{"id":896,"date":"2008-06-06T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2008-06-06T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T20:15:00","slug":"16-months-of-sustained-misogyny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/06\/06\/16-months-of-sustained-misogyny\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Months of Sustained Misogyny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SEmO-xv-35I\/AAAAAAAABig\/2OmJOJ_fG8Q\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SEmO-xv-35I\/AAAAAAAABig\/2OmJOJ_fG8Q\/s200\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A must-read today from Judith Warner in today&#8217;s NYTimes (<a href=\"http:\/\/warner.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/05\/woman-in-charge-women-who-charge\/\">&#8220;Women in Charge, Women Who Charge&#8221;)<\/a> in which she argues that in a nation indifferent to the sexist attacks on Hillary Clinton over the past 16 months, no wonder a film like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sex and the City\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a hit.  Writes Warner:<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How antithetical Hillary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earnest, electric blue pants-suited whole being is to the frothy cheer of that film, which has women now turning out in droves, a song in their hearts, unified in popcorn-clutching sisterhood to a degree I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen since the ugly, angry days of Anita Hill and \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the first incarnation of Hillary Clinton. How times have changed. How yucky, how baby boomerish, how frowningly pre-Botox were the early 1990s. How brilliantly does \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sex\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c however atrocious it may be \u00e2\u20ac\u201c surf our current zeitgeist, sugar-coating it all in Blahniks and Westwood, and yummy men and yummier real estate, and squeakingly desperate girl cheer&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>Read the full piece<a href=\"http:\/\/warner.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/05\/woman-in-charge-women-who-charge\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM: As per urbanartiste&#8217;s comment, I have yet to see the movie yet and I do expect I&#8217;ll enjoy it, having been an SATC addict, nevertheless!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A must-read today from Judith Warner in today&#8217;s NYTimes (&#8220;Women in Charge, Women Who Charge&#8221;) in which she argues that in a nation indifferent to the sexist attacks on Hillary Clinton over the past 16 months, no wonder a film like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sex and the City\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a hit. Writes Warner: How antithetical Hillary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earnest, electric [&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":[21626,21929],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movie-reviews","tag-womens-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}