Is Ms. Magazine Kidding?!?!
Breathe. Breathe. Go to your happy place.
I am sorry but the cognitive dissonance just gave me a migraine. I can't take it one. more. second.
I have HAD IT with Michelle Obama being splashed on magazines as a STYLE DIVA and how she shops at the Gap like all us "normal folk." Riiiiiggghhhttt... the woman looks like a pre-op tranny. Oh, she's the marital advice person now... Oprah might give her a Dr. Phil show huh? The perfect wife!! Are you KIDDING ME? She's just a college degree away from being a thug.
And now this. The supposed "feminists" just bend right over for Obama. He's a feminist? After the way he treated HILLARY? After the way his people treated HILLARY and every other woman around him that wasn't worshipping at his altar. How far up their derriere's did these people have to put their heads to actually print this stuff as if it was anywhere CLOSE to the truth? Just look at the latest cover of the magazine.
Start writing to the editors and writers there now! Click Here
I am embarrassed to be a woman right now. Mortified.
Just wait until Obama quietly rubber stamps sharia law... just wait.
This from blogger Heidi Li (check out her blog, please!)
Today was one of those days where the demands of work and life made it seem unlikely I would be posting. Frankly, I spent part of the day thinking about the fact that I know it will take a long time and a lot of patience to develop 51 Percent, to find funding for it, to make its mission clear and broadly known, and asking myself whether I had the stamina to see it through and the guts to take the risk to see whether it could become an educational backbone for a full fledged movement for social justice for women.
Also, I wondered, whether this week and next, when so much attention will be paid to the political events of each day - and the events that merit critique will receive them from so many talented writers around the blogs and maybe even off - it made sense to post. I prefer not to repeat what others are saying, often better or more knowledgeably then I could.
But then, lo and behold, here, in Washington, DC, the epicenter of inaugural schlock (T-shirts, onesies, coffee mugs), I received yet another email from another organization trying to make money off the onset of the Obama administration. (I've already been tapped by email solicitations to give to money to fund the inauguration itself!). The latest organization looking for dough: Ms. Magazine. The product they are hawking: a subscription that kicks of with their special inauguration issue. The cover photo they sent, designed, one must assume to make me want to subscribe.:
Honestly, I did a double-take. A triple-take. Because if a feminist looks like President-elect Obama then a feminist looks exactly like somebody who has done nothing, and I do mean nothing, to suggest that he will fight for increased social justice for women. This is the person who has retained Jon "The Groper" Favreau as his chief speechwriter; installed Tim "I'm not really for serious guarantees of Roe v. Wade" Kaine as the DNC Chair; appointed far fewer women to his cabinet or to cabinet-level positions than Bill Clinton did and barely the number that George W. Bush has (more on that here and here and best of all here). Between the choice of Rick "Women who exercise their right to abortion are like Nazis" Warren to give the invocation at the Inaugural Ceremony itself and total silence with regard to how the economic stimulus package he is proposing will aid those likely to be hit hardest - yes, women - I have to say that if President-Elect is Ms. Magazine's idea of what a feminist looks like, I would hate to see their vision of what an anti-feminist looks like.
While I will not be buying a subscription to Ms. Magazine, their solicitation reminded me that now more than ever, I want to stay the course with 51 Percent (even if it means, yes, seeking contributions from folks during these tough times - something I feel uncomfortable about - but eventually we will attract major benefactors and they, combined with the small dollar contributors will fuel the development of the Museum of Misogynistic Memorabilia and help us build up our speaker's bureau).
I founded 51 Percent because I realized that most preexisting women's organizations got sidetracked somewhere along the way - sold out, bought off, distracted. I will not let that happen to 51 Percent. Unless we understand the basic injustice of a society where the majority remains vastly under-represented in public life (not just in politics but also in politics), we will get more magazine covers from purported feminist publications that applaud the feminism (!?!) of a incoming President who has ignored even this list of recommendations for moving justice for women to the fore of his administration.
SEE 51 Percent and help out!
CLICK HERE FOR MS. MAGAZINE EMAIL ADDRESSES & A TEMPLATE LETTER TO SEND THEM!!
