3 thoughts on “Jagdish Bhagwati’s definition of feminist sincerity

  1. So, the two Supreme Court nominations, State, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Ambassador to the United Nations, EPA, don’t count.

  2. Those were all positions related to the US. It make sense to appoint an American to an AMERICAN Supreme Court or to an AMERICAN Ambassadorship, for instance.

    It makes much less sense to continually appoint an American to lead a global institution however, especially for most of said global institution’s history.

  3. Having read Obama’s “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” several times, I can only recall part of a single sentence in that 150,000 word book that sounds like standard feminist rhetoric. He gives the impression of finding feminism to be much less interesting and rather annoyingly derivative compared to the black civil rights movement. For instance, he gives some credit to his grandmother, who supported him, for being a pioneering female bank executive, but he devotes vastly more emotional energy in his book to complaining about the insult to his personal feelings the one time she was worried for her safety after being harassed by a black streetperson. He revived this complaint about his dying grandmother in his celebrated race speech excusing his long relationship with his role model Jeremiah Wright.

    Thus, I wasn’t surprised that he gave so much power to feminist bete noire Larry Summers. Nor was it startling that Jody Kantor’s book The Obamas reported that female staffers demanded a meeting with Obama to complain about the boys club atmosphere of the White House shutting them down in meetings.

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