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White House Report on Women: Modern Lady

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The recent White House Report on Women has been a long time in the making - more than 40 years. But infoMania's "Modern Lady," Erin Gibson, discovers that Obama's boys bear tidings that are mixed at best. Women are slowly inching toward pay equality with men, for instance, but at a rate that makes "glacial" seem like a 100-meter dash. Bonus: Katie Couric mangles the lyrics to '80s dance songs.

For good reason, no woman has ever had the balls, moxie or delusion to claim the title of "the world's premiere basic cable expert on lady stuff."

Until now.

Meet Erin Gibson. She's freakishly tall, sort of smart, and willing to do just about anything to get a bemused chuckle.

Her segment, Modern Lady, on infoMania, is dedicated to reporting and commenting on what's happening on Planet Lady.*

*The asterisk next to "Planet Lady" is actually a typo.

For more Erin visit: http://current.com/shows/infomania/modern-lady/ and Current TV

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4 comments // White House Report on Women: Modern Lady // Video

  • tverdell
  • asherp
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • Voted up for content. Good comic relief in the delivery too. When I was
      a boy my family used to sit together in our living room and watch the
      black & white TV series the Honeymooners starring Jackie Gleason
      Audry Meadows,Art Carney and Joyce Randolph. (Obviously you can
      tell I'm of the XY persuasion which is why I traditionaly listed the male
      stars first.) On the TV series Ralph Cramden's wife Alice quoted an
      old adage on the role of women as the domestic engineers of the
      family: " Man works from Sun to Sun, but womens' work is never done."
      My take on this goes beyond the male role as hunter gatherer, and the
      woman's role as farmer and home maker. My take on this is that the
      XX gender is simply stonger and superior in many ways. It has to be
      to bear children. For my part I look up to women. Hat's off to them.

      I've seen episodes of Outer Limits where there were only women
      in the world. Where there was no war, famine, diease. And all was
      at peace with a natural balance of vegetarian farmers. If humans
      are even still around in 2046 after devastating the Earth as they
      have, I look forward to that economic equality. I believe it would be
      a better, safer, more humane world if the females of the species
      ruled this world. Though they're a breed apart as Daniel Day Lewis
      said to Madelyn Stowe in their 1992 movie, their way is invariably
      more constructive, which will endure. I hope I've managed to speak
      my peace without prejudice.

    • 1 year ago
  • TwinkleTwinkleStellastar
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      TwinkleTwinkleStellastar  
    • PressCore:

      You just need to rethink that whole man's job as hunter-gatherer and woman as farmer thing you said.

      Society either started agriculture and were farmers, which happened roughly 10,000 years ago, or they were hunter-gatherers. There is nothing in humanity's past about women being farmers while men are hunter gatherers.

      And furthermore if men died, plenty of women would hunt. Actually: women DO hunt, like right now, today, in the present, and they did in the past too. We would not all be freaking vegetarian farmers in a future without men.

    • 1 year ago
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