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Indeed she does. The Clintons will be the most scrutinized Washington couple since pandas Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing arrived from China in 1972. Let the new First Lady so much as utter a word of policy out loud and it's back to makeover. This drives the feminist police crazy, but Hillary herself was at pains on Thursday to deny a televised report that she had told the Secret Service she prefers the term Presidential Partner to First Lady...
...less tangible function of the royal family is to act as a sort of projection for people's emotions or aspirations. Diana's contemporaries, especially women, see her as a kind of feminist heroine, a fighter who knows her own worth, what she wants out of life and how to flout traditional protocol to get it. Even Camille Paglia, the American feminist movement's holy terror, got the message and has jumped on the bandwagon. Writing in the New Republic, she argued that "Diana may have become the most powerful image in world popular culture today...
Conservatives still dislike this week's fourth draft because they oppose calls for inclusive language and local women's commissions, which they see as permanent nests for feminist activism. Liberals are far more infuriated, because the bishops' writing panel backed off on allowing female deacons, much less priests; dropped the assertion that inability to relate well to women should bar a man from the priesthood; and even shelved the declaration that sexism...
...fourth draft. "It has been revised and qualified into insignificance," says theologian Rausch with a shrug. On the left, Ruth Fitzpatrick, leader of Women's Ordination Conference, finds it "pitiful that after nine years of work, this shoddy piece of paper is the best they can come up with." Feminist Schneiders argues that "you cannot say, 'Sexism is a sin except when we practice it.' Sexual apartheid is not acceptable, and it's not going to get acceptable by explaining it or claiming that it was God's idea...
...considers a peculiarly Western phenomenon. But a prelate explains that Rome does not want to "blanket everything in the course of everyday life with the charge of sexism." As another Vatican official sees it, sin is concrete, premeditated action, not an ideology: "Americans, under the influence of the feminist community, wanted a broader definition, that merely thinking of women as different from men is sinful." Catholicism, the prelate maintains, "is defining and protecting the value of the feminine -- not the feminist -- in an age when it is under assault." The Vatican feels it has stretched as far as possible...