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...website's home page reads, "Redefining the World of Golf Entertainment." At first glance, it's easy to wonder if the site is advertising some kind of golf-escort service. Are marketing ploys like Play Golf Designs setting women's sports back a decade or two? "When women athletes are treated as sex objects, it runs contrary to the spirit of equality that laws like Title IX are intended to promote," says Jocelyn Samuels, vice president for education and employment at the National Women's Law Center. (See the top 10 female sports heroes...
...goes back to something you said on Tuesday night at the poetry jam. You said it's one thing for people to be speaking in their own spaces. It means something different ... I'm paraphrasing ... but it means something different for them to be speaking in this space. I wonder if you could elaborate on it. What is the meaning of being able to bring these new different voices? I kind of think back to my childhood, and I tell this story a lot. I mean, I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and literally a 10-minute...
Well, you know, that makes me wonder, because you've said so many times, especially to groups of kids, "I'm not supposed to be here." It makes me wonder whether in the last couple of months, maybe you've thought, Maybe I am supposed to be here. [Laughter.] You know, I don't know if I have thought that deeply about it, but I think that now that I'm here, there's a whole lot that hopefully I can bring to being here, because of, you know, the differences in the way that I've grown...
...have another question, but I wonder if what you - if you see what you're doing as something new. I mean, a new kind of role model here. I mean, if it ... you said that when you were younger, there weren't ... I'm trying to think of who would have been playing the role you're playing now when you were a child. Were there people? Did you imagine in public life there were people like you then? Or do you see what you're doing now as sort of a new thing...
...Technicolor dresses and famously buff bare arms, it's hard not to wonder if Michelle isn't daring us all to just roll with it, to be a little bolder at a time when the country could use all the courage it can muster. "You've got to make choices that make sense for you," she says, "because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently." When prodded, she admits with a wry smile that there are moments when she misses her old, anonymous knock-around days. "It's a lot easier...