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Instead, the media has used her "constantly changing" haircuts to portray her as unstable. In fact, I think if you looked at the media attention over her "changing haircuts" you'd find there's been far more ink and far more broadband space spent on that topic than on the cost of Bill Clinton's, Edward's, Kerry's and every other male politicians haircuts combined.

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I am a 37 year old woman, and I will most definitely be voting for Hillary. And, while I think feminists *can* vote for Obama, I do not think it is a feminist choice, in any way to do so. (A feminist can make a non-feminist choice without it calling into question her feminism, we all do it every day. But to claim that any choice made by a feminist is a feminist choice is ridiculous.)

I was also appalled by the Honorable Betty Roberts offensive and completely incorrect definition of feminism. Her outright dismissal of radical feminism (and radical feminists) was disgustingly offensive, but worse, it was not based in fact. Radical means "to go to the root." Radical feminists attempt to go to the root of sexism and to change things from that way. Radical has nothing to do with marching in the streets (feminists of every stripe -- radical, liberal, socialist, marxist, third wave, and on and on may march in the streets or choose to be activists in other ways), "man hating," or anything else. It was Radical feminists who wrote and enacted laws against sexual harassment, rape, domestic violence (and, in fact, who started the first domestic violence shelters). Radical feminists can be any woman -- straight or lesbian, mother or childfree, married, partnered, or single, a "rabble-rouser" or someone who works more behind the scenes. If you are going to have women on your show talking about feminism, they really should have their facts straight first, and they really should be knowledgeable and understanding of all forms of feminism. This sort of statement is appalling.

And finally, to quote the bumpersticker, "I'll be a post-feminist in the post-patriarchy."

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