Palin should put baby before campaign Sep 10, 2008
I find it interesting that for over 30 years now women have been told by the likes of Gloria Steinem and 9-to-5 that you CAN have it all. You can go to work, you can choose to let strangers take care of your children, you can do it ALL. Well, here is a woman who is taking on a huge responsibility AND she has children. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Most Clinton backers say Palin's not for them Sep 7, 2008
To Gloria Steinem, the nation's most recognizable feminist, that logic is mystifying. "Selecting Sarah Palin ... is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters," Steinem wrote this week in the Los Angeles Times, arguing that McCain's running mate is seriously underqualified. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Palin rises above 'feeding frenzy' Sep 5, 2008
Gloria Steinem, writing for the opinion section, was both pragmatic and skeptical. Her message to McCain: "It won't work.". (Anchorage Daily News)
The Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse Sep 3, 2008
Remember when Gloria Steinem called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a "female impersonator". (Townhall.com)
'Real World' Cast Member Running for Congress Aug 29, 2008
Powell has also drawn the support of big names such as Chris Rock, George Soros and Gloria Steinem. "I have deep respect and appreciation for the civil rights movement," Powell said one recent morning after greeting commuters outside a Brooklyn subway station. (New York Post)
Former 'Real World' member running for Congress Aug 29, 2008
He's never held elected office, but has been able to draw on his own fame from "The Real World" and pull in celebrity supporters such as Chris Rock, George Soros, Dave Chappelle and Gloria Steinem. "I have deep respect and appreciation for the civil rights movement," Powell said one recent morning after greeting commuters outside a Brooklyn subway station. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Small college awakenedfuture senator to service Aug 26, 2008
There were speeches by everyone from conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly to women's rights advocate Gloria Steinem. In the 1980 presidential race, students formed coalitions for Carter, Edward Kennedy, independent John Anderson, and Ronald Reagan. (Boston Globe)
Even By Trial Lawyer Standards, Edwards A Real Sleazebag Aug 23, 2008
As Edwards knows, our paternity laws were written by Gloria Steinem, so if the mother doesn't want a paternity test, it can't happen. So when Woodruff asked if he was going to actually take the paternity test soon, Edwards quickly noted, "I'm only one side of the test.". (Human Events Online)
Gwyneth Paltrow films ad for Barack Obama Aug 5, 2008
First Gloria Steinem and now Gwyneth. Now I know I'm not voting for BHO.. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Christian Bale Jul 27, 2008
In 2000 his father married Gloria Steinem, the feminist activist, but he died of a brain tumour three years later. Little Women turned Bale into a teenage heart-throb in 1994; suddenly a fan website run by a Canadian admirer spawned an army of Baleheads whose lobbying turned his turkeys into video hits. (Times Online)
Holy handcuffs, Batman's on bail Jul 24, 2008
His mother was a circus dancer and clown; his father, who died in 2003, was an entrepreneur and environmental activist who married the feminist author Gloria Steinem. As well as working with Ledger, the actor- who made his big break in American Psycho in 2000 - has worked with a host of Aussie talent. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Christian Bale Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Mother, Sister; Actor Denies Allegation Jul 23, 2008
Bale is also the stepson of author and feminist leader Gloria Steinem. Her assistant said Tuesday that she's at a writing retreat and was unavailable for comment. (Fox News)
Motherhood Meets Feminism Jul 6, 2008
Shortly after graduating from Barnard in 1992, she founded the Third Wave Foundation, and later she worked as a consultant to Gloria Steinem and Anna Deavere Smith. Now 38, Richards serves on the boards and advisory committees of such blue-chip "womanist" organizations as Ms. magazine, Choice USA, Feminist. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
DOG-EARED PAGES Jul 6, 2008
It's got great graphics and A-list fans, including Anthony Kiedis, Alicia Silverstone, David Duchovny and Gloria Steinem. If epic poems had been about dogs, high school teachers would've had no problem getting students to read them over the summer. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Clay Felker, 82, founder of New York magazine Jul 3, 2008
Felker's editing at New York fostered the careers of such influential writers as Ken Auletta, Jimmy Breslin, Gloria Steinem and Gael Greene. Among New York's most influential features were Wolfe's "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's," on the Black Panthers benefit party thrown by conductor Leonard Bernstein in 1970, and Nik Cohn's "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night," which served as the basis for the film "Saturday Night Fever.". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Clay Felker; New York editor defined the New Journalism Jul 2, 2008
