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Beauty and the Beast: The Ugly Attacks on Activist Women

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Why, Judd asked, was a puffy face cause for such a conversation in the first place?   "Why did people participate? What is the condemnation about? The insanity has to stop, because as focused on [the actress] as it appears to have been, it is about all girls and women."   

 

To be even clearer, I would add that it is about girls and women who have found their voices, at last, and now use them to speak out against the injustices and the violations of human rights now being thrust upon our gender.  

 

It may not seem pretty when we do that, but as far as I can tell, the only thing puffed up about it is those male egos striving mightily not to suffer what might be revealed of their character when they are required to confront a mirror themselves.

 

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Elayne Clift is a writer,lecturer, workshop leader and activist. She is senior correspondent for Women's Feature Service, columnist for the Keene (NH) Sentinel and Brattleboro (VT) Commons and a contributor to various publications internationally. (more...)
 
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