Friday, November 7, 2008

More on the Political Fate of "Girl Power," etc.

Judith Warner can really write:

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/title/

I was particularly moved by this paragraph: "Theirs [her daughters'] has often looked to me like a world drained of meaning. Girl power put to the service of selling Hannah Montana. Feel-good inclusiveness that occulted the very real conflicts, crimes and hatreds of history."

Let's hear it for finding greater meaning in the everday, and using it to understand and struggle against the inequalities that surround us.

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