I accidentally caught part of the Today show yesterday and heard Ann Curry praise The Hunger Games because it has a female protagonist. How avant garde. Apparently, Ms. Curry lives under a rock and is unaware that there have been countless female protagonists over the years in films, literature, and pretty much all media. What is with this rah-rah sisterhood, female empowerment thing going on? Ms. Curry is the host(ess) of a national morning news program and probably pulls in a 7-figure salary -- is she implying that she is oppressed somehow because she's a woman? It's 2012 -- can we lay the women's rights thing to rest now?
I would like to point out the obvious by saying that just because we have the same anatomical features, doesn't mean that all women agree about everything -- particularly politics. I am offended by that notion. I am offended that someone would think that I am so shallow as to agree with Nancy Pelosi on something (like healthcare or the government paying for my birth control, for example) because we both have a vagina. It's absurd.
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