Newsweek:
These 11 women came from many different backgrounds, but they all had big dreams. The path topower meant facing obstacles and their biggest fears.
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Women need to go back to what they are good at!
gossiping,crying for no obvious reason, watching soaps day after day, buying shiny useless things that are of no practical use, wrapping their children in cotton wool so they can grow up pathetic weak humanbeings like their moms, the list go on and on!
Dobberboss needs to grow up.
What idiotic comments. You need to move someplace where you prescription might work. But, damn, I can't think of any country that would have you.
I think i hit a nerve people! heheehe
Arianna - a woman of power, and of integrity.
That is just one person's view. Huff&Puff may exist for many reasons but having integrity is not one of them. The viewpoints here are very bias and slanted with yellow journalism. That is not respectable. The Newsweek list may based on income potenital like the other Masison Avenue queens of drama, self promotion and endless hype.
Good entries. Especially about the viewpoints expressed here. Scroll up and down any responses to featured articles on any page and you'l find hate filled language aimed at anything republican or independent, and especially the Bush Administration. Reasoning behind the hate language is never challenged, unless, of course, someone with a right-leaning attitude dares to object and then the censors are in full bloom.
HuffPo rarely offers a converse opinion to that of the left. The featured articles all aim at anything that can diminish this country's current political leadership. And even when a poor decision is made at the lowest levels of government it is portrayed as a fault of the Bush Administration. But when a shady act is from the left side, such as Sandy Berger now working for Hideous Hillary, nothing is heard.
I rest my case.
Excuse me, is there something special about Rachel Ray that I'm not aware of? I was under the impression she was an entirely fabricated creation - a purposefully manufactured 'Oprah' for bouncy white chicks. Not exactly my idea of a leader who rose to heights through decades of hard work and determination. Would Ricki Lake and Jenni Jones be equal models of powerful women in that case? Maybe Posh Spice!
I work in a corporation where more than half of my superiors are women. Each of them can outthink me, outwork me, and outplan me without breaking a sweat. So to my mind using some daytime talkshow sweety as an example of American 'woman power' is more than a bit condecending.
That is odd that she's on the cover ;)
Maybe she also "divorced well."
MikeDu
Rachel Ray gets to visit a new town each week and eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner as a part of her show! Not a bad way to make a living - and she is very cute, by the way. There are about two good restaurants in my city and all I get to do is spend money and gain some more weight.
By the way, I don't doubt that half of your superiors at corporations are women. was that the purpose of the feminist movement? That women could be as ruthless and ignorant as men?
Are men and women meant to work equally to ensure that the "Global Ecomony" thrives because one third of the world has to live on less than two dollars a day?
Women can do anything men can do - that's for sure. How about both women and men starting to think in a more enlightened manner. Soon.
MikeDu--agreed. Rachel Ray is the worst cook ever. If anyone is following her recipes, they soon learn they are recipes for disaster. What a fake. Anybody whose "power" comes from cooking badly should be stopped. But then, the Food Nertwork is no longer about learning how to cook and eat well--it's about contests, and lame chicks who invented soim food slan like "YUM-O" or "EVOO". Give me a fucking break.
Julia Child would be appalled at her lack of culinary skill!
Most people can outthink you, sorry to say.
all this is power?
-we're at war with the wrong country over lies
-elections are being stolen
-children are abandoned
-the national treasure has been looted
-reproductive choice is under withering attack
-coulter thinks women shouldn't vote
-fox thinks women should be eye candy
the cover is just for fashion. pointless prattle and not much more. useless self-congratulation. it's so soothing to look at that cover and ignore the fascist country in which these women are 'celebrated' for their power.
I'm too frustrated to laugh sarcasticly at the concept of celebrating this assemblage of politically palatable and generally useless celebrity. Some of them eve have websites, oh my!
holy sh*t, is that Rachael Ray on the cover?
America land of the democracy has yet to ever elect a woman President, ironic. Many other countries that are far less progressive than the U.S. such as Israel, India, Philipine and other have reached this pinacle year ago before us. Call it discrimination or any other reason you want, reality speaks for itself. Women in the eyes of men are still trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive. Do you believe Women are Better Leaders than Men? -------> http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=653
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You can find a number of formidable female leaders a lot further back in history.
Hatchepsut, Boudicca , and Queen Elizabeth ( the first one of course) to name but three.
Just enough women are allowed into the club in order to keep the illusions that everyone has a chance
Congratulations Arianna,
I wish you could find a way into the national political arena in an elected capacity....
In other words....
RUN FOR SENATE...... Please.
Cindy Sheehan? sheeech!
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I like what I see.
Rachel Ray is cute, yet somewhat powerful and Arianna is hot and powerful.
Apparently, women can be powerful without imitating men.
I want to see more women in power.
It's not like our male-dominated government, corporations, and clergy are making life pleasant for everyone.
Aren't people curious to know what happens with women on top?
