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Did ANYONE who criticized the Ms. Magazine cover say that men couldn?t be feminsts?

By Ann Bartow

Or even that Obama couldn’t be a feminist? I know I didn’t. Nor would I, in a million years. Nor did anyone else, that I am aware of. What the hell are these women talking about?

Ms. Magazine decided it could get some attention by photoshopping Obama as Superman, wearing a “This is what a feminist looks like” tee shirt and putting it on the cover. It worked. Many issues were sold. Many women feel that declaring Obama a feminist might be somewhat premature, especially since he hasn’t called himself one in public or donned a tee shirt like that in actuality (at least as far as I know) but hey, who cares, we are just a bunch of dumb girls anyway, right?

–Ann Bartow

ETA: Is Obama’s inauguration really “Christmas, Channukah and New Year’s rolled into one” as Naomi Wolf says? Must I buy gifts and send cards?

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on January 15, 2009 (boomark / email).