Hillary Clinton to receive the "Wonder Woman" award.

Hillary Clinton to Receive 2017 WMC Wonder Woman Award Next Week in NYC https://t.co/4tLAKfl8pk

— Women's Media Center (@womensmediacntr) October 20, 2017

Courtesy of the Washington Examiner:  

Hillary Clinton didn't win the presidency, but she's in line for something almost as interesting -- the crown of "Wonder Woman." 

The Women's Media Center, co-founded by feminist Gloria Steinem, told us that it is giving the latest Democratic presidential candidate its first "Wonder Woman Award" for her "extraordinary accomplishments" and public service. 

"Like Wonder Woman, she seems to have superhuman strength, resilience, and courage," said the group in a reference to the famous comic and TV character. 

"Hillary Clinton's actions have inspired and protected women and men on every continent," said Steinem. "She has battled negative forces and helped to maintain a fragile peace with her negotiating skill on behalf of this country and peace-seekers everywhere. She has handled all this with grace, grit, determination, integrity, humor and fortitude while remaining a steadfast feminist, advocate, activist, sister and tireless leader in the revolution. With this award, the Women's Media Center declares Hillary Clinton our Wonder Woman."

I am not going to lie, though I really appreciate when people recognize Hillary's contributions, I mainly posted this because I know it will drive the wingnuts around the bend.

They simply HATE it when people celebrate Hillary in any way, shape or form.

By the way did you catch Hillary on the Graham Norton Show?

Here she is explaining how she tried to get out of going to Trump's inauguration.

Now see, that is we needed to see more of on the campaign trail.

I think it might have helped.

If the women turn out to vote in November, President Obama wins. It's as simple as that.

Courtesy of Quinnipiac:

An 18 point lead among women puts President Barack Obama ahead of Gov. Mitt Romney 49 - 45 percent among likely voters nationwide, and voters expect 54 - 28 percent that the president will win the debates, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. 

"It is also very difficult to win an election when you are getting shellacked among women, the group that makes up about half the electorate." 

So essentially if women turn up to the polls in large enough numbers we will see the landslide that we all hope for in November. 

And it certainly looks as if the ladies are motivated.

Beyonce, Olivia Wilde, Jennifer Lopez, Eva Langoria, Jane Lynch, Gloria Steinem, hell that is a pretty impressive list of accomplished women to have working to get you elected. And somehow I think that is just the tip of the iceberg.

(H/T to Electablog.)

Women's Rights advocate Gloria Steinem speaks out in support of President Obama and the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare if you prefer.)

During this unconscionable "War on Women" that is currently being waged by the GOP, I can think of few individuals whose voice holds more weight in these matters than that of Gloria Steinem.

She has a been a powerful voice for women since the late sixties, and having her speak out in support of President Obama, while clearly explaining the reasons behind that support, is something that I hope women in this country do not take lightly.

Gloria Steinem on the false feminism of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.

Courtesy of New York Magazine:

Gloria Steinem, a leader of the women's liberation movement of the seventies, was feted at a luncheon on Wednesday in celebration of the HBO documentary about her life, Gloria: In Her Own Words. We were curious what the feminist icon thinks about women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, who are not housewives, yet support traditional values and oppose abortion. "They’re there to oppose the women's movement. That's their job," Steinem said, accusing the two politicians of "selling out" the women's movement. "That’s just the way it is; it's inevitable. Think about Phyllis Schlafly; there have always been women like this." 

 Later, during a speech, Steinem elaborated. "I can testify, the very same things people were telling me 30 or 40 years ago — it's against nature, you can’t do this, my wife is not interested — all these [people] are now saying, well, feminism used to be necessary, but it's not anymore. That is the new form of obstruction. And, of course, it’s accompanied by the other natural thing that happens if you have a big social justice movement: You make jobs for people who sell it out. So we have Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, who are on my list of 'the women only a man could love.'" 

 "But it’s important to remember that though they are in the news, they are not in the majority," Steinem continued. "And though they get elected, there's a huge race and gender differential on who votes for them. And if you were to add the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, they are the people our founders came to this country to escape," she told the lunch crowd. "They’re the same people, right? They're trying to say God looks like me and not like you, and to use that politically to make a religious base. And so it is really a kind of rerun."

As a man observing the Sarah Palin phenomena, and immediately recognizing that she was single-handedly dismantling decades of hard work by the feminist movement, I have been particularly interested in how a person like Gloria Steinem deals with watching her receive so much media attention.

This response is kind of what I would have expected, though to be honest part of me would like her to go all "Jerry Springer" on Palin's ass and rip that fright wig and those fake glasses off her head and then turn to the media and say "How do you like her now America?" (And yes as I was typing that I realized that it was totally a stereotypical anti-feminist thing to write. Doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see it though.)

BTW if you are a Gloria Steinem fan (And if you are a modern woman or man completely comfortable with his masculinity (Like me) how could you not be?) you might be interested in watching her appearance on the Colbert Report last night. It was pretty interesting, not to mention funny.

Gloria Steinem: Sarah Palin is NOT a feminist!

CBS News:

In an interview for @katiecouric, writer and activist Gloria Steinem responded to Sarah Palin calling herself a feminist, saying, "you can't be a feminist who says other women can't" have an abortion.


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I am often amazed that women do not understand how incredibly important it was to women to gain control over their bodies. In the not too distant past American women were considered property that a father could trade to another man for money, or influence, or even to cement a business transaction. The children she raised were her husband's children and if he died she might be forced to marry his brother or somebody else picked by his family. Love never even entered the equation.

Roe vs Wade gave women  legal control over their own bodies, NOT just the right to terminate a pregnancy.

THE RIGHT to choose is just one aspect of a much larger issue of reproductive rights--women's right to control their own bodies and reproductive lives. Although in recent decades the battle has centered around the right to abortion, this includes more than the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy--but also the right to have children in the face of racist sterilization programs that targeted African Americans, Native Americans and disabled people in the U.S. throughout much of the 20th century.

Latinos were often obliged to sign consent forms in English instead of Spanish, and were frequently sterilized without their knowledge. By 1968, one-third of all women in Puerto Rico--still a U.S. colony--were permanently sterilized. Today, racist sterilization programs continue to target Black and Brown women and men in poor countries around the world in the name of "population control."

Reproductive freedom is also about abortion rights for poor women. Even when abortion is illegal, wealthy women have--and have always had--the money and private doctors to obtain abortions, while poor women face the choice of carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term or risking their lives with unsafe, illegal abortions.

"Racist sterilization" and the "rights for poor women" are clearly two issues that Sarah Palin does not relate to. She is currently of the elite and simply will not even attempt to empathize with those who are of a different ethnicity or social class.  It speaks volumes about her abilities as a leader, but also about her true understanding of "feminism".

And the real scandal is that Sarah is also a hypocrite. Doctor's offices DON'T use white out on the patent's bills.  Everybody with a brain knows what really happened.

And I am pretty damn sure THAT choice had nothing to do with protecting the life of the mother. Did it Sarah?