{"id":19718,"date":"2016-02-06T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T22:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19718"},"modified":"2016-02-06T14:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T22:30:04","slug":"maher-interviews-steinem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/06\/maher-interviews-steinem\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher Interviews Steinem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As I have said before, Bill Maker is so funny that I forgive his evangelical atheism, because he&rsquo;s right on virtually everything else.&nbsp; Here he interviews Gloria Steinem.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0206MaherSteinem\" border=\"0\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/0206MaherSteinem.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"0206MaherSteinem\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a wide ranging &mdash; and alternately serious and funny &mdash; interview with HBO host Bill Maher, feminist icon Gloria Steinem addressed the myth that a woman can &ldquo;have it all,&rdquo; saying that is impossible for both men and women.<\/p>\n<p>Steinem is promoting her new book, &ldquo;My Life on the Road,&rdquo; saying that it where she has spent most of her time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The road used to be a male province for no good reason. It should be everybody&rsquo;s place, &rdquo; she explained. &ldquo;But also the road was thought to be more dangerous. But, statistically speaking, home is the most dangerous place for a woman,&rdquo; she added, alluding to domestic violence&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/02\/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-to-bill-maher-home-is-still-the-most-dangerous-place-for-a-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have to disagree with one thing.&nbsp; One of my functions with SDS in New York Coty in the 1960s was to liaise with other organizations, which is how I came to know several famous people.&nbsp; In that role, I met Gloria on a couple of occasions, and contrary to what she now says, she has mellowed with age and now seems quite likeable.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have said before, Bill Maker is so funny that I forgive his evangelical atheism, because he&rsquo;s right on virtually everything else.&nbsp; Here he interviews Gloria Steinem. In a wide ranging &mdash; and alternately serious and funny &mdash; interview with HBO host Bill Maher, feminist icon Gloria Steinem addressed the myth that a woman <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/06\/maher-interviews-steinem\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}