{"id":188663,"date":"2010-08-16T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/16\/what-lindsay-majikthise-said\/"},"modified":"2010-08-16T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T03:18:00","slug":"what-lindsay-majikthise-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/16\/what-lindsay-majikthise-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Lindsay &#8220;Majikthise&#8221; Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She writes on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/22866\">impending retirement of Cathy Guiswite<\/a> and notes that while Ms. Guiswite might be a bit of a feminist trailblazer, the character, a desperate woman obsessing about a husband and her thighs is not:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>If &#8220;Cathy&#8221; has any feminist value, it can be subsumed under the maxim: &#8220;If you can&#8217;t be a good example, you can at least be a horrible warning.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would further note that Ms. Guiswite&#8217;s actual &#8220;feminist trailblazer&#8221; cred is pretty thin.<\/p>\n<p>She is not the first female syndicated mass market cartoonist, that would have been Dale Messick, the creator of Brenda Starr.<\/p>\n<p>Though to give Ms. Guiswite her due, she certainly was a trailblazer in coffee mugs, t-shirts, and other commercial knock-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She writes on the impending retirement of Cathy Guiswite and notes that while Ms. Guiswite might be a bit of a feminist trailblazer, the character, a desperate woman obsessing about a husband and her thighs is not: If &#8220;Cathy&#8221; has any feminist value, it can be subsumed under the maxim: &#8220;If you can&#8217;t be a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,1005,971],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-business","category-civil-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}