Word: feminist
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Foreign delegations, many from developing countries, will also march this Sunday. Seem strange? It’s not. Harmful conditions on American foreign aid are killing thousands of women around the world. According to Ellie Smeal, president of the group Feminist Majority which is cosponsoring the march, “We used to say, ‘if we lose (abortion rights) women will die.’ You will not hear that at this march. You will hear, ‘women are dying, are being injured, because it is now driven home how devastating these policies...
...post-feminist generation, these concerns about use of “girl” seem petty and dated. Girls born in the ’80s grew up enjoying the benefits of Title IX; this year, more women than men were admitted to Harvard. In many ways, we take our basic equality with young men for granted. But “girl” is not exactly analogous to “guy”; we do not call the men of our acquaintance “boys.” The infantalizing connotations of “girl?...
...still possible to have a really good fight about the meaning of the Cross. In 1994, for example, when a participant in a national feminist conference paid for in part by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) announced that "I don't think we need a theory of atonement at all; I don't think we need folks hanging on crosses and blood dripping and weird stuff," the backlash to the remark and other controversial aspects of the conference resulted in the resignation of one high Presbyterian official and a cost in contributions that the denomination estimated at $2.5 million...
...elect its first female president, but it did reach an important feminist milestone last week when CANDACE PARKER, who at 17 is not yet eligible to vote, beat out five young men in the slam-dunk portion of a national high school basketball competition. The 6-ft. 3-in. Parker, only the second woman to qualify for the event, plans to attend the University of Tennessee in the fall...
...happens to them 10 or 15 years into the job, when they fail to get promoted. Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say just wait...