Politics getting interesting -- even to me

nobody@vox.com(Heike) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:55:52 -0500

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.

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Feminism and Tennis - A great COMBO

nobody@vox.com(Heike) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:45:36 -0400

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.

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Politics getting interesting -- even to me

Feminism and Tennis - A great COMBO