Comedian Sarah Haskins: feminism as a lifelong war against pantyhose


	Comedian Sarah Haskins: feminism as a lifelong war against pantyhose

Lexica

7-5-2008 1:20 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f7395199-d479-4d7d-96b2-4bcf43a46b90/FD71A6BA-97B4-4E8E-A8D9-9C1CC2BB950A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thebastion.org/2008/06/inside_with_sarah_haskins.html" href="http://www.thebastion.org/2008/06/inside_with_sarah_haskins.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thebastion.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thebastion.org/2008/06/inside_with_sarah_haskins.html"><STRONG>Do you consider yourself a feminist, and if so, what does that mean to you, and what role do you think it plays in your comedy?</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thebastion.org/2008/06/inside_with_sarah_haskins.html"><P>Yes, I’m a feminist. It is an extension of my lifelong war against pantyhose.</p> <P>To me it means that as women we are individuals before we are gendered people and that we’re not defined by our gender except in the ways we chose to appropriate that definition.</p> <P>We’re in a weird generation, right? Our Moms were forced to grapple with that definition more immediately, and I think it’s changed as we’ve grown up. The core issue "how do I fight bias against me because of my gender" is still there but has gotten more complicated and wrapped into all kinds of identity issues about how you present yourself as a woman and I pretty much think it's your choice and fuck pantyhose. So, hence my answer above.</p> <P>I think all comedians bring their experience and perspective to comment on the world and I am a woman, so that gets involved.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thebastion.org/2008/06/inside_with_sarah_haskins.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thebastion.org/img/0F923527-A2B3-40DF-BD7C-FD30113E5051" alt="Photobucket" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FD71A6BA-97B4-4E8E-A8D9-9C1CC2BB950A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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