{"id":639,"date":"2008-02-29T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2008-02-29T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T13:03:00","slug":"oppression-olympics-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/02\/29\/oppression-olympics-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppression Olympics Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R8f1I3fMxvI\/AAAAAAAABEA\/pdcndOERLOo\/s1600-h\/1203181779_4766.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R8f1I3fMxvI\/AAAAAAAABEA\/pdcndOERLOo\/s200\/1203181779_4766.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministing.com\">feministing<\/a> notes, the media portrayal of the black man vs. white woman thing is oppression olympics defined.  Note the graphic in this article oh-so-subtley titled <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2008\/02\/17\/black_man_vs_white_woman\/\">&#8220;Black Man Vs. White Woman&#8221;<\/a> appearing recently in The Boston Globe.  Urrgghh.<\/p>\n<p>For a more interesting take on identity politics in this election, check out the brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=solidarity_politics\">Ann Friedman&#8217;s latest<\/a> over at The American Prospect, in which she notes that just because the Democratic candidates are a woman and black man does not mean this is the first election to hinge on candidates&#8217; identities. Identity isn&#8217;t the problem, pretending it doesn&#8217;t matter is.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Court for the heads up.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As feministing notes, the media portrayal of the black man vs. white woman thing is oppression olympics defined. Note the graphic in this article oh-so-subtley titled &#8220;Black Man Vs. White Woman&#8221; appearing recently in The Boston Globe. Urrgghh. For a more interesting take on identity politics in this election, check out the brilliant Ann Friedman&#8217;s [&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":[10745],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-political-campaigns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}