Harriet Harman: Equalities champion? Women’s liberation lite? Nutty, illogical and clunkily misandrist?
Posted on August 12, 2009
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Just three of the many women’s comments on Harriet Harman’s week in the glare of the media spotlight:
Bullying Harriet Harman for standing up for women demeans us all
Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman was ridiculed last week for promoting feminism. But was what she proposed really so crazy? Ruth Sunderland in the Observer
Women’s liberation lite
Where would the newspapers be in August without Harriet Harman? She is not only standing in for the prime minister in the Labour government that they love to hate but she’s a woman and a feminist. But at the same time, I do have reservations about some of Harman’s comments. This is after all women’s liberation lite, on a par with the ads where women all meet over a bottle of wine to slag off men. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but it’s what’s not said that is so revealing. Lindsey German, Convenor of the Stop the War Coalition
We could teach Harman a thing or two
For today’s young feminists, it is heartbreaking to watch the only female politician with the courage and seniority to stand up for women’s issues in a meaningful fashion make such a hash of the rhetoric. Harman vacillates over the terms of the change she wants, and comes out sounding like the straw-feminist most of us are desperate to dispel: nutty, illogical and clunkily misandrist. Laurie Penny on Comment is Free on the Guardian web site
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