The Many Faces of Being a Woman in 2008 - 236.com - The Room

The Many Faces of Being a Woman in 2008 - 236.com - The Room: "The Many Faces of Being a Woman in 2008

Sybil Adelman Sage | Bio

Channel surfing last night at midnight drove home what being a woman means in 2008:

At the same moment as a re-run of the Obama/McCain interview with McCain citing eBay founder Meg Whitman as one of three people whose opinion he'd seek out should he become president, the teenage female gymnasts were shown executing seemingly impossible and gravity-defying floor programs and then managing to congratulate rivals while a few stations away two morbidly obese women whose efforts to lose hundreds of pounds were being shown, and CNN was presenting a special on women in Afghanistan who have to sneak off--at great risk--to get an education."