{"id":1182,"date":"2008-08-07T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2008-08-07T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T15:52:00","slug":"an-airport-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/08\/07\/an-airport-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"An Airport Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministing.com\/archives\/010189.html\">an essay from Kristal<\/a> that I posted over at feminsting. An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They were interested in fashion, and topics such as weight gain, designer<br \/>brands, drinking, and parties.  Oh, and they hated long flights. <\/p>\n<p>Their conversation got me thinking about women and power.  Maybe I was being<br \/>too hard on the girls, but I wondered: with the myriad of options available<br \/>to them in this day and age of possibility, achievement and access, why were<br \/>they missing out?<\/p>\n<p>Why hadn&#8217;t any of the things feminists had been writing and speaking about<br \/>(and living) actually translated into their lives? <\/p>\n<p>Of course there are pea-brained young men out there too.  But there was<br \/>something about these two women that was especially unsettling: perhaps it<br \/>was their profound vulnerability, I thought, in a world that will so quickly<br \/>leave them behind.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it was the fact that they seemed so disinterested in their own<br \/>potential &#8212; their own present, as well as future power.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I was just a 40-something old fogy, witnessing that perfectly<br \/>normal phase that so many young people go through as they struggle to find<br \/>their way into adulthood.  I&#8217;ve been there. Maybe they&#8217;ll pull it together<br \/>eventually, I thought, and find their own unique passions.<\/p>\n<p>And when they do, I hope that feminism will be there &#8212; ready to help make<br \/>the journey beyond fashion and fake eyelashes, into true power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out an essay from Kristal that I posted over at feminsting. An excerpt: They were interested in fashion, and topics such as weight gain, designerbrands, drinking, and parties. Oh, and they hated long flights. Their conversation got me thinking about women and power. Maybe I was beingtoo hard on the girls, but I wondered: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}