{"id":3201,"date":"2010-05-23T22:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:54:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:54:39","slug":"robin-ghivan-kagan-dowdy-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/05\/23\/robin-ghivan-kagan-dowdy-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Ghivan Makes Me Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alert the authorities:  U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/05\/21\/AR2010052101670.html \">&#8220;embraced dowdy as a mark of brainpower.&#8221;<\/a> Moreover, unlike &#8220;most women&#8221; she doesn&#8217;t cross her legs when she&#8217;s sitting.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Washington Post columnist Robin Ghivan is at it again with her <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2010\/05\/scotus-kagan-fashion.php\">sexist<\/a> political fashion drivel.  (I still haven&#8217;t recovered from Ghivan&#8217;s column about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/19\/AR2007071902668.html\">Hillary Clinton&#8217;s cleavage.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Well here&#8217;s a news flash for Ms. Ghivan: Any grown woman with half a brain knows that crossing your legs is both uncomfortable and unhealthy. But hey, if you want <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenshealth.gov\/faq\/varicose-spider-veins.cfm\">varicose veins<\/a> go right ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Ghivan Makes Me Cross (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>If you care about good circulation<br \/>\nAnd prefer that your feet have sensation,<br \/>\nThen you don&#8217;t cross your legs.<br \/>\nGivhan&#8217;s column&#8217;s the dregs.<br \/>\nSexist nonsense is Robin&#8217;s fixation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alert the authorities: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has &#8220;embraced dowdy as a mark of brainpower.&#8221; Moreover, unlike &#8220;most women&#8221; she doesn&#8217;t cross her legs when she&#8217;s sitting. Yes, Washington Post columnist Robin Ghivan is at it again with her sexist political fashion drivel. (I still haven&#8217;t recovered from Ghivan&#8217;s column about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1291,121,10,2,168,6,7,3,13],"tags":[1321,2879,854,986,2793,1296,275,1320,377,1322,328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}