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Since he's so fond of "straight talk," let's be blunt - John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, is staunchly, rigidly, undeniably anti-choice. But to hear the media and absorb the conventional wisdom, you'd never know it. It's time we strip off the "maverick" disguise and reveal the anti-choice stalwart beneath - the REAL McCain. more...
Spitzergate and Hillarygate
Sheville Staff
In the NY Times, Kate Zernike has published an interesting commentary on just
how the latest tawdry sex scandal involving NY Governor Eliot Spitzer has affected
the political landscape regarding the 2008 election. As Zernike points out, older
women have formed the core of Clinton supporters, while many younger women have
felt almost liberated by the perception that, in a post-feminist era, a woman
being able to support a black man, or even a while man like Edwards, was itself
almost vindication of how old-style feminism was anachronistic. But as yet another
male politician stands at the microphones apologizing for yet another pay-for-sex
scandal, and the news commentators drone on about "victimless crimes"
- as if Silda Spitzer was not a victim - younger women at least seem to be starting
to "get it" that maybe this society isn't as post-feminist as they thought.
Read
the full article here.
All You Need Is Hate
Sheville Staff
Yes, it may seem tedious to go over this yet again, but we have to seriously
consider that the fringe reactions to Hillary Clinton really are a
feminist issue, however you may choose to vote.
Read
Stanley Fish's blog piece on the NY Times.
Hillary Bashing
Sheville Staff
And for yet another commentary on Hillary-bashing, there's Robin Morgan's Goodbye
To All That (#2).
Gloria Steinem: Women Are Never Front-Runners
Sheville Staff
Have you read Gloria Steinem's provocative op-ed piece in the New York Times about Barack Obama?
Click here to read the article.
On the other hand...
Sheville Staff
Here's a thought-provoking rejoinder to Steinem's piece:
Click
here to read the article.
16 Ways of Looking at a Female Voter
Sheville Staff
The Female Thing
FOR MONTHS before the presidential primaries began, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was widely
held to lead among women voters. That she would naturally appeal to her own sex accounted in no
small part for her front-runner status. By the end of last year, national polls showed not only that
Clinton was ahead but also that women supported her by 8 points more than men did.
But in the Iowa caucus her lead turned out, to use a Clinton phrase, to be more talk than action: 35
percent of female Iowa Democrats went for Senator Barack Obama while only 30 percent stood up for Hillary
— and Obama won. Was Iowa an isolated case? Or had women voters turned their backs on Hillary?
Read Linda Hirshman's piece in the New York Times.
McCain and Abortion