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Can It, Camille Camille Paglia's hatred of Hillary Clinton has been well-documented in American publications, but, not content to keep her vitriol to one continent, Paglia has written a screed entitled "Why Women Shouldn't Vote For Hillary Clinton" for the Telegraph. Paglia includes her customary insults towards Hillary's looks ("Frumpy, stumpy and myopic, she identified with the new idolatry of shiny careerism promulgated by the second-wave feminism of the late 1960s, when she emerged from posh Wellesley College"), accuses Clinton of "anti-male rhetoric" and concludes, "If Hillary loses, batten the hatches against a mass resurrection of paranoid, paleo-feminist martyrs, counting their wounds and wailing at the blood-red moon." Oh yes, Camille. Beware those evil feminist werewolves! They're out to destroy us all, you know. [Telegraph]

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the personal is political

Young Feminists Can't Decide Between Obama & Clinton

At Wellesley college, Hillary Clinton's alma mater, young women are split on the Clinton vs. Obama issue, The Washington Post reports. For instance: Katie Chanpong and Aubre Carreon Aguilar are both feminists and political activists. "If you're a woman, you vote for Hillary because of what it means to women everywhere," says Ms. Chanpong, a sophomore. Ms. Aguilar, a senior, says: "If I'm supposed to vote for Hillary just because I'm a woman, that's kind of sexist." The female-only school finds many of its students are having to decide what it means to be a feminist, writes Eli Saslow. "Do you vote for a woman to shatter the glass ceiling and further the cause? Or do you make an empowered, individual decision that is not confined by gender?" Ona Keller, the co-president of Wellesley College Democrats, is "hard-core Wellesley." She wears vintage ERA T-shirts, calls incoming students first-years instead of freshmen. "Everybody who knows me thinks of me as a feminist," Ms. Keller says. "Nobody imagined I wouldn't vote for Clinton." More »

4:00 PM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By dodai
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Latest by n/a: I must disagree with one point in this piece. I do not believe the primary sign of womanhood nor the purest form of feminism is "individualized empowerment." Feminism is about relationships! It is about belonging to others in community and more »