Michelle Obama Watch

We have another in a growing list of laments that somehow the fact that Michelle Obama will not be working for someone else and will be free to fill her time with the activities of her choosing is somehow a great tragedy and a setback for women. This time its Rebecca Traister in The National Post in an article called "Not Such a Long Way Baby" Americans may be ready for a black president, but not, apparently, for a career-minded First Lady averse ... Read More

by Rhonda (h/t pop+politics) Over at Salon a couple of weeks ago, writer Erin Aubrey Kaplan, responding to all the "makeover" talk wrote an essay exploring the complexities and contradictions that have arisen in the mainstream conversation about Michelle Obama. Among the points she makes, she notes that while she anticipated the attacks on Barack Obama, she should have known Michelle was quickly coming into focus as a target: It was established early that while Barack was striving for the middle ground, trying to strike a ... Read More