2 posts tagged “feminism”

Interesting Op-Ed in the NYTimes today by Gloria Steinem.  I've found it interesting reading today - everyone hypothesizing Hillary's NH win over Obama. 

This is one of her most interesting excerpts:

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe: because sexism is still confused with nature as racism once was; because anything that affects males is seen as more serious than anything that affects “only” the female half of the human race; because children are still raised mostly by women (to put it mildly) so men especially tend to feel they are regressing to childhood when dealing with a powerful woman; because racism stereotyped black men as more “masculine” for so long that some white men find their presence to be masculinity-affirming (as long as there aren’t too many of them); and because there is still no “right” way to be a woman in public power without being considered a you-know-what.

I get a NYTimes email link each day and at the bottom it has "On This Day" which cites something newsworthy that had happened on this date.  Here's today's: 

On Sept. 20, 1973, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all tennis match.