Congratulations Arianna!!
Being a woman, I find I'm torn on the issue of women and power. On one hand, more power to myself and every other woman who wants to get ahead but I've found that my biggest obstacles in getting ahead are women.
I've found that the women I've worked for are, in general, more resistant to change, paranoid and overcompensate for their shortcomings. These same traits can be found in sh*tty leaders of either gender but I can count on one hand the number of female coworkers or superiors that I have respect for and learned from.
I have the "same" hormones, emotional needs, sensitivities, etc. as any other woman does but I leave that at home. When I go to work, I go to work. If I'm feeling threatened or insecure, it's my own fault and I need to shape myself up, not sabotage someone else. If i feel someone is out to get my job then I better be fighting as hard as I can to keep it, otherwise I don't deserve it. If an idea of mine is rejected I don't cry, I ask why.
This issue isn't about women acting like men or not being "manly" enough...it's about work ETHIC. That doesn't have gender boundaries. Do you consider Bill Gates successful because he has a penis? I'm not naive and I know gender bias exists but in my opinion and that of many successful people of either gender, their biggest complaints are about the undeserving and unproductive, regardless of their cup size.
WOW! What a damn joke.
I guess that Condilessa (sp?) Rice & Ann Coulter were too busy to be interviewed.
I can only assume that they were too occupied doing other stuff.
And what about Ruth Ginsberg? She could have described to us the unbearable trials & tribulations of her scathing Supreme Court "confirmation hearings." (sic)
Would have just been too much to bear.
JohnKemp
John, Condi Rice and the Ann Coulter always have an open forum at the Heritage Foundation, Fox News, and at any right wing extremist media outlet. That's Ann's job and only purpose. Don't think otherwise.
If Arianna had not accopmlished this as described in Wikipedia nobody would know her name today.
"She met millionaire Michael Huffington at a 1985 party hosted by Ann Getty in San Francisco. The couple were married in 1986."
Arianna uses rich men. She is not a success in the way Golda Meir was. She is a calculating opportunist who by marriage to Huffington acquired the resources to be where she is now. I sincerely doubt she would have been on anybody's radar screen without marrying the California millionaire candidate for governor.
The husband loses the election to Gray Davis and suddenly Arianna has an epiphany about conservative compassion. She discovers it's a lie. Get real!
Then after her reincarnation is politically complete she tosses her hat in the ring in the recall election. She was a columnist at Salon then and I cancelled my subscription the day Huffington announced her candidacy.
Sorry, folks, but this is a very weak example of a woman of power. And lately, her blog is becoming so crowded with paparazzi material I frankly hardly read it anymore.
The blog editors can block this as ad hominem attack material, but the posting is about Huffington's success and I must question her gold digging approach. She used Michael Huffington to get where she is.
Well, I guess you could say the same of Hillary Clinton or any of your Republican Women running for president. Oh, wait. You don't run women for president. Anyway, she got famous from her guest spots on "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, where she even impressed us Democrats with her humanity, her passion for the issues, and her poise. Even as a Democrat, I could never really find anything to say against her positions. Maybe that's why she defected on you guys. She seems to be a person of principle and strength, so no wonder she dumped the bums, hubby and Newt, and came over to the light side of the force.
I am not a Republican and I don't really think Arianna is either. GOP women for president? Elizabeth Dole? Christine Todd Whitman would have been a good one if Bush hadn't screwed her over with a "back to the stone age" EPA agenda.
Rachel Ray, on the other hand, got where she is by sheer vocal brawn. That voice sounds like she is hollering at a class full of middle school kids all the time.
Rachel Ray is a goddess.I wanna pour EVOO all over her and make babies....
Women want to be the Sun and Shining Center of the universe.
Just remember, if you ever write a story about your girlfriend or wife, mention how beautiful she is, she'll likely forgive everything else.
Not at all likely.
10/7/07
3:45pm
Burlington Library
Maybe this is "old-fashioned" but I think women should be careful to dress in a business-like way and not use their femininity or "flirt." The kind of power you get from flirting is not the kind of power you want.
I suppose you would say men should be careful not to use their masculinity.
Why don't we all wear burkas?
We'll have a perfect meritocracy with no interference from flirting or charisma.
Actually, we'll have to make sure people's voices are business-like.
We can all speak through vocoders to eliminate individualistic charisma in people's voices.
Balzac, thanks for my laugh of the day!
Until we're totally replaced by robots, however, people will always find ways to use style when substance is in short supply.
My Journey to The Bottom . . .
. . . of a an excavation pit were we are replacing this broken sewer line that ties into this condo high rise where all these ultra rich women live. Right now we're shoveling the sh*t out right now with that back loader over there. Not a glamorous life but someone has to do it.
Pays not to bad either. Some benefits. Steady work.
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women on top..
nothing wrong with that..
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First Posted: 10- 6-07 09:50 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:45 AM