{"id":687,"date":"2008-03-17T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2008-03-17T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T14:02:00","slug":"is-spitzergate-a-new-anita-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/03\/17\/is-spitzergate-a-new-anita-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Spitzergate a New &#8220;Anita Hill&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R958FbMqKHI\/AAAAAAAABIw\/c8-jzHd1iGo\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R958FbMqKHI\/AAAAAAAABIw\/c8-jzHd1iGo\/s200\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I found it interesting that in this weekend&#8217;s NYTimes article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/16\/weekinreview\/16zern.html?ex=1363320000&amp;en=ef31846fb6aabd20&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">&#8220;Postfeminism and Other Fairy Tales&#8221;<\/a>, Deborah Tannen compares the Spitzergate moment with Anita Hill, and twentysomething Slate blogger Noreen Malone says that for her,  an Obama supporter, the Spitzer moment trumped the tearful moment in bringing her to a slightly different point of view.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oddly enough it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s taken Spitzergate \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not Hillary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tears, not her scolding \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to make me less dismissive of the feminist \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcobligation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to vote for a woman,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Malone.<\/p>\n<p>So much going on in these comparisons, and if I weren&#8217;t bleary eyed (or, as Courtney puts it, &#8220;feeling like a crackhead&#8221;) from the past 24 hours of planes, trains, and automobiles, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d have something more to say about it all.  Perhaps GWP readers can help me out.  What do you think of the comparison between Anita Hill and Spitzergate as rallying moments for feminism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found it interesting that in this weekend&#8217;s NYTimes article &#8220;Postfeminism and Other Fairy Tales&#8221;, Deborah Tannen compares the Spitzergate moment with Anita Hill, and twentysomething Slate blogger Noreen Malone says that for her, an Obama supporter, the Spitzer moment trumped the tearful moment in bringing her to a slightly different point of view. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oddly [&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-687","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\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}