Hells yeah!  It’s high time we include worthy men in the visual iconography of feminism.  The question of whether Pres-Elect Obama is such a man remains, fully, to be seen.  But I’m banking that he is.  And if he’s not, then I’m banking on Michelle and Hillary–and all the rest of us–to keep him in line.  More than any president in our past, this man has got serious feminist potential.

But apparently, the cover of the special inaugural issue of Ms. magazine is generating a whole lot of buzz. In a HuffPo piece yesterday, publisher Eleanor Smeal stands by the magazine’s choice, noting:

“It’s not every day Ms. puts a man on its cover. In choosing the cover for this special Inaugural issue, Ms. wanted to capture both the national and feminist mood of high expectations and hope as the 44th President of the United States takes the oath of office.”

She adds,

“But we are not giving President-Elect Obama a blank check. For our hopes to be achieved, we must speak out and organize, organize, organize to enable our new president’s team to achieve our common goals. Ultimately, we must hold our leaders’ feet to the fire or, to put it more positively, uplift them when they are caught in the crosscurrents of competing interests.”

Personally, I think the cover is FAB.  I haven’t yet read the commentary by those who find it–what, offensive, I guess?  Have you?  Is this a generational thing?  A Hillary thing?  And regardless, I’d love to hear your thoughts!