The Washington Post didn't lose me because "print is dead." They lost me because they gave a bigot a platform, defended her, and tried to make it seem like she was kidding.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media
Women who stand above the firing line while drawing it obviously don't get that it's not about being "victimized." It's about being treated differently than men, especially in the traditional media.
Julie Klausner | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media
Vanity Fair's "Who Says Women Aren't Funny?" piece was like a fumbled attempt to throw a lampshade over drunk grandpa when the party guests arrived, a year late.
Paula Gordon | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
Clinton's gender neither gives her a pass nor does it distract me, any more than it excuses the ugliness Ann Coulter and other wrong-wing women smear across the nation.
Andrew Belonsky | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
It may have been prudent for Clinton to have highlighted her feminine wiles -- or, at least, biology -- to her advantage.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.02.2008 | Politics
The media continue to portray Clinton as strongly viable, if not quite the frontrunner. This is a remarkable feat by her campaign, and a failure by journalists to accurately portray the state of the race.
Rebecca Walker | Posted 03.01.2008 | Politics
Perhaps a feminism that has not responded to the needs of its constituents needs to die. Perhaps Obama is unintentionally killing feminism and facilitating the rise of "feminisms."
Kate Betts | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living
Is the anti-Hillary movement in the fashion front row just a case of piling on? Or is it French male chauvinism?
Leslie Griffith | Posted 02.28.2008 | Media
Objectification is not the same as admiration. It is just a sad attempt for anatomical standing ovations. You are an anchor woman for goodness sake.
Jackson Katz | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
Millions of Democratic primary voters are casting aside the old idea of the American president as the embodiment of white patriarchal authority.
Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 02.22.2008 | Business
Many of the conservative judges on the high court may not always be on the side of workers.
June Koch | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
In terms of historical importance, the election of a woman to the nation's highest political office would not remotely be comparable, domestically or internationally, to the election of an African-American.
Jackson Katz | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
I want to address another aspect of the David Shuster/pimp controversy: the way that what is considered acceptable discourse in a presidential race can give us insight into social norms.
Jessica Wakeman | Posted 02.17.2008 | Living
I don't want the only people who are "allowed" to say "dirty" words about women to be the people who are trying to hurt us.
Terence Smith | Posted 02.15.2008 | Media
Reporters love a good story, and Obamamania is as good as they come. There has not been such drama in a presidential race in years. Reporters are suckers for a story that writes itself.
Jennifer Baumgardner | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
A bitter reality is beginning to sink in for me, a daughter of Second Wave feminism: a "woman" could be president, but we don't mean any woman who actually exists.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
Barack isn't to blame for the nastiness against Hillary and demeaning women so men might advance. But he's hardly denounced it. Many of his supporters revel in it.
Linda Keenan | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
It bothers me that she seemed to pretty herself up and changed her name early in the Arkansas years, not to further even her own career, but to advance her husband's.
Robin Gerber | Posted 02.13.2008 | Media
Both Fox and MSNBC need more Keith Olbermans and Anderson Coopers, men who aren't afraid to call sexism by its real name.
Patricia O’Brien | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
At this point in history, the boys who want to jeer and laugh have the heady sense that they have been unleashed.
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
There is a generational conflict happening, and the breaking point seems to be split by women who are 40 years old.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 02.12.2008 | Media
Some people thought this called for Shuster's firing, but they're wrong: It called for an examination of a pattern of behavior. At this point, Clinton and her team should know that any more is gonna smack of politics; her point has been amply, amply made.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
The Clinton operation's dismissive attitude towards the states that she loses feels uncomfortably like a post-facto snub by the aggrieved party in a break up: "he's not really my type anyway."
Taylor Marsh | Posted 02.09.2008 | Media
The truth about Shuster is that he never intended to apologize; didn't want to; was made to. This exchange reveals it. It's also why he ended up getting suspended.
Jamie Frevele | Posted 02.08.2008 | Media
Lately, as Shuster has been allowed more screen time, it is more than a little apparent that he could be gunning for his own show. If that's the case, he may have had support -- at least until now.
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Alex Leo | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media