Comments on: This Is What a Feminist Looks Like? http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2009/01/15/this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like/ Girl w/ Pen, founded by Deborah Siegel, publicly and passionately dispels modern myths concerning gender, encouraging other feminist scholars, writers, and thinkers to do the same. Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:32:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: Paul Raeburn http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2009/01/15/this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like/#comment-696 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:59:44 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1454#comment-696 Deb,

Once again, I stole one of your ideas. Put this pic up on Fathers and Families and headlined it “The Father of the Future?”

Should be exciting to watch this play out…

]]> By: Aviva http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2009/01/15/this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like/#comment-695 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:51:44 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1454#comment-695 I think it’s great if Obama identifies as a feminist, but I agree with Yondalla that the imagery is problematic. It really does smack of the “man whose here to rescue feminism” and I’m not a fan of that choice.

BTW, I just posted a link round-up of posts about the cover, if you’re interested in reading some of the reasons why people have a problem with the cover.

]]> By: Yondalla http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2009/01/15/this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like/#comment-694 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:17:30 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1454#comment-694 BTW, I don’t find the image offensive. Just if the question is “is this what a feminist looks like?” my answer is “nope. Not even close.”

]]> By: Yondalla http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2009/01/15/this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like/#comment-693 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:16:15 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1454#comment-693 I haven’t read anything about it, but I wish they hadn’t used this image. This is not about Obama, who may be a feminist or pro-feminist if you prefer.

The image though is very evokative of SuperMan who is not a feminist. SuperMan rescues other people, most especially Lois.

A man who is a feminist would not be someone who would rescue us. It would be someone who walks beside us.

Then of course there is the whole ripping off his clothes thing. If that is not meant to evoke SuperMan then it is meant to evoke something much more disturbing which does not belong on the cover.

Either way, whether Obama is a feminist or not, that image is not a what a feminist looks like.

]]> By: Kristen http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2009/01/15/this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like/#comment-692 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:59:05 +0000 http://girlwpen.com/?p=1454#comment-692 D,

I am of course fully with you on this– it IS time that we recognize that men can be feminists too and while we don’t know yet what Obama will do in his administration, he repeatedly spoke about reproductive rights, equal pay, etc. throughout his campaign. Of course, it is up to all those other feminists out there to keep pressuring him to follow up on his promises. Putting him on the cover of Ms. is one way to do so– it ups the heat AND the expectations.

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