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		<title>The Morning After: Heteronormativity Off Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Hess</dc:creator>
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* Wow! Creepiest ending to a Craigslist personals ad in recent memory: "There is a unique kind of yoga I've been doing...when I'm not at the gym"
* Womenstake's Melanie Ross Levin describes the scene at the signing of the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. "Surrounded by a “who’s who” from the women’s movement, I couldn’t help [...]]]></description>
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<p>* Wow! Creepiest ending to a <a href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/m4w/1013399788.html">Craigslist personals ad</a> in recent memory: "There is a unique kind of yoga I've been doing...when I'm not at the gym"</p>
<p>* Womenstake's<strong> Melanie Ross Levin</strong> <a href="http://www.womenstake.org/2009/01/from-one-community-organizer-to-another.html">describes the scene</a> at the signing of the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. "Surrounded by a “who’s who” from the women’s movement, I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by the significance of this occasion," she writes. "As a newbie to the White House signing ceremony world, I ran around the room trying to capture the moment by taking as many photos and talking to as many people as possible." Ha ha, n00b!</p>
<p>* <strong>Gender Goggles</strong> reviews "Violet," an "<a href="http://gendergoggles.com/2009/01/28/violet-a-video-game-in-which-you-can-be-a-lesbian">interactive fiction game</a> in which you are a graduate student attempting to finish your dissertation"&#8212;and in which you can make your protagonist a lesbian by choosing the "heteronormativity off" option.</p>
<p>*<strong> Lisa Schiffren </strong>of the National Review is unsurprisingly nonsensical, this time about the<a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWUyYTc5MjhlZGFlMTI1M2U5ZTI5ODFkZTEyOTJjZTI="> Obamas hiring a new White House chef</a>, like every other Presidential family has done from the beginning of time ever. She writes: "But today, news comes that the Obamas will not run a national <em>Top Chef</em> competition—<em>because they are bringing their own, private chef<a title="Obamas bringing own private chef to White House" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29Cook.html?_r=2&amp;hp"> </a>from Chicago to the White House.</em> Well, isn't that nice?"</p>
<p>Short answer: It is not nice, it is terrible in every way except that it now allows Schiffren to smugly dangle in front of us all this incontroversial evidence of what <strong>Michelle Obama </strong>has been all along&#8212;an elitist servant-driver and a shitty mom. "I believed all that stuff about how Michelle was an overburdened modern working mother, rushing from school dropoff to her high-paying, demanding work at the hospital, to dress fittings, to whatever it was she needed to do to support her husband's political aspirations, back home to take care of her daughters," writes Schiffren. "Call me naive, but that model usually includes making dinner." It gets better&#8212;later, Schiffren evokes <strong>Sarah Palin</strong>!</p>
<p><em>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/migrainechick/2189803492/"><strong>migraine chick</strong></a></em></p>
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		<title>The Morning After: &#8220;Decadent&#8221; Gay Lifestyle Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/01/16/the-morning-after-decadent-gay-lifestyle-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Hess</dc:creator>
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* FOX News is concerned that the inauguration will just be one big, gay party. In a sea of boring inaugural coverage, it's S.E. Cupp for the win! Drink this in, sinners:
But the gay-themed events have some conservative critics expressing concerns that while the celebration may be gay-friendly, it won't be family-friendly.

Jennifer  Giroux, founder [...]]]></description>
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<p>* <em>FOX News</em> is concerned that the inauguration will just be<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/14/gay-america-prepares-party-obama-inauguration/"> one big, gay party</a>. In a sea of boring inaugural coverage, it's <strong>S.E. Cupp</strong> for the win! Drink this in, sinners:</p>
<blockquote><p>But the gay-themed events have some conservative critics expressing concerns that while the celebration may be gay-friendly, it won't be family-friendly.</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><strong>Jennifer  Giroux</strong>, founder and president of Women Influencing the Nation, a group that focuses on restoring traditional family values, said, “I think (the) inauguration should be kept away from that. Christians may love the individual, but they are offended by the gay lifestyle. It’s unhealthy—spiritually, emotionally and physically.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>"It’s not a day where a group that feels       like it has some payback coming should be putting its decadent lifestyle on display.”</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong>, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, an organization that describes itself as "devoted exclusively to exposing and countering the homosexual activist agenda," is worried less about what happens in public and more about what may go on behind closed doors.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“I think most Americans would be put off if they knew what went on at these parties," LaBarbera said. "Every special interest group has a ball of some sort, but this is not just any special interest group. More than half the country considers their behavior immoral.”</p></blockquote>
<p>* Join <a href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/01/15/new-adams-morgan-bar-loves-the-ladies-dudes-not-so-much/#comment-1927">the conversation on new Adams Morgan joint the Town Tavern's</a> strict (and gendered) door policies.</p>
<p>*<em> CP </em>film critic <strong>Tricia Olszewski</strong> (who is totally not making good on her promise to never again speak <em>Twilight</em>'s name) reveals that the<a href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2008/11/25/in-defense-of-abstinence-only-vampirism/"> tween vampire flick</a> (and my personal favorite) <a href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/01/16/march-21-2009-twilighters-holiday/">will be released March 21</a>.</p>
<p>* <strong>Womenstake</strong> details the importance of the Senate's decision yesterday to <a href="http://www.womenstake.org/2009/01/senate-vote-critical-in-fight-for-pay-equity.html">bring the  Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to a vote</a>.</p>
<p><em>Photo by<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trialsanderrors/2859090545/in/set-72157605978562992/"><strong>trialsanderrors</strong></a>.</em></p>
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