{"id":176117,"date":"2014-12-21T05:12:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T05:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/21\/profeminist-nice-job-prez-kathleen-hanna-must\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T10:22:51","slug":"profeminist-nice-job-prez-kathleen-hanna-must","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/21\/profeminist-nice-job-prez-kathleen-hanna-must\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-176117 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/21\/profeminist-nice-job-prez-kathleen-hanna-must\/attachment\/176118\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_ngv93l1Aj11s9rx9zo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_ngv93l1Aj11s9rx9zo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_ngv93l1Aj11s9rx9zo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/profeminist.tumblr.com\/post\/105666684852\/nice-job-prez-kathleen-hanna-must-be-proud\" target=\"_blank\">profeminist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Nice job Prez! Kathleen Hanna must be proud &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlstothefront.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">girls to the front<\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also: cue sound of a million MRA heads exploding.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/106924\/obama-made-history-by-ignoring-men-for-an-entire-press-conference\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Just Made History by Ignoring Men for an Entire Press Conference<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>As the president\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/106912\/president-obama-breaks-down-why-you-should-care-about-north-korea-s-massive-cyber-attack\" target=\"_blank\">took questions<\/a>\u00a0from reporters before setting off for vacation in Hawaii, he electrified the Twittersphere by doing something entirely unexpected and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/case-missed-obama-made-history-today-calls-female\/story?id=27722408\" target=\"_blank\">unprecedented<\/a>: He only took questions from women.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a brief comment on the economy, Obama fielded queries on the Sony cyber attacks, Cuba and more from eight women \u2014 and no men:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The deliberate decision to call on only female reporters was a subtle gesture but a big deal.<\/strong> While there is no shortage of talented women in political journalism, like in many other sectors they\u2019re often crowded out of highly ranked and conspicuous positions due to individual and institutional prejudice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>&ldquo;The fact is, there are many women from a variety of news organizations who day in and day out do the hard work of covering the president of the United States,&rdquo; White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2014\/12\/women-rule-obama-presser-200219.html\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0after Obama\u2019s press conference. \u201cAs the questioner list started to come together, we realized that we had a unique opportunity to highlight that fact at the president\u2019s closely watched, end-of-the-year news conference.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/106924\/obama-made-history-by-ignoring-men-for-an-entire-press-conference\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>profeminist: Nice job Prez! Kathleen Hanna must be proud &#8211; girls to the front!\u00a0 Also: cue sound of a million MRA heads exploding. Obama Just Made History by Ignoring Men for an Entire Press Conference \u201cAs the president\u00a0took questions\u00a0from reporters before setting off for vacation in Hawaii, he electrified the Twittersphere by doing something entirely &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/21\/profeminist-nice-job-prez-kathleen-hanna-must\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[212,60,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176119,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176117\/revisions\/176119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}