Courtney, I really appreciate you taking the time to outline what you're doing and why.  Even though I disagree with you in some respects, I can see and will defend your thinking.  (By the way, I came here via BitchPhD.)

I'm from Robin Morgan's generation, and I did not read (still do not read) the quote you lifted from her GTAT2 piece as ever possibly pertaining to you.  It was sarcastic, not patronizing, and none of the behaviors she describes are things I believe you've ever done.  So why do you take the label on?  Don't, sister.  Your generation's definitions of things should stand on their own, and in contradiction not only to our generation's definitions (which are just as valid) but also those whom she describes in that comment (whose positions are NOT valid but are all too prevalent in the blogosphere). 

I long for serious, truly progressive, truly feminist leadership.  I don't see feminism, as I define it, being satisfactorily exhibited by either Obama OR Clinton.  They are both hawkish, willing to protect the moneyed elite, and missing the boat on genuine reform in almost every arena.  Aurora Levins Morales has an excellent essay on the Bigger Picture out there on the web, titled "Thinking Outside the Ballot Box". 

I will, of course, support whichever candidate wins the Democratic nomination.  The alternative will kill the planet.  I've stopped going to so-called progressive blogs who've chosen a "side" and are not covering both candidacies with equal respect, especially the slickly-hidden misogyny of DKos.  They are morons whose rhetoric is just feeding the Right's machine.  The power elite LOVES us being at each other's throats:  They know Black versus Woman is much preferable to anyone insisting on calling out both woman-hating and white supremacy wherever it appears, with equal fervor.    ------------ Maggie Jochild

P.S.  I ask the moderators of this site to remove the Jews Against Obama hate above.  Hate is not free speech.