In the early years of New York magazine, Mr. Felker assembled a staff of writers that included Wolfe, Gloria Steinem, Nora Ephron, Richard Reeves, Pete Hamill, Jack Newfield, Aaron Latham, Mimi Sheraton, and Gail Sheehy, who became Mr. Felker's third wife. He exhorted them to write in distinctively personal voices as they explored city's trends, horrors, and delights. (Boston Globe)
Steamy Web sites beckon users to massage services Jul 2, 2008
com, a social group that "brought twentysomething women together at events where they bonded over food, wine, yoga and 'Sex and the City' viewings." A past Post article said she had 'the moxie of a young Gloria Steinem. "In a phone interview Thursday, Ashline described her work as legitimate -- and needed in the Capital Region."If people look at my Web site, they can clearly see I'm not a prostitute," she said, noting she once lived in India. "I don't just go see people off the street. (Albany Times Union)
NEW YORK'S FELKER DEAD Jul 2, 2008
A magazine-editing titan at a time when magazines still mattered, Felker enticed young writers with his famous line, "I'm going to make you a star," and then actually delivered on that promise, birthing the careers of Tom Wolfe, Nicholas Pileggi, Gloria Steinem and others in the pages of New York magazine. In the cruelest of ironies, throat and mouth cancer left the man who gave voice to so many unable to speak during his last days. (New York Post -- Business)
Clay Felker, Magazine Mogul, Dies Jul 2, 2008
Felker's editing at New York fostered the careers of such influential writers as Ken Auletta, Jimmy Breslin, Gloria Steinem and Gael Greene. Felker published, edited and wrote for dozens of publications including Life, TIME, Esquire, the Village Voice, Adweek, Daily News Today, Manhattan Inc. and U.S. News and World Report. (Time.com)
Illegitimate Political Agenda Jun 26, 2008
The usual suspects, Gloria Steinem, Geraldine Ferraro and Patricia Schroeder, were leading the way in making these claims. They were supported, however, by a vocal cadre of women from academia. (Townhall.com)
The only remaining racist. Jun 17, 2008
In full Gloria Steinem meets Fannie Lou Hamer mode, I marched down the road to the construction site where I figured he'd gone. At the site, a gaggle of "Joe College"-type shirtless white boys were goofing off, and a grandfatherly black man halfheartedly directed nonexistent traffic. (Slate)
* Hillary's loss can still be a gain for US women Jun 11, 2008
A New York Times opinion piece by Gloria Steinem that claimed sexism was a bigger problem in America than racism, and a widely circulated article by Robin Morgan suggesting young women voting for Obama were eager to win male approval, set the stage for a battle that left many disenchanted. After all, why was the only appropriate feminist vote one for Clinton. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
We Will Survive Jun 10, 2008
Her sense of "'' won her a fervent following, but by definition, martyrs never win. (Not here on earth, anyway.) Ultimately, it's hard to make the case that you are the more electable candidate when the animating credo of your entire campaign is that walking around with breasts and a uterus is, as Gloria Steinem , "probably the most restricting force in American life. . (Slate)
Get ready for brutal Jun 6, 2008
Pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem, a Hillary supporter, is convinced a woman won t occupy the Oval Office in her lifetime ... To Gloria Steinem and others who state that the media have been so bad and horrible to Senator Clinton because she s a woman, do you think that maybe her loss wasn t due to media bias but concerns about her character ... I m a woman and not a particular fan of Gloria Steinem s, but in this instance she is correct. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Another view: Whos sexist now? Jun 1, 2008
In January, Gloria Steinem wrote a New York Times Op-Ed article complaining that "gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. ... Black men were given the vote a half-century before women ... and generally have ascended to positions of power ... before any women." In other words: Support Clinton, or ally yourself with the forces of sexist oppression. Later that month, ABC News reported: "Women Angry ... Some Say Oprah Is a 'Traitor' for Endorsing Obama and not Clinton." It... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Skeletons In The Closets May 21, 2008
In 1968, feminist and Democrat Gloria Steinem said, after the election of Richard Nixon, Were all ni**gers now for which she still has yet to be called to accounts for uttering. Uber-liberal Senator Joe Biden patronized Obama in the worst possible stereotypical way when he said the African American was bright and clean and articulate Yet Bidens pals in the media yawned. (Townhall.com)
The Messenger May 17, 2008
"I remember when Betty Friedan came in. Gloria Steinem.". On this sunny spring Friday, it's Pandith who's bringing pearls, politics, and power to Smith women. (Boston Globe)
It's the Sexism, Stupid May 17, 2008
Say it ain't so, Gloria Steinem. But Gloria says it is so, and so do some other female pundits. (Townhall.com)
Clinton? Obama? Feminists frustrated May 13, 2008
Indeed, 74-year-old Gloria Steinem, a Clinton supporter and icon of the women's movement, riled some younger, pro-Obama feminists with a New York Times op-ed piece. suggesting that they were in denial about America's persisting "sexual caste system.". (Casa Grande Valley Newspapers, AZ)
'Sex: The revolution': Birds do it, bees do it... May 13, 2008
Throughout the series, the filmmakers focus on both the big names Hefner, Gloria Steinem, Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin and the pioneers whose accomplishments were groundbreaking, even if their names don't ring a bell. Pioneers like Bill Baird, a birth-control activist who was arrested in 1967 for distributing contraceptives to unmarried women in Boston, and whose case was frequently cited in Roe v. Wade. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Feminists divided between Clinton, Obama May 11, 2008
Indeed, 74-year-old Gloria Steinem, a Clinton supporter and icon of the women's movement, riled some younger, pro-Obama feminists with a New York Times op-ed suggesting that they were in denial about America's persisting "sexual caste system.". Ariel Garfinkel, a sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, wrote one of the many counter-arguments in an online column. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Master Class graduates win Oscars and Pulitzer Prize! May 8, 2008
And then take Zak Penn's advice (Behind Enemy Lines, X-Men 2, X-Men 3, The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers): "My advice is...take Robert McKee's class. It was essential to my success." Graduates of McKee's 3-day Master Class include: David Bowie, Ed Burns, Drew Carey, John Cleese, Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Emilio Estevez, William Goldman, Akiva Goldsman, Eddie Izzard, Peter Jackson, Quincy Jones, Lawrence Kazdan, Diane Keaton, Steve Koren, Barry Manilow, Zack Penn, Joan Rivers, Julia Roberts,... (Canada Newswire)
...Hillary Throwing 'The China' At Me Apr 21, 2008
Feminist grand panjandrums like Gloria Steinem have leapt back into the arena, while younger women have seized the feminist banner to proclaim Hillary the messianic Wonder Woman, destined to smash the glass ceiling of the presidency. All women, on pain of excommunication from the feminist claque, must now support Hillary. (The Drudge Report)
Don't forget the F-word Apr 12, 2008
Feminism, founded by Mary Wollstonecraft, advanced by Virginia Woolf, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton, has become nameless again. Perhaps a new generation will rediscover it like the shard of an ancient cooking vessel. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Clinton: The Boys Made Me Tough Apr 9, 2008
Like Gloria Steinem so wisely said in an Op-Ed from the NYT on 01/08/08 why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one. The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe: because sexism is still confused with nature as racism once was; because anything that affects males is seen as more serious than anything that affects only the female half of the human race. (New York Times)
MLK Jr. confidant publishes what King might say 40 years later Apr 4, 2008
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem wrote in January in The New York Times that the gender barrier is not taken as seriously as that of race. Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro said Obama might not be doing as well if he were white or female. (USA Today)
Gloria Steinem In Albany Apr 3, 2008
Gloria Steinem is a supporter of pay equity and the New York State Fair Pay Bill. Right now there is no legal recourse for workers in job titles that are done predominantly by women or people of color as a result are underpaid. (FOX23 News, NY)
21 comments Mar 31, 2008
Since she became one of the earliest members of the NWPC when it was founded in 1971 (its founder ironically, Ms. Magazine s Gloria Steinem, who most recently made headlines by belittling McCain s heroic background as a Vietnam POW), Virginia Republican Kilberg has had a history of making ene 00004000 mies on the right through five Republican Administrations. Moreover, as an unsuccessful candidate for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 1993, Kilberg launched spirited... (Human Events Online)
ROSA BROOKS: Princesses brainwash our daughters Mar 28, 2008
You don't have to be Gloria Steinem to realize that these are not, for the most part, useful professional skills in today's world. So I was not thrilled when my 3-year-old informed me, over lunch, that she wants to be "a pwincess" when she grows up. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
VH1 and Sundance Channel to Air Original Four-Part Documentary Series From Perry Films, 'Sex: The Revolution' Premiering on VH1, Monday, May 12 - Thursday, May 15 at 10pm* Each Night Mar 25, 2008
Among them: musicians Nile Rodgers and David Crosby; actors Cybill Shepherd, Danny Glover and Dyan Cannon; writers Erica Jong, Armistead Maupin, John Rechy and Gay Talese; publishers Hugh Hefner, Helen Gurley Brown, Gloria Steinem and Larry Flynt; filmmakers John Waters and Paul Mazursky; television host Phil Donahue; writer/publisher Paul Krassner (The Realist); birth control activist William Baird; and Marilyn Chambers, star of the landmark porn film Behind the Green Door ... Mainstream... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Threading the Race Needle Mar 19, 2008
For example, on the morning of the New Hampshire primary, the New York Times a remarkably op-ed by Gloria Steinem essentially arguing that Clinton was more deserving of the presidency than Obama because (she argued) in American society, women are bigger victims than blacks. Kathleen Deveny, an assistant manager editor at Newsweek, later this line. (Slate)
The pimps' slaves Mar 18, 2008
That may be the only letter in history signed by both Gary Bauer and Gloria Steinem, by executives of the National Organization for Women and the National Association of Evangelicals. Of the 100,000 prostitution-related arrests each year, the great majority of them are of women and girls; pimps and johns are much less likely to be arrested. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
The world's 10 oldest leaders Mar 16, 2008
They may not realize that McCain is a whippersnapper compared with his seniors Gloria Steinem, Phil Donahue, Willie Brown and Woody Allen. Born in 1936, McCain is in the company of singer Kris Kristofferson, counterculture comedian George Carlin, director Robert Redford, and that "Easy Rider" epitome of youth rebellion, Dennis Hopper. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Black ex-senator sees parallels in Obama's run Mar 16, 2008
Gloria Steinem, not known for her support of GOP candidates, was a fan. Brooke knew John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali and other luminaries of those incendiary times. (The Palm Beach Post)
Bonfire of the Democrats Mar 15, 2008
Clinton's campaign and its supporters can cry sexism when she is sharply questioned in debates and loses the Iowa caucus, but it won't have the same resonance as the charges of racism hurled at them, leaving the likes of Gloria Steinem to rue that "the sex barrier [is] not taken as seriously as the racial one." Even as victims, women are second-class citizens ... Clinton's campaign and its supporters can cry sexism when she is sharply questioned in debates and loses the Iowa caucus, but it won't... (Townhall.com)
Hillary: Stand By Some Other Man Mar 15, 2008
Liberals believe, often accurately, that if they say the same thing over and over again 1 billion times, people will believe it: "Bush lied, kids died," "We've lost in Iraq," "Reagan is stupid," "Bush is stupid," "Republicans are stupid," "Global warming is destroying the planet," "Gloria Steinem is good-looking" and -- their most provably false assertion -- "Bill Clinton is the most talented politician of his generation.". In a period of just a few short months last year, "news" articles in The... (Human Events Online)
Battle lines harden on the gender front Mar 8, 2008
Gloria Steinem launched her now infamous New York Times op-ed piece, published in January, in which she reasserted that gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. If there was a tipping point in the campaign, this was it. (Globe and Mail -- International)
KATHLEEN PARKER: It's a generation -- not gender -- gap Mar 7, 2008
Instead, Hillary Clinton's latest stumper, Gloria Steinem, is a vision from a time that is, as Barack Obama's youthful contingent would say, "so yesterday."Appearing in Austin before the Texas primary, Steinem's words on Clinton's behalf merely served to remind young voters why they prefer Obama. Indeed, the race and gender dimensions of the presidential campaign have been important mostly to an older generation of Americans, including the Clintons, who are slow to recognize that the world they... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
English lesson Mar 6, 2008
Schilling also took a shot at Gloria Steinem for suggesting that the candidate's war record is irrelevant. "It sure as hell gives me insight into [McCain's] character," he said. (Boston Globe)
Steinem's Last Stand Mar 5, 2008
Instead, Hillary Clinton's latest stumper, Gloria Steinem, is a vision from a time that is, as Barack Obama's youthful contingent would say, "so yesterday." ... Instead, Hillary Clinton's latest stumper, Gloria Steinem, is a vision from a time that is, as Barack Obama's youthful contingent would say, "so yesterday.". (Townhall.com)
The Death Cry of Gloria Steinem Mar 5, 2008
Just look at Gloria Steinem ... Like their increasingly whiny candidate Clinton, Gloria Steinem and the fading gyno-saurs just can't accept when it's time to quit ... Just look at Gloria Steinem. (Townhall.com)
NBC Not So Excited Over Slap at POW McCain Mar 5, 2008
Last Tuesday, when before a John McCain campaign rally, Cincinnati radio talk show host Bill Cunningham used Barack Obama's full name and derided Obama as "the great prophet from Chicago," NBC and ABC pounced with full stories on the "controversy." But after over the weekend, where at an event touted as "One Million for Hillary with Gloria Steinem" the left-wing feminist icon ridiculed John McCain's years as a prisoner of war, ABC did not utter a word about the remarks while NBC on Monday gave... (MediaResearch.org)
The double standard Mar 3, 2008
As Gloria Steinem noted in her much-discussed New York Times op-ed piece, what if Obama had been a woman, with the same resume. A female candidate with his resume would have been laughed at if she said she wanted to run for president. (Boston Globe)
• Drift away from Clinton frustrates many women Mar 2, 2008
Gloria Steinem, a Clinton supporter, weighed in with an essay in the New York Times in which she claimed that, in public and private spheres alike, women have a tougher time than African American men. "Gender," wrote Steinem, "is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House. . . . Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot and generally have... (Q13.com, WA)
Clinton, Obama Spar Over National Security With Dueling Ads in Texas, Ohio Mar 2, 2008
This is a wartime election and it matters who we put into the White House,'' Clinton said today at a fundraiser in San Antonio, where she appeared with author and activist Gloria Steinem. In Providence, Rhode Island, Obama parried that Clinton's vote to authorize the Iraq war cast doubt on her judgment. (Bloomberg -- US)
Black man vs. white woman Feb 17, 2008
The voting has been parsed for signs that the candidates are drawing supporters beyond their particular "minority" " demographic. Over the past month and a half, the feminist pioneers Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan have both published widely talked-about essays arguing that Clinton would have long since sewn up the nomination if not for the stubbornness of our national sexism. And when Clinton's primary victory in New Hampshire last month caught everyone by surprise, some analysts suggested... (Boston Globe)
A feminist icon at Wellesley Feb 15, 2008
Gloria Steinem speaking at Wellesley College on Wednesday, Feb. 6 ... Until recently, when reporters asked Gloria Steinem for her thoughts on the presidential race (Was she supporting Clinton. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Clinton, Iron Lady, Needs Another Game Plan Feb 14, 2008
The old guard of feminists, including Gloria Steinem, came to her defense when they saw the men in the race picking on her. Even when non-feminists saw an exhausted and worn-down Hillary get choked up at that Portsmouth diner, they remembered how often they have been underappreciated and overworked. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Gloria Steinem to speak at Tulane Feb 11, 2008
Gloria Steinem, one of the pioneers of the modern feminist movement, will deliver a free lecture March 6 at Tulane University's Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life. Steinem's speech, which will start at 7 p.m. in the Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, is part of the Newcomb College Institute's Powerhouse Speakers Series. (Nola.com -- Sports)
Campus Calendar Feb 6, 2008
TONIGHTG-L-O-R-I-A "Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House," Gloria Steinem wrote in a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times. "This country is way down the list of countries electing women and, according to one study, it polarizes gender roles more than the average democracy." Tonight the Students for Reproductive Rights at Wellesley College host a sold-out lecture by Steinem, the... (Boston Globe)
Is America ready? Feb 5, 2008
For many years, the US swept its societal divides under the carpet, despite Martin Luther King and feminist leaders like Gloria Steinem. Now it has to decide: woman or black. (India Times, India)
New divide: Women split on Clinton, Obama by age Feb 2, 2008
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, co-founder of the Women's Media Center, thinks gender is still the most restricting force in American life. She notes that Obama is a viable candidate for president even though his elective experience prior to joining the Senate consisted of eight years in the Illinois legislature, and doubts that a similarly situated woman would have the same shot. (AZCentral -- News)
School Calendar Jan 30, 2008
Gloria Steinem to speak at Wellesley Feb. 6. For the past few decades, Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. Magazine, has been an outspoken voice on issues of equality and women s rights. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Wonder Woman lassos Alfred roundtable on women in comic books Jan 27, 2008
Many changes occurred to Wonder Woman over the years, Romanchock said, even trading in her tube-top shirt and short shorts for a white pantsuit in the 1970s, a move criticized by feminist Gloria Steinem, the publisher of Ms., who used the return of a strong Wonder Woman as the cover of her first issue. The reason why Wonder Woman continued to endure was her strength, wits and competition from weak and poorly-developed female characters according to Romanchock. (Hornell Evening Tribune, NY)
Campaign 2008 as reality TV Jan 22, 2008
Soon, everyone was calling him out, from Gloria Steinem to the women of "The View." Omarosa never got so roundly attacked on "The Apprentice" - though, unlike Omarosa, Matthews was contrite. The uncertainty. (Boston Globe)
