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SarahMC
11/04/09

In reply to Michelle Obama: "I've Learned A Lot In My Life As A Mom"
Her relationship advice is a little trite. A man can't make you feel "whole." You have to be whole by yourself. Only then can a man make you "completely happy." #michelleobama
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Maritsa
11/04/09

@SarahMC: Yeaaaah. Also the "person who brings you complete and utter joy" might lead young girls to think it's supposed to be all sunshine and roses.

I love Mrs. O wholeheartedly, and I'm glad she's telling women not to settle, but the picture is a wee bit rosy. #michelleobama
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jigglyball
11/04/09

@SarahMC: But I've definitely been with people who made me feel less than. A lot of that is on me, but I've been with people who knew exactly how to make me feel small. #michelleobama
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banana_grabber
11/04/09

@SarahMC: Perhaps this is mincing words, but I didn't get the feeling that she was saying that the man makes you whole, but that you feel like you are whole around that person, which is kind of different. I've been in relationships where I really didn't feel like I could be my whole person around them and I'm glad to be married to someone that I do feel whole around, not that they complete me or anything. So perhaps she meant it like that. #michelleobama
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banana_grabber
11/04/09

@Maritsa: I think maybe she is talking about dating. Like if things aren't pretty rosy during dating, it's not like it's going to get better if you get married (which I do think some women assume). She has talked about marriage as being difficult, so I'm thinking maybe she is referring to a dating relationship here.

Of course, I might be projecting because I feel like my dating relationship with my husband really did make me feel complete and utter joy, which doesn't mean it was perfect, but it did really give me confidence that he was the one. #michelleobama
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Maritsa
11/04/09

@banana_grabber: Well, you may be right. The fact that she's talked about marriage requiring work made that quote all the more odd to me. The NYT Mag article was refreshingly honest, but this seems a bit treacly to me. #michelleobama
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banana_grabber
11/04/09

@Maritsa: It might have something to do with the audience as well. Glamour women want treacly and NYT people just want serious hard hitting journalism. Ok, that's totally an exaggeration, but it might be part of it. I appreciated the NYT article as well much more than this, but that's just me (but adore Michelle in all forms). I only like things dusted with sugar and not completely sugar coated, but to each their own. #michelleobama
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Cimorene
11/04/09

@banana_grabber: This is what I thought, too. I'm in the first relationship I've ever been in in which I can be my whole self around the other person, without self-censoring in any way. It's not because before I was in a relationship I was incomplete, as much as before I was in this particular relationship I tended to adopt various aspects of my personality to play the roles I felt were expected of me, rather than un-self-consciously being "myself" around my partner. Of course, "myself" is always a construct when talking about one's relationship with others, but now my current presentation of "self" is unthought, un-anxious, un-purposefully-incomplete-so-as-to-not-....

I don't have a problem with that, even though (perhaps because?) I've always felt that it's better to be alone than to compromise myself for a relationship. Which is why this is also my first actual relationship, as opposed to the whole "get drunk and make out with you every weekend" type relationship. So basically I've been following Michelle Obama's advice for years. #michelleobama
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Snowbunny
08/21/09

In reply to Out Of The Mouths Of Babes
I would interview Superman next, or maybe Jesus. Hey, if you're 11 you've already met and interviewed the president, you have got to have some serious connections.
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MagsCO
08/05/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
I love her music, but she's right up there with Megan Fox in the verbal diarrhea category.
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SisterRay73
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
Jesus, she's annoying. That one point about the double-standard was eloquent, but everything else she says and does is so beyond pretentious bullshit that it's mind-boggling. You're not Dylan. You're not Bowie. You're not a visionary genius. You make catchy dance tunes and wear wigs and no pants. Big freaking deal.
Unless...and here comes the cultural studies side of me...she is so intelligent and astutely aware of pop culture that her entire act and way of presenting herself is some commentary on how celebrities and artists act and is actually a send-up of all that bullshit. But that's probably giving her too much credit - I don't believe she's actually that smart. Just insanely pretentious.
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BadHairLife
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
If you sit there and point out the double standard affecting male and female musicians (has a male rapper ever been asked if the sexual references in his lyrics "detract" from his music?) I WILL call you a feminist because that is what you are.
The fact that you deny it just makes you a pandering asshole.
But I guess that's the difference between you and me.
(That and the whole pants-wearing thing.)
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greengrey
08/04/09

