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Weiner or Huma: Whose Humiliation Is It?

Jun 11, 2011 | 6 Comments

Numerous headlines and “news”paper articles have declared Huma Abedin to be the “humiliated” wife of the tweeting-Weiner:
The New York Post informed us yesterday that “[T]he disgraced Democratic lawmaker who humiliated her, meanwhile, stayed holed up in his Queens home in exclusive Forest Hills Gardens all day on Wednesday”.  We learned from the Daily News that “Rep. Anthony Weiner’s humiliated wife was still wearing her wedding ring Thursday when she was spotted for the first time since her husband ‘fessed to a sext scandal,” earlier today.  The Chicago Sun Times …

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Whose Humiliation Is It?

Jun 11, 2011 | No Comment

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary ClintonNumerous headlines and “news”paper articles have declared Huma Abedin to be the “humiliated” wife of the tweeting-Weiner:
The New York Post informed us yesterday that “[T]he disgraced Democratic lawmaker who humiliated her, meanwhile, stayed holed up in his Queens home in exclusive Forest Hills Gardens all day on Wednesday”. We learned from the Daily News that “Rep. Anthony Weiner’s humiliated wife was still wearing …

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It’s Very Complicated

Jan 30, 2010 | 4 Comments

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Everyone (starting with my mother) is raving about the new Meryl Streep/Alec Baldwin manifesto for baby boomer women.  Yes, the successful, enviably glowing, older woman can score the overweight, bumbling, self indulgent, needy boy-man back from the sexy, bitchy, young bombshell. Wow, what a step forward for women in a post-feminist age!
No, not really.   It is not only socially acceptable for men to trade up with a much younger woman for their Act …

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Report From UN Millennium Development Goals Awards Ceremony

Mar 18, 2009 | 3 Comments

Note: We are pleased to present this guest post by Risa A. Levine, an attorney in New York. It is cross-posted to Facebook.

Last night I attended the UN’s Millennium Development Goals Awards Ceremony. Although the member nations have identified the achievement of Gender Equality by 2015 as one the seven goals of world leaders, the Millennium Campaign failed to use this forum to demonstrate their own commitment to gender equality. Not one award recipient was female, only one in a long program of speakers was a woman, and of …

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