{"id":683,"date":"2008-03-13T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2008-03-13T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T15:30:00","slug":"election-watch-were-getting-punchy-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/03\/13\/election-watch-were-getting-punchy-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Watch: We’re Getting Punchy Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In this week’s Newsweek<\/a> cover package (“Hear Her Roar: Gender, Class, and Hillary Clinton), Tina Brown reports on the euphoria at the Columbus Anthanaeum when the primary results for Ohio started coming in: “They were raising the roof along with the band to the old 1965 McCoys hit ‘Hang on Sloopy.'” A number of other women writers weigh in with their observations, punditry, and advice. Two zingers that struck me as funny:<\/p>\n

Kathleen Deveny on being fed up with ambient sexism and friends who refer to Hillary as a scold: “[F]orgive me if I’m feeling a little shrewish myself these days. From now on, if you want to call the first woman to win a Democratic primary a bitch in front of me, you’d better be Tina Fey.”<\/p>\n

Advice from Monica Crowley, a McCain supporter: “Clinton should…reach out to Obama’s core constituencies–black voters, the young, higher earners, and those with college degrees. Her message: ‘I forgive your fliration with the Hope Guy, but now it’s time to come home to Mommy.'”<\/p>\n

Interesting little sidenote: the “My Turn” essay in this particular issue is by male ballet dancer”Sascha Radetsky and is called alled “Don’t Judge Me By My Tights.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week’s Newsweek cover package (“Hear Her Roar: Gender, Class, and Hillary Clinton), Tina Brown reports on the euphoria at the Columbus Anthanaeum when the primary results for Ohio started coming in: “They were raising the roof along with the band to the old 1965 McCoys hit ‘Hang on Sloopy.’” A number of other […]<\/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":[21929],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-womens-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}