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I won't repeat what the (now) seven pages of mostly critique have said. But it seems that Salon is equating women's issues with women, whether they be Rockettes or geishas or various hollywood celebrities. Women's issues don't necessarily have women in the starring roles... C'mon Salon, I know you've taken women's studies 101 (haven't you?).
Why not take a more woman-centered approach to the important news of the day? Why no mention about Rosa Parks today and the important role women played in the civil rights movement? Military death tolls and women's lives? There seem to be hurricanes everywhere...how are they affecting women and how are women coping? A huge new law on bankruptcy and not a peep about the gender issues? Increases in the cost of energy...how are women going to heat their homes and keep them and their children warm this winter? I'm guessing we'll start paying attention after a few tenement fires this winter...
But instead of any of this, we get make-up commentary. We should have both, but the Broadsheet seems visibly absent of anything with heart and soul.
p.s. Do people know that Rebecca Traister talks on VH1 about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? This is the type of person Salon has on the payroll for "women's issues"??????
