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more about #eleanorsmeal sassenach: This is the first time anyone's talked about MS Magazine in what, 20 years? more » sparklytoesfairydustbutt: Feminism NEEDS men... otherwise the whole crusade is pointless. How is the world going to change if the men don't change?? more » Cimorene: I don't know. Feminists don't invite homophobic jackasses to preside over the pseudo-religious ceremony on their inauguration*. Feminists don't keep... more » PhillyLass: Are we still on this?! Fuck. more » Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: Them saying that a man can be a feminist is not anybody's actual argument. It's a total straw man. Anyway, Ms. has pictured many men ACTUALLY WEARIN... more » ellaesther: Ah. Actually reading the article. Well, it's an idea, I suppose. Back when I was at the Rape Crisis Center for five years, there would be very, very i... more » elitza owns the last Enzo shirt: I have always been under the impression that feminism was just the idea that men and women are equally capable and equally deserving of education, opp... more » MissyMcCLung: I think that any father of daughters should self identify as a feminist. Don't you want your girls to be well paid for their work, only have babies w... more » PilgrimSoul: Now who's protesting too much? Oh whatever, Obama's hot I should just get over myself, right? more » YourScreenplaySucks: [In their polling] 33 percent of men self-identify as feminists and 58 percent of women do. Among young women... the identification of themselves as ... more » Jessi Ramsey: the 44th President of the United States self-identifies as a feminist This is still hearsay, btw. more » JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: Jesus Christ, I thought the cover was self-explanatory. more » randomnessish: Hear, hear! If feminists are getting together at conferences and complaining about how nobody wants to identify as feminists, or trying to "re-brand" ... more » Ulookinatmyjunk, JOC: Maybe it's the culture of victimhood. Some people don't want to see the progress we've made. They'd rather bitch and moan about how we're not "there" ... more » Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: Abraham Lincoln: "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. " I'm sorry, but saying... more » SisterMaryMartha: Oh wait, side note: I think is why I had a Prince song in my head while walking to work.Which was, "This it what it sounds like, when doves cry" and a... more » nex0s: Cannot. Read. Comments. On. HuffPo. Ugh. Everyone's already bitching that he's not feminist enough and that he ONCE called a reporter "Sweetie". Pers... more » yvanehtnioj: She doesn't even address the picture, the photoshopped Superman pose, and all those implications. She acts like it's just a picture of him in a "This ... more » SisterMaryMartha: Bwahhahaha.I am going to just chuckle and come back to this thread tonight, with a glass of wine in hand. Have fun, kids. more » PilgrimSoul: Hopefully those annoying feminists will shut it now about women's rights! Obama to save us all from ourselves, film at 11! more » -
#controversies
Ms. Magazine's Eleanor Smeal, Kathy Spillar Explain The Obama Cover
After hearing lots about the Ms. Obama cover controversy from detractors (but only a short response from publisher Eleanor Smeal), we decided to go straight to Smeal — and executive editor Kathy Spillar — herself.
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#personalpolitical
Ms. Manners
Feminist Majority Foundation president and Ms. publisher Eleanor Smeal took to the electronic pages of the Huffington Post to respond to the Barack Obama cover kerfluffle, announcing: Obama does call himself a feminist. [HuffPo]
