Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sorriest performance, though, was that of Hillary Clinton. Widely regarded as our First Feminist, she spent last week singing Tammy Wynette's tune on all the morning soft-news shows, hoping to convince us that the only problem Bill has is the right-wing conspiracy to destroy him. Someone needs to tell this woman that the first time a wife stands up for an allegedly adulterous husband, everyone thinks she's a saint. The second or third time, though, she begins to look disturbingly complicit...
...innocent, and that Bill was using those late-night visits to tutor Monica Lewinsky on the intricacies of Social Security financing and line-item budgeting. And it may well be, as Kathleen Parker observed in USA Today, that the alleged objects of the President's affections are not exactly feminist role models but "our worst stereotypes incarnate: emotional, back-stabbing, duplicitous, manipulative...
...come to see the Democrats as the no-fun, take-your-medicine, be-nice-to-everyone party--i.e., the girly-man party--after the Carter, Mondale and Dukakis debacles. Of all Clinton's straddles, maybe this was his greatest: to be seen as both family man and rogue, feminist sympathizer and Kennedyesque swordsman, the New Democrat and the Old. It surely must have allayed fears that he was going to let Hillary run everything. As Grover Cleveland, the old goat, is reported to have said when confronted with a sex scandal of his own, "I don't believe the American...
...pleasure of the giver is incidental. The act itself summarizes the relationship, as the tapes reveal it: someone is the supplicant, and it's not the President. Those of us unlucky enough to remember the late 1960s and early 1970s--before Monica Lewinsky was born--recall the radical-feminist critique of sex as purely a matter of power and exploitation. Under some circumstances the critique seems not so radical. It explains why, for example, professors are enjoined from dating their students. Immaturity and infatuation make you vulnerable, even if you yourself aren't aware of it, and decent people...
...kind of feminist who believes the Super Bowl is part of a scheme to deprive American women of their human rights--although the argument does have its merits. I've seen too many gals in the sports bars groaning and shrieking and punching the air right along with the guys. Last summer, in fact, the National Football League declared its ambition to become an equal-opportunity entertainer, meaning that women are now encouraged to advance from serving the Doritos to donning the cheeseheads. What ever happened to make the Super Bowl America's No. 1 secular ritual is bigger than...