Sawyer: So, have you thought—how many women is enough?
[pause]
O’Connor: What? [laughter]
Ginsberg: How many women—?
Sawyer: How many women would be enough?
Ginsberg: Nine.
[laughter and cheers and applause]
O’Connor: We’re not there yet. [Sawyer laughs]
Ginsburg: Well, there’ve been nine men there for a long, long time, right? So why not nine women?
[cheers and applause]
I agree with Towleroad: Will somebody please tell all the pathetic teabaggers that THIS is real patriotism???
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100 Grand Bore « Margaret and HelenAs I see it dear, if more than a hundred thousand dead civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan can be dismissed, so can slightly less than a hundred thousand peckerwoods at a Beck rally.
If the civil rights of millions of gay and lesbian Americans are not important, then neither are the pathetic rants of almost a hundred thousand Palin addicts.
If millions of children without healthcare are inconsequential then why should I give a rat’s ass about a hundred thousand shitheads who actually think Beck and Palin have something worthwhile to say?
As long as millions of American Muslims don’t have religious freedom, a hundred thousand Tea Party yahoos shouldn’t be allowed to have cable television. It only seems fair…
Amazing read, and probably one of the best uses of the web ever witnessed.
Carefree 80’s glam meets stringy-haired Satanism with delightful results.
Kate Harding, awesomely deconstructing stupid beauty memes.Two minutes of Googling phrases like “favorite female role models” yielded answers including: Oprah, Nancy Pelosi, Tina Fey, Waris Dirie, Shirley MacLaine, Dame Judi Dench, Queen Elizabeth, President of Argentina Cristina Kirchner, and J.K. Rowling and Ellen DeGeneres, twice each.
But if men aspire to sleep with 22-year-old women who can pass for teenagers, and women aspire to be 51-year-old lesbian talk show hosts, we’re at an impasse. So it’s much simpler if we just tell women what they chiefly want to be is attractive to straight men, over and over, until they internalize it.