@BadHairLife: If a woman refuses to be called a feminist, I refuse to call her a feminist.
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geeurock
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
So Xtina rips of GaGas Style and GaGa rips off Xtinas 'if I was a man you wouldnt call me a ho' Schtick and none of it really means hooey because they both chose to make disposable music.
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TransFat
08/04/09

@geeurock: Swing and a hit says I.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
I died a little inside when she basically said feminists are man-hating lesbians in an EW interview. Her music wasn't so fun to me anymore.
Although I would be lying if I said that I didn't sing "Let's have some fun, this beat is sick, I wanna take ride on your disco stick" along to the car radio. Loudly.
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CherriSpryte
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
You know what word needs to become more popular? Misandrist. Misandrists are people who dislike/hate men and boys, and think they are inferior. (Its the opposite of misogyny.) Lady Gaga is confusing feminism with misandry, and they're two different things. Its not suprising, because confusion of the terms is so common, but its depressing. You can be a feminist and NOT a misandrist.
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Calraigh
08/04/09

@CherriSpryte: You make an excellent point.
It's something I wish someone would say on a late night talkshow like Letterman or something and get people talking about in a superficial way first, just so the general concept seeps into people's heads. Then lets have a discussion about it.
The distinction is so unbelievably important.
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Bekanator
08/05/09

@CherriSpryte: You see, I wish I knew this when I was younger, because when I was in high school, i believed that feminism and man-hating went hand in hand. I really wish there were more female figures out there who really understood what feminism was all about, and who could proudly declare themselves as feminists. Maybe young girls in this generation wouldn't have to wait until university to finally understand that they were, in fact, feminists.
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Asmo
08/05/09

@Bekanator: I thought feminism was basically misandry up until, well, until I started reading Jezebel, actually. It really is an incredibly common and damaging to feminism misconception.
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Scout
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
I'm curious, inasmuch as we are all entitled to changes in demeanor....why does she seem kinda cool here:
[www.youtube.com]
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Scout
08/04/09

@Scout: ooh and she "channels" Ms Winehouse
[www.youtube.com]
alright, I'll give it to her that she CAN sing and is actually a musician
but no more of these finger licking monster loving vagina owning but non feminist interviews please!
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TildeMarks
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
Yawn. Sorry, GaGa, but you lost me when you licked your fingers right at the start and said you have some special talent to see into the future.
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greengrey
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
I'd take girls who aren't feminists a lot more seriously if they'd stop voting, turn their paychecks over to fathers or husbands, refuse to have a career, refuse a line of credit, refuse to own property, realize that they are property, and most importantly NOT SPEAK.
You're dead to me, gaga.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
08/04/09

@greengrey: Oh, if only it were that simple! I wish I knew how to quit you Gaga! Damn you and your catchy as the flu music!
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BillyPilgrimisnotmylover
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
The hell? The backlash against the feminist label is winning if we can't even get a woman that wore a dress made out of stuffed Kermit faces to dare call herself a feminist.
The soothing part of my brain is suggesting that maybe we're better off, but fuck it.
I want everyone to cling to the feminism mantle like it's a bottle of brandy in the Arctic Tundra. Even Ranidae taxidermy fashionistas.
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lil.orphan.shannie
08/04/09

@BillyPilgrimisnotmylover: It was Animal's face, silly.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
08/04/09

@lil.orphan.shannie:
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Scout
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
Madonna, you are not my dear girl!
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battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
I don't get why people are so personally offended by the fact that Lady Gaga is so fing weird when she has plenty of male contemporaries that are and no one says boo. Kind of like people who bitch about Courtney Love being a mess and not acting her age when Mick Jagger is adored. She makes a perfectly fair point.
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Scout
08/04/09

@battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch: agreed - the perennial double standard.
so, she DID make a point but as previously mentioned, she should have OWNED IT 100%
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The Queen of No
08/04/09

In reply to Lady Gaga "Very Obsessed With Monsters And Playgirls," Not Feminism
Yeah, I'm tired of "feminism" being a bad word. Every time I bring it up, someone hisses one way or another. They just don't. get. it.
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