{"id":176,"date":"2006-02-06T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/02\/06\/desperate-housewife-rip\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T15:27:09","slug":"desperate-housewife-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/02\/06\/desperate-housewife-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Housewife, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1139'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay to shop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2135515\/?nav=tap3\">Betty Friedan did too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>But on a more serious note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/05\/national\/05friedan.html?ex=1296795600&amp;en=30472e5004a66ea3&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">Ms. Friedan<\/a><br \/>\npassed away over the weekend.&nbsp; While I do not identify with the<br \/>\ncurrent state of the organizations that she founded, NOW and Naral<br \/>\n(oddly, just as some Dems unfoundedly scapegoat the Greens and Nader<br \/>\nfor Gore&#8217;s 2000 loss, I unfoundedly scapegoat the pro-choicers for<br \/>\nhanding over Congress and the Presidency to the fundmentalist far<br \/>\nright), I applaud her life work.&nbsp; Her passing has forced me to<br \/>\nwonder if she ever wrote or spoke about the marketing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0304415\/\">Mona Lisa Smile<\/a>.&nbsp; That movie was supposed to teach my generation about the pre-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393322572\/sr=1-1\/qid=1139253630\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-0825312-3975163?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">Feminine Mystique<\/a><br \/>\ndays, but instead, I think it served as a vehicle for Vogue to feature<br \/>\nthe inpractical, dainty, full-skirt with heels look that was popular a<br \/>\ncouple of years back.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Also, I would be remiss to not mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5180053\">Coretta Scott King<\/a><br \/>\nas well.&nbsp; Her passing, along with the recent passing of Rosa Parks<br \/>\nhighlights the disappearance of the great Civil Rights generation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s okay to shop, Betty Friedan did too. ** But on a more serious note, Ms. Friedan passed away over the weekend.&nbsp; While I do not identify with the current state of the organizations that she founded, NOW and Naral (oddly, just as some Dems unfoundedly scapegoat the Greens and Nader for Gore&#8217;s 2000 loss, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}