{"id":3062,"date":"2009-10-25T04:11:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T12:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2009-10-25T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T01:43:12","slug":"full-court-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/full-court-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-court press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/25\/us\/politics\/25vibe.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1256472008-923JIfcrh\/hs\/HWFcD7mjg\">asks <\/a>whether Obama\u2019s White House is too male-dominated.\u00a0 It took the <em>Times<\/em> weeks to acknowledge the Acorn and Vann Jones stories, but a little delusional grousing about all-male (as opposed to?) basketball games immediately catapults the feminist complaint\u00a0 to front-page status.\u00a0 As delightful as it is to see the furies of identity politics howling after a liberal Democratic administration, one that has always encouraged identity solipsism, it is equally scary to contemplate the possibility that the Obama administration may be even more\u00a0responsive to feminist hen-pecking than spineless Republicans.\u00a0 To be sure, Obama\u2019s rejection of the basketball\u00a0 criticism was refreshingly vigorous:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Obama, in an interview with NBC on Wednesday, called the beef over basketball \u201cbunk.\u201d . . . \u201cI don\u2019t think it sends any kind of message or signal whatsoever.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But he could have also rebuffed the charge of male-dominated policy-making on the substantive ground that his political initiatives &#8211;expansion of government social service and education unions under the guise of economic stimulus, explosion of welfare state initiatives, suspicion of private sector autonomy\u2014is as feminized an agenda as any Womanist Studies gynocrat could hope for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times asks whether Obama\u2019s White House is too male-dominated.\u00a0 It took the Times weeks to acknowledge the Acorn and Vann Jones stories, but a little delusional grousing about all-male (as opposed to?) basketball games immediately catapults the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/full-court-press\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}