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How to Spot a Feminist
Hunting Down a Misogynist Clutching their dusty, out of print copy of “The Misogynist Field Guide to North American Feminists,” many took to twitter at the urging of a conservative radio host, using...
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A Sweet Mothers Day
My sweet Grandmother had a sweet tooth. Whether Bartons, Barricini, or Lofts, chocolate was the common currency of celebration. But Mothers Day meant only one thing- a Whitman’s Sampler. Through the...
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Bidding Betty Goodbye- The Happy Homemaker R.I.P.
Bye Bye Birdie – Mad Men’s Betty Draper Like another Sally Beth, I too had to eventually bid my own Betty goodbye. Though thankfully my own mother would live decades longer than Mad Men’s poor Betty...
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I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke
The debate about Mad Men’s ending may continue for years, but no one can debate the fact that Coca Cola has succeeded in getting the world to buy a Coke. With the final image of Don Draper meditating...
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Boy Scout Leaders Morally Straight and… Gay
Glancing through a Boy Scout handbook, you notice how filled it is with skills you must learn and rules you must follow. before 2013, the rules for joining the Boy Scouts hadn’t changed much from...
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Memorial Day BBQ
The Smell of Democracy in the Air Making their season debut, white shoes and Weber grills come out of hibernation as Memorial Day kicks off the beginning of summer. What better way to remember those...
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Metrecal For Lunch Bunch
This once enviably svelte housewife now found herself among the masses of women who realized they needed to whittle their waists. For decades, Memorial Day has long been a solemn occasion. Besides...
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All in the Bush Family Values
Did Dan Quayle’s infamous 1992 attack on unwed mother Murphy Brown – ominously warning it would lead to the destruction of family values – inspire Jeb Bush’s 1995 publication Of Profiles in Character...
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Teaching Racism
c A Texas elementary teacher gives new meaning to Throwback Thursday. Now that Karen Fitzgibbons has been fired, I’m sure the “I’m-not-a-racist” Texas 4th grade teacher who proposed segregation on a...
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A Stain on America….Again
Denise McNair, 11; Carole Robertson, 14; Addie Mae Collins, 14; and Cynthia Wesley, 14; from left, are shown in these 1963 photos. A white supremacist Thomas Blanton Jr., 62, was convicted of murder...
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Confederate Flag’s Stained Heritage of Hate
To those who lived under Jim Crow laws there was no doubting the message or symbolism of the flag. For those who still insist that the Confederate flag is a mere symbol of southern heritage and not one...
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Gay Rights…You Still Gotta Work It!
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s milestone decision on same-sex marriage, the American Dream just became more inclusive, but the dreaming is not over yet. When it comes to job security and a home of your...
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Love Wins – Too Late For Some
A melancholy toast to the generations of gays and lesbians who were denied basic civil rights and remained locked in the American Dream closet After the landmark Supreme Court ruling making gay...
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I Love a July Fourth Parade
July 4th was a candy coated Kodachrome explosion of Kool Aid colored patriotism With the acrid smell of firecrackers lingering in the hot summer air, mid-century memories of July 4th parades past...
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Rosie the Riveter Rocks a Swimsuit
Rosie the Riveter enjoys a rare day off to enjoy the beach in her Jantzen swim suit. Vintage ad 1943 1944 was a different kind of summer. It was a sweltering July and along with most war-weary...
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The Year of the Woman
Collage by Sally Edelstein for Huffington Post Shirley Chisholm, Flo Kennedy, Bella Abzug, oh my! An amazing documentary that had been lost in time….until now. A documentary that disappeared more...
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Transfixed
In 1976 while Caitlyn Jenner then known as Bruce Jenner catapulted to fame as America’s all American hero, a remarkable photo book was published showcasing the transgender community in Sydney,...
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This Is Your Life- The Atomic Age
Conceived as I was in the warm afterglow of the Hydrogen bomb it was also in the dark shadow cast by Godzilla that radioactive mutated monster of mass destruction. Together they would send a collective...
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This is Your Life- The Atomic Age PtII
In that great American tradition of forgive and forget, in May of 1955, only 10 years after we dropped the Atom Bomb on Japan, television audiences watching the popular TV program “This is Your Life”...
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Who’s Afraid of Feminism – Art Show Opening
Collage by Sally Edelstein “How Old is Old?” 36″ x 51″ on view at the AIR Gallery, Dumbo, NY I am so pleased my collage How Old Is Old is included in an...
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