Archive for June 2008
awkward!
Oh, to be a fly on the wall for this little convo. Would have killed Senator Feinstein to put out a cheese plate?
On another campaign-related note, I find it fascinating how the Obama campaign is changing political culture (perhaps, even expanding the traditional boundaries of who engages in political discourse). “American surprise us and let a black man guide us.”
hillary and would’ve been serendipity
I’m an Obama guy and have been since I read a New Yorker profile of him back in 2004. Given any one of my demographic characteristics, it’s pretty predictable (like everything in my happy, but in-lock-step-with-a-fitted-regression-line life). But after last night’s victory, I wanted to say a word about Senator Clinton.
Consider this: today is the 89th anniversary of Congress proposing the 19th amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Imagine if Hillary Clinton had won the primary process and stood today as the victor on the anniversary of a great leap in the women’s suffrage movement. What a beautiful, serendipitous moment it would have been to see the first female presidential nominee on such an important date on the feminist calendar. Of course, Hillary’s campaign as is has been important and historic. Clearly, it has inspired many women and girls across the country.
I hope and expect to see a female president in my lifetime. I just hope it’s a woman with more political conviction and a truly progressive agenda. Barbara Boxer, maybe?
why i hate sex and the city
Okay, I guess I get it. Wouldn’t it be nice to be rich and (relatively) young and live in New York and go to cool bars and restaurants and have a close circle of friends to chit-chat with?
But here’s my issue: Sex and the City was considered groundbreaking because it featured women who were independent and successful in the way that men are. However, to me, it seems misogynistic that the show implicitly suggests that when women gain independence and parity with men, they use it to have casual sex and engage in rank commodity fetishism (see Carrie’s repeated declarations of love for overpriced shoes). Seriously, are these best representatives of womankind we can find? I think not and, yet, girls and women across the country idolize these insipid, callus, consumers.
Not convinced that Carrie and friends are as bad as all that? Check out Roger Ebert’s review, which makes the SITC movie sound like a Farrelly Brothers flick.
