There is a company in Reston, Virginia, named the Austin-Weston Center for Cosmetic Surgery. It frequently runs full-page ads in the Sunday Washington Post Magazine. The latest series of ads caught my feminist-attentive eye and appear to me to be at the least, strange, and at the most, stereotyping and discriminatory. The thing that caught [...]
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Friends of mine were showing me their photos from a recent trip to Spain. One of the photos was taken in the Church of Santa Maria la Mayor in Ronda, Spain. Remarkably, the photo is of a painting in the church that depicts the “Last Supper,” but with all women, including a female Christ. I [...]
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The Nation is conducting a survey of the top protest songs of all time. If you want to tell them your choice, go here. And here are the choices of one of The Nation editors along with the choices of some people he surveyed. Some of those mentioned are Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” Sinead O’Connor’s [...]
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It’s been a long, long time since Bob Dylan has had any credibility as a singer of protest songs. His one-time reputation as the figurehead of protest is long gone. (To be fair to Dylan, he may never have wanted the reputation of being considered as the voice of the 1960’s civil rights and anti-war [...]
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I was doing a crossword puzzle recently and one of the questions was to name the person who said: A woman’s place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight. I didn’t know the answer, but it turned out that the speaker was former “first [...]
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Two days ago, I wrote about how Hillary Clinton, after promising last year that the United States would never “abandon” the women of Afghanistan, has said nothing about moves by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) that, in fact, are precisely abandoning the rights of Afghan women. Well, now, Clinton has said something, but, [...]
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In May 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that the United States would never “abandon” the women of Afghanistan by allowing President Hamid Karzai to make any deals with the Taliban. Specifically, Clinton told three senior female Afghan officials that “we will not abandon you. . . . [I]t is essential that women’s rights [...]
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In April 2010, Newsweek had an article titled “A Woman’s Place Is in the Church” with the subtitle “The cause of the Catholic clergy’s sex-abuse scandal is no mystery: insular groups of men often do bad things. So why not break up the all-male club?” The article was strongly against the male officials of the [...]
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It looks to me that President Obama has decided that it is now “safer” to be a true advocate for same-sex marriage. How else to explain his flip-flop of now telling the Department of Justice to not defend the Defense of Marriage Act when it was only one month ago when the Department had vowed [...]
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