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Pro-Obama Girls Gone Wild

There's some debate going on in the female blogosphere over a group of young women in Brooklyn who created a provocative pro-Obama poster that states: "Girls say yes to boys who say Obama." The poster is a send-up of an anti-draft poster from the late '60s featuring Joan Baez and her sisters that read: "Girls say yes to boys who say no." While BUST gives the poster the nod, deeming it "cheeky" and "fun," Broadsheet declares it "boring, overdone sexual politics" and "kind of gross," with Rebecca Traister asserting: "[it] makes me want to drown myself." Meanwhