Women and Gender Focus Archives - Page 12 of 12

Notes Photo December 16, 2008

Dana’s Shine(r), And More

Shoe attack victim, and still attractive White House Press Secretary Dana Perino is recipient of extra-special close up coverage.

Notes Photo September 30, 2008

Realize how the presumptuous Sarah was just taking a break from the teleprompter for an instant, and that, otherwise, her appearance in Golden, Colorado was mostly a Mad Ave.-style agglomeration of sex appeal, maternal idealization, ideological harangue and firing range adreline surge.

Notes Photo September 17, 2008

Your Turn: Pink, Red, Blue, Red, Mustard, More Red, Click

For example, there's this morning's rather schematic AP story about Hillary avoiding Palin, Hillary's And then, playing off the image a little more literally, there's a Wall Street Journal slide show titled: Buying Palin's Shoes, about how "her personal style has sparked a buying frenzy."... Class has definitely been...

Notes Photo September 14, 2008

SNL (With The Sound Off)

Visually, the most instructive element of last night's sketch was "Tina Palin's" literal embrace of "Amy Clinton."

Notes Photo June 12, 2008

Focusing In On Sexism

First of all, I couldn't be more pleased that a conversation about sexism seems to be forming now that Hillary has withdrawn. At The BAG, both racial and sexual stereotyping has been a primary political focus, especially in the Hillary - Obama contest.

Notes Photo June 7, 2008

Your Turn: Hillary To Womankind

My problem is, the Clinton withdrawal has inspired so many interesting pictures, and the story -- from the standpoint of Hillary and Hillary's character, feminism, sexism, sexism vs. racism, the Clinton legacy, etc., etc. -- is so complex that I found I couldn't land in any one place.... What...

Notes Photo March 16, 2008

Taking It To Condi

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testifies about the International Affairs Budget in front of the House State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington March 12, 2008. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified before the House Appropriation Subcommittee on Foreign Operations as antiwar...

Notes Photo March 13, 2008

Old Ferraro CW: Glass Ceiling Hero. New CW: Trouble From The Beginning

What comes through, in retrospect, is how personally combative Ferraro was and is.