Ms Magazine have put Barak on their cover in a photo shopped pic of him posed as superman opening his shirt to reveal a ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ top below.
How naïve can these people be? Barak is not going to be in any way pro-women at least in the form that I would judge it. He is a male politician endowed with all the privileges that enabled him to claw his way to the top.
I’m willing to accede he is likely to be less bad than his rivals, but no one has the power to turn their country around and make it women-friendly in four short years, or 8 if he gets a second term.
Shades methinks, of the unrealistic expectations many people had in 1997 and all we got were patronising pictures of Blair’s Babes and illegal wars. Ok, we got some excellent equalities legislation, but that is under constant attack and is not balanced out by the loss of civil liberties.
The Huffington Post link has Eleanor Smeal’s explanation:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eleanor-smeal/this-is-what-a-feminist-l_b_157531.html
(As it’s H.P. there are fewer frothing at the mouth commenters than on other sites, but there are still the predictable numpties.)
A sensible analysis here:
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2009/01/ms-magazine-trades-in-wonder-woman-for.html
And a new ranty blog for me to read:
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/