tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693738848429710464.post8793347794121217065..comments2024-03-27T11:11:49.219-04:00Comments on Girl with Pen: Is Obama Leading Like a Woman?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693738848429710464.post-45411981321029817672011-02-17T08:37:07.526-05:002011-02-17T08:37:07.526-05:00The electric chair was invented by a dentist.car i...The electric chair was invented by a dentist.<a href="http://insureyes.com/" rel="nofollow">car insurance rate</a>Nikolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15568774607420453136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693738848429710464.post-13965954102525752722008-02-25T11:08:00.000-05:002008-02-25T11:08:00.000-05:00With the nice comments made, can I also ask your r...With the nice comments made, can I also ask your readers to work through a couple of things Goodman says that are very troubling?<BR/><BR/><I>These are disheartening days for Hillary supporters. Not just because of the string of losses but because of the kind of loss. Neither the strategists nor the candidate had illusions about the hurdles that would face the first woman president in American history.. . So, has the women's movement made life easier? For another man?</I><BR/><BR/>Now a couple of responses. HRC isn't the first woman to run, and to face the double bind (i.e., "you can NOT be a credible woman candidate AND also womanly"). Our American sexist problem with the "either masculinist OR feminist" discourse is precisely the binding binary Goodman fails to help us with. <BR/><BR/>Thankfully, third wave feminists (yes, those who are also women) are refusing such boxed in choices. What if some day we have all women as front runners for both parties? It could happen! What if in that world then, the candidates exhibited many different discourses? And then the voters (and readers of Goodman's columns) could say, "I'm voting for her because she's womanly, but not for her because she's not."<BR/><BR/>(But let me, a male, get a little subjective here too. When Obama, because he's a man, leads like a woman--which is not a bad thing!, then give us men and women a break. Please don't put male feminists or feminist allies--if you must--in a double bind either. I don't think third wave feminists, who are women, want such choices imposed, even on men--No?)J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693738848429710464.post-67709497594344350222008-02-25T10:23:00.000-05:002008-02-25T10:23:00.000-05:00Welcome back, Girl with Pen, if the mountains are ...Welcome back, Girl with Pen, if the mountains are now so far away.<BR/><BR/>The astute ones, of course, are Goodman and Kohrs Campbell. Even though Goodman didn't get a quote in from you (could've been her editor), no doubt you helped her get her thoughts together. And thanks for passing her thoughtful article along to us.<BR/><BR/>The other astute one is Professor Cramer (aka one of your guest posters, aka Renee and Ann Harpold). She makes this great comment that needs repeating here: <BR/><BR/>"I think we could push it a bit further and say that Obama's rhetoric is not only feminist, it is nonviolent. And the reaction of many on the left to marginalize this nonviolent feminist speech is disheartening. . . So 'pussy' [a word used to diss Ombama] isn't just misogynist, it has the effect of denigrating nonviolent discourse and limiting its efficacious use in US politics."<BR/><BR/>(Thanks for the link, and your kind comments.)J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.com