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Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Obama Arms

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Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Medicine

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Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Tough Love

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Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Your Garden

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Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Skin Care

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Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Super Special

Sarah takes a look back at some of her favorite Target Women pods. For more Sarah... more

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Margaret Cho's stand up tour "Beautiful"

Margaret Cho mixes a little raunch in with her inner beauty on her stand up comedy... more

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3 Weeks on T, Changes, and a little life update

Witness my transformation from female to male

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Eve Ensler on Sarah Palin

Please read this.

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Gloria Steinem's take on Sarah Palin.

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How did Sarah Palin become a symbol of women's empowerment? And how did I, a die-hard feminist, end up terrified at the idea of a woman in the White House?

I have been dreaming about Sarah Palin. (Apparently, I'm not alone.) I wish I could say that I'd been conjuring witty, politically sophisticated nightmares in which she leads troops into Vancouver or kindergartners in the recitation of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." But, alas, mine have been nonsensical, kiddie-style doozies in which she kidnaps my cats, or enjoys a meal with my girlfriends while I bang on the restaurant window. There's also a chilling one, in which a scary witch stands on a wind-swept hill and leers at me.

What troubles me most -- aside from the fact that there is suddenly a Republican candidate potent enough to so ensnare my psyche -- is my sense that these are dreams in which it matters very much that Palin is a woman.

I have been writing about feminism for more than five years; I have been covering the gender politics of the 2008 presidential election for more than two. And I am absolutely gobsmacked by the intensity of my feelings about Sarah Palin. I am stunned not only by the way in which her candidacy has changed the rules in the gender debate, or how it is twisting and garbling the fight for women's progress. But I'm also startled by how Palin herself is testing my own beliefs about how I react to women in power.

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So much of this article is very quotable! My favorite paragraph is:

Palin's femininity is one that is recognizable to most women: She's the kind of broad who speaks on behalf of other broads but appears not to like them very much. The kind of woman who, as Jessica Grose at Jezebel has eloquently noted, achieves her power by doing everything modern women believed they did not have to do: presenting herself as maternal and sexual, sucking up to men, evincing an absolute lack of native ambition, instead emphasizing her luck as the recipient of strong male support and approval. It works because these stances do not upset antiquated gender norms. So when the moment comes, when tolerance for and interest in female power have been forcibly expanded by Clinton, a woman more willing to throw elbows and defy gender expectations but who falls short of the goal, Palin is there, tapped as a supposedly perfect substitute by powerful men who appreciate her charms.

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Catholic university nixes feminist scholar for abortion beliefs

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The Women (2008) movie trailer

The Women (2008) movie trailer :: VIDEOS.2ESS.COM Veteran producer/director Diane... more

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Feminists cry foul over "Fat Princess" game

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Fatherless Homes and What Feminism Really Is

Opinion piece of feminism and what equality among genders REALLY is. Because it's not just about women "overcoming" the men. We've all got something to gain from this.

People think that by labeling myself a Feminist, I am silently proclaiming to the world that I hate men. I don't. Feminists aren't all lesbians. I love men. I'm in love with a man. I can't generalize the other half of the human race into a bunch of dogs who do nothing but fuck, eat, drink, and beat on their women when the urge hits them. No good feminist can, without taking their eyes off the prize we all seek: true equality. Bitching about EVERY MAN is just an attempt to make women higher than men, and, correct me if I'm wrong, but when it comes to true equality, if that's how you're handling this movement, you're not doin' it right!

That said, feminism -- the struggle for equality between women AND men -- cannot be achieved without men. If feminism was about the equality between women, we'd be fighting for equality AMONG women, which would probably contain arguments on race, religion, culture...but not men. See the difference, ladies and gents?

In my short lifetime, I have witnessed the rise and fall of my household, as well as the familial progressions of some acquaintances and friends. Of my close friends, only two have had both a mother and a father in their households.

Other than that, pretty much everyone else shared my condition: surviving by their single mom, no father in sight. My mom had a boyfriend, at one point, whom, as far as I knew, had no real job to speak of, and a history of drug abuse. If I wanted to form my idea of what a real man should be like off of him, I would want a man who will go to any conniving lengths to get what he wants. (I dated a man like that, by the way. He ran me $3000.) Not long after my mom became paralyzed by a tumor, her boyfriend disappeared as well, much to the relief of my brother and I.

It's a fact proven by US Department of Health & Human Services that 71% of all pregnant teen girls are from fatherless homes, and it's also a theory that most women never get over the absence of their fathers. Looking back at my first boyfriend and the heartache I caused for my own mom from all the times I tried to defend him when he purposely terrorized me with what I call "pregnancy threats," I see now that I easily could have been one of those knocked-up girls as early as fourteen. Without my brother, the only positive male role model for the first 16 years of my life, I could very well have been a statistic.

Some women never meet people like my brother. Some girls never know how good men should act and treat women. They, like me, grow up with skewed visions of love and relationships.

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Women With Long Finger Nails Complaining That iPhone Is Sexist

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Tampon Chandelier and more feminist art (??)

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Clothesline Project -- airing dirty laundry, ending secrets

By Julie Soller in Los Angeles, CA For the past 12 years, every spring a group of... more

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More Life Lessons From The Hills

The Hills is my least favorite show on the planet. Especially now when they make the... more

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A dose of self loathing, thanks Glamour Mag!

I hate the endless retouching of women's bodies in magazines. Why can't we... more

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