I am sorry but the cognitive dissonance just gave me a migraine. I can't take it one. more. second.
I have HAD IT with Michelle Obama being splashed on magazines as a STYLE DIVA and how she shops at the Gap like all us "normal folk." Riiiiiggghhhttt... the woman looks like a pre-op tranny. Oh, she's the marital advice person now... Oprah might give her a Dr. Phil show huh? The perfect wife!! Are you KIDDING ME? She's just a college degree away from being a thug.
And now this. The supposed "feminists" just bend right over for Obama. He's a feminist? After the way he treated HILLARY? After the way his people treated HILLARY and every other woman around him that wasn't worshipping at his altar. How far up their derriere's did these people have to put their heads to actually print this stuff as if it was anywhere CLOSE to the truth? Just look at the latest cover of the magazine.
Start writing to the editors and writers there now! Click Here
I am embarrassed to be a woman right now. Mortified.
Just wait until Obama quietly rubber stamps sharia law... just wait.
This from blogger Heidi Li (check out her blog, please!)
Today was one of those days where the demands of work and life made it seem unlikely I would be posting. Frankly, I spent part of the day thinking about the fact that I know it will take a long time and a lot of patience to develop 51 Percent, to find funding for it, to make its mission clear and broadly known, and asking myself whether I had the stamina to see it through and the guts to take the risk to see whether it could become an educational backbone for a full fledged movement for social justice for women.
Also, I wondered, whether this week and next, when so much attention will be paid to the political events of each day - and the events that merit critique will receive them from so many talented writers around the blogs and maybe even off - it made sense to post. I prefer not to repeat what others are saying, often better or more knowledgeably then I could.
But then, lo and behold, here, in Washington, DC, the epicenter of inaugural schlock (T-shirts, onesies, coffee mugs), I received yet another email from another organization trying to make money off the onset of the Obama administration. (I've already been tapped by email solicitations to give to money to fund the inauguration itself!). The latest organization looking for dough: Ms. Magazine. The product they are hawking: a subscription that kicks of with their special inauguration issue. The cover photo they sent, designed, one must assume to make me want to subscribe.:
Honestly, I did a double-take. A triple-take. Because if a feminist looks like President-elect Obama then a feminist looks exactly like somebody who has done nothing, and I do mean nothing, to suggest that he will fight for increased social justice for women. This is the person who has retained Jon "The Groper" Favreau as his chief speechwriter; installed Tim "I'm not really for serious guarantees of Roe v. Wade" Kaine as the DNC Chair; appointed far fewer women to his cabinet or to cabinet-level positions than Bill Clinton did and barely the number that George W. Bush has (more on that here and here and best of all here). Between the choice of Rick "Women who exercise their right to abortion are like Nazis" Warren to give the invocation at the Inaugural Ceremony itself and total silence with regard to how the economic stimulus package he is proposing will aid those likely to be hit hardest - yes, women - I have to say that if President-Elect is Ms. Magazine's idea of what a feminist looks like, I would hate to see their vision of what an anti-feminist looks like.
While I will not be buying a subscription to Ms. Magazine, their solicitation reminded me that now more than ever, I want to stay the course with 51 Percent (even if it means, yes, seeking contributions from folks during these tough times - something I feel uncomfortable about - but eventually we will attract major benefactors and they, combined with the small dollar contributors will fuel the development of the Museum of Misogynistic Memorabilia and help us build up our speaker's bureau).
I founded 51 Percent because I realized that most preexisting women's organizations got sidetracked somewhere along the way - sold out, bought off, distracted. I will not let that happen to 51 Percent. Unless we understand the basic injustice of a society where the majority remains vastly under-represented in public life (not just in politics but also in politics), we will get more magazine covers from purported feminist publications that applaud the feminism (!?!) of a incoming President who has ignored even this list of recommendations for moving justice for women to the fore of his administration.
SEE 51 Percent and help out!
CLICK HERE FOR MS. MAGAZINE EMAIL ADDRESSES & A TEMPLATE LETTER TO SEND THEM!!
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