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My comment on the article from the root "Sex in the city capital"
To me it seems that Obama may be one of the few presidents that has fought for women's rights. Here it speaks of how he wants to legalize abortion. In reality it's for sexual and reproductive health like giving women birth control pills without it being a problem. I think it's good if Obama manages to legaliz it but as it says in the article it's something very hard to speak about in the government and well I'm pretty sure many will oppose so it's going to be very troubling.

Questions: What do you believe is the reason as to why women don't really participate or join in political actions?
Why do you believe that beauty standards are very important on women?AS in the political area or other places like for jobs or as a wife.

Jessica Valenti's Full Frontal Feminism discusses the beauty standards that women have to go through. Some aren't accepted due to the way the look. Like presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been criticized just on the way she looks because she's a woman. Men have beauty standards for women, even vaginal standards that men don not have for them selfs (penis standards). In reality a women should be allowed to be her self and that is what feminism is here for, let ladies be them selfs, Valenti explains this in a funny but factional and serious way.