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Posted in Feminism on Feb 11th, 2008
Here’s another excellent column by Leonard Pitts, in which he laments the refusal of most people to call themselves “feminist” even when they agree with, and benefit from, the goals of feminism. He compares this phenomenon to a similar one with the word, “liberal,”
“Feminist,” it seems, has ended up in the same syntactical purgatory as […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Politics on Jan 30th, 2008
Leonard Pitts, of the Miami Herald, published a great opinion piece yesterday about the bigoted attacks on Barack Obama. You can read the column, Obama foes make appeal to ignorance, fear on the Miami Herald web site. Note that the column title in the Colorado Springs Gazette was, “What if America had a Muslim President?”