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Dee Dee Myers: Pretty complicated in pink

SIRI AGRELL

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 2:25 AM EDT 12/05/08

She's got cred as the first female press secretary to a U.S. president. But why is she preaching empowerment in a pink room? ...Read the full article

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  1. Gogh Forit from Canada writes: An intelligent woman who wishes that she had been born a man.
  2. Robert Boyd from Windsor, Canada writes: Gender (and racial) quotas are violently objected to in the US, because people instinctively know that no politician can ever be trusted with the power to fill the quota..Look at our situation where the same faces rotate through CBC, CRTC, Royal Commissions and public boards - now think of the chickainery involved when sex, sexual orientation, race, etc are added to the mix, where's your peoples democracy now - the parties are a law unto themselves - they don't answer to the voter, they pander to the fashionable media.
  3. Neon Cab from Canada writes: If 'asking women to act like men is exactly the wrong solution', why can my female manager get away with asking me to act like the women in my office and holding me accountable if I don't? I don't like small talk but that doesn't mean I'm not a team player.
  4. Mr. Justice from Canada writes: Lordy ! She certainly has a way of waffling her words. And one cliche move on to another, one Straw Man Argument moves on to another, etc.

    . . . I wonder where she developed THAT skill. How very 'empowering'.
    Reminds me of a terrific article:

    http://www.theonion.com/content/news/womennowempoweredbyeverything
  5. Albin Forone from Canada writes: I agree with Margaret Jane Myers (a.k.a. 'Dee Dee') that there is a political calculus in choosing a pretty Presidential Press Secretary, most recently evidenced in the selections of media fashion models Tony and Dana by the obsolescent Bush administration, salaries undisclosed. Not so sure Dee Dee gets to complain after voluntarily adopting and promoting her repetitive diminutive moniker in preference to the more pedestrian obvious 'Maggie Myers' - I do suspect she wasn't underpaid for what she actually did.
  6. CD W from Canada writes: I was in love with Dee Dee in the early '90's, and she got run out of town by Hillary. That simple, so I am not surprised she is witholding her backing, besides, she is now the same age as Barak, and she might have some mojo to add to his candidacy in the back rooms. Dee Dee is a real peach, to have only worked for the worst man as a boss , in recent memory.
  7. L T from Canada writes: It's not the pink that bothers me, it's the constant use of this porn-sourced word 'empower'.

    Do people who use it understand that it means "to give" power?

    Do people who use the word empower, and empowered, get that this word originates with pornography and other sex trade abuse where women have no power at all, but are constantly told by sex trade pimps that being degraded and abused will "empower" them?
  8. Rollo Tomasi from Triumph, Belgium writes: Gogh Forit from Canada writes: An intelligent woman who wishes that she had been born a man.
    000000000000

    I doubt it. She felt like she should be paid like a man.

    Oxford English Dictionary: empower • verb 1 give authority or power to; authorize. 2 give strength and confidence to.

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