Comments on: If “This is What a Feminist Looks Like” (see below), is NOW now open to a male president?

By: BAC

BAC — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:21:07 +0000

What purpose does it serve in the advancement of women’s rights to throw an entire group of women under the bus?

The rights currently enjoyed by the women participating in this discussion were secured by the very women you are now bashing. How “feminist” is that?

And if you don’t like how NOW is being run, then organize your supporters and take it over! It is, after all, a grassroots movement.

Anytime we spend time pointing a finger of blame sideways is a distraction from pointing our finger at the true cause of our problems — the patriarchy. (Which at the moment is above us.)

BAC

By: therio

therio — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:58:06 +0000

Why have a NOW organization anyway, barry is solving everything, right?

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:18:18 +0000

fsteele

I remember Ms. Harrop’s comment:

“That the women are beginning to have a good time
is an especially bad sign for Barack Obama’s campaign.”
— Froma Harrop

I loved it and I loved her writing last year.

If only her prediction had proved true……

By: fsteele

fsteele — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:25:34 +0000

Humor is one reason I love PUMA! It was born in humor, at the moment when we most needed it:c.May 31. Anger/frustration/stifled-voices bursting out in the humor of “Party Unity My Ass!” at Riverdaughter’s. A term that quickly spread, a name for feelings that many had but no way to name them.

Puma has been a first-response with humor ever since. When the Favreau groping photo first came out, a few serious people condemned it — but some Puma sites instantly photoshopped the photo and spread the satirical versions.

Here’s a quote that may pre-date the naming of Puma, but it’s the same feeling:

That the women are beginning to have a good time
is an especially bad sign for Barack Obama’s campaign.
— Froma Harrop

By: Constance

Constance — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:04:09 +0000

NOW lives in it’s own little world. You can’t alienate them because they never come up for air and they won’t know what anyone else is thinking or saying about them. Their web site is not interactive, you can’t even reach them. If they didn’t have such contempt for housewives they could hire a few to reorganize their fund raising and their priorities so they could get off the race issues, gay issues, transgender issues, hate crime for everything but crimes against women issue, etc, etc, etc and actually focus on WOMEN’S ISSUES. Catholic school mothers are amazing fund raisers. I very much appreciate the jokes and humor. That is one thing that has been sadly missing from the Feminist movement.

By: Ms Placed Democrat » Obama Is A Fraud, Not A Feminist

Ms Placed Democrat » Obama Is A Fraud, Not A Feminist — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:34:12 +0000

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By: KayJL

KayJL — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:20:13 +0000

The Donald…because Mr. Tinglepants needs to be FIRED.

By: Stray Yellar Dawg

Stray Yellar Dawg — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:25:43 +0000

My feeling is one of betrayal.

Ms. Mag was like a mother to me in the 80′s… and now that she has a shiny new boyfriend…. she is turning her eyes away from the abuse her daughters have endured at his very own hands.

I am just sick. I suppose I’ll spend a few days blogging about it… trying to “get over it.”

http://syd4.blogspot.com/2009/.....aried.html

By: KendallJ

KendallJ — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:45:48 +0000

Talk about having the fox gaurd the chicken coop!!! MS. MAGAZINE HAS REALLY GONE OFF THE DEEP END..

By: KendallJ

KendallJ — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:42:17 +0000

Did anyone notice that Donna Brazile in a columnist for Ms. Magazine. Yes, the women who sat there on CNN and didn’t say a word while several others on the panel she was sitting on discussed why it was OK for “some” women to be called bitches.