Word: womanize
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...every woman has made the heartbreaking choice to leave Mabini. Shyrelyn Esguerra Diaz - "Baby" to her friends - still lives in Little Italy with her 5-year-old son Magnus in a comfortable home with high ceilings and a grassy yard out front. Sitting on the couch next to his mom, Magnus lets out a wheeze of concentration, his chubby thumbs flying on a video game, while Diaz wonders aloud whether she should move to Rome, where she can earn more money and join her husband who already works there. When Magnus first overheard her saying that her work permit...
...biracial woman who is excited about Barack Obama and all of the accomplishments his presidency symbolizes, I can't help but slightly resent just how much focus goes onto his race. I'll teach my children that Obama in the White House was an enormous triumph for acceptance, but I hope that they, like me, will be unable to see why America imposes the racial divides that force us to choose. Jennifer Outler, Cambria Heights, New York...
...gender-politics pandering, but I also hope that the country will give women another chance at the presidency. As this nation moves into a new era with an African-American man in the presidency, let us not remember Sarah Palin as the folksy “woman candidate,” but rather as a maverickly mistake. After all, women are relatively new to presidential campaigns and thus are still looking for the right tone to strike—a way, perhaps, to transcend their gender identity without abandoning it. Palin’s overtly feminine, and ultimately disastrous, attempt...
...While it would be unacceptable for any candidate to demonstrate such ignorance on these matters, as the Republican Party’s first woman ever on a presidential ticket, the stakes for Palin were high. Just as Sen. Barack Obama was held to an elevated standard as the first African-American candidate to approach the presidency, all eyes turned to Palin as she entered the spotlight. The result was disappointing—and quite terrifying...
...sees no point in hiding her ambition. “I throw everyone off their game because I’m open about it,” she said. Andrea was the only upperclassmen I could find who had made her political goals public. She was also the only woman. Hillary or not, transparent political ambition—and campus speculation about it—is still largely limited to men. “Our freshman class on the UC, we were all incredibly intense, but no one was open about it,” Andrea told...