Last night, Gloria Steinem was on Colbert to promote the new HBO
documentary about her life. As Stephen Colbert put it
cheerfully, it's "only seventy five percent as long as
documentaries about men."  He added, "It is a window into a time
when sexism existed. But now everything's equal. There's Spanx
for men." In the interview, Steinem also talked about the
double-edged sword of being the "pretty feminist" and its
converse. On that topic, Amanda Marcotte wrote at Slate,  A lot
of us grew up with stereotypes about how second wave feminists
were poorly groomed harridans, and many of us younger feminists
have naively assumed that we could shrug that off by
highlighting that we too can be funny, sexy, fashionable, and
fun-loving. But actually, you look at the pictures and realize
that feminist groups always had a lot of smart-looking women in
them, and that the stereotype that feminists are ugly is used by
the opposition because it suits their ends, not because it has
any relationship to reality.  Those stereotyp