Whitewashing Anti-Feminism in the Housing Crisis

"[The Option ARMS home mortgage loan] was first created in 1970. The Emergency Home Finance Act was one answer to the growing social and racial unrest in the nation's cities: home ownership as a means to stop angry Americans from burning down their neighborhoods." ~Richard Bove on NPR Morning Edition (8/28/2008) [emphasis added], carefully overlooking …

Erasing Women from US Politics

"It was right after Michelle Obama's speech, in which the talented, intimidatingly intelligent Mrs. Obama tried to convince the country that she was as mundane as the rest of us, *laughter* and therefore no threat to us." ~Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, NPR, August 30, 2008 (Emphasis added) Last week, NOW's Below The Belt column did …