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On “Equity Feminism” and “Gender Feminism” The Distress of the Privileged « The Weekly Sift. This time, though, it doesn’t work.

The Distress of the Privileged « The Weekly Sift

No wife, no kids, no food. Confused, he repeats the invocation, as if he must have said it wrong. After searching the house, he wanders out into the rain and plaintively questions this strangely malfunctioning Universe: “Where’s my dinner?” Privileged distress. I’m not bringing this up just to discuss old movies. 341. Feminism. War on Women, Waged in Postcards: Memes From the Suffragist Era. “Do hormones drive women’s votes?”

War on Women, Waged in Postcards: Memes From the Suffragist Era

That headline is not from a newspaper published in 1892 or 1922, but from CNN online in 2012. Posted just last week, the story survived all of seven hours, weathering ridicule from the blogosphere, before the news hub “determined that some elements of the story did not meet the editorial standards of CNN.” “Should women with school-age children work? Should men co-parent?