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May 03, 2004
Feminism, middle class het white bias, blah de blah
From A Few Things About the Cheneys by Laura Flanders:
[Lynne Cheney (the wife of the Vice President)] liked to write; she hated to cook. But finding rewarding employment was not so easy. Her first ambition had been to be a movie star; her second, a college professor. "This was before people were enlightened about women and married women in particular," she told Fox News. A prospective employer asked her point-blank: "Are you interested in the job, Dr. Cheney, or are you married?" "That was illegal at the time," she comments. (Employers didn't simply become "enlightened" after all, movements mobilized and Congress passed laws.)
Although women of color and working-class women were in the workforce before the enlightenment and passing of laws and what-not.
All of which has been covered ad nauseum and I'm not faulting Laura Flanders for not mentioning it. Just one of the little things one runs into even among progressives that results in a certain distancing from. . .
This is explicitly political, isn't it?
Never mind.
Excerpted from the New York Times bestseller,' Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species' (Verso Books.) "The Laura Flanders Show" can be heard weekends, 7-10 pm on Air America Radio.
We're without an Air America Radio affiliate here in Chi at the moment. So I listed to WBEZ last night driving home from. . . seeing the movie and hanging out at Moody's for a bit. Heard Karen Grigsby Bates on Wait Wait; I remember some confusion on my part as to if the woman working for NPR was the same Karen Bates who wrote Plain Brown Wrapper. Yep. Attended Wellesley College, according to her bio.
You can always tell a Wellesley girl.
But you can't tell her mu-- geez, tough crowd.
Posted by Aaron at May 3, 2004 05:32 PM
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