Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years I have watched "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on a regular basis. Like many Americans, I have been entertained by her interviews with everyone from Michael Jordan to LeAnn Rimes to Meryl Streep. I've watched Oprah make potato salad with Patti Labelle, dance with Tina Turner and Gloria Estefan, and sing with Elton John. And I'll admit that on certain occasions--when a family is finally reunited or when a particularly homely homemaker is given the makeover of her dreams--I have been touched. Maybe even inspired...
...argue against the common-sense view that spending time with worthy male mentors is a good thing. But his eerie near dismissal of mothers gets in the way of his often sensible argument and devolves on occasion into a paranoia about a world dominated by manipulative women. He calls Gloria Steinem a "victim" feminist. Women, he says, do not see "how neglected their emotionally disadvantaged adolescent sons feel" as a result of women's lack of interest "in male biology and thus its forgetfulness of the subtleties of the male soul...
...whether we conform to an outdated vision of what a good feminist is. It is a sign that feminism has not died, but rather has succeeded to an amazing extent, that young female critics don't have to be as single-minded or rigid as Gloria Steinem or Germaine Greer. Today we can express as divergent views and attitudes, with as varied points of view, and opinions and obsessions and styles, as our male counterparts. KATIE ROIPHE New York City
Gone are those days when many groups' titles actually reflected the identities of the various lead singers. Groups with names like Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, Lisa and Cult Jam and D. J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince were all staples of the '80s music arena. And although we never knew who actually made up the Miami Sound Machine, we at least knew a little bit about the band just from the name. In those days, if George Michael was singing, the casual listener generally knew...
Fashion spectacle, paparazzi-jammed galas, mindless sex talk--is this what the road map to greater female empowerment has become? If feminism is, as Gloria Steinem has said for decades, "a revolution and not a public relations movement," why has it come to feel so much like spin...