in Los Angeles, Vandenberg said. Bale is a longtime supporter of the group.
Bale was an anti-apartheid activist at an early age and lived much of his life in England, where he worked as a pilot, the release said. He also helped import the first skateboards to the country. Bale moved to Los Angeles in 1990. The marriage is his third.
The couple plans to divide their time between New York, where Steinem is a consulting editor to Ms. magazine, and Los Angeles, where Bales lives and works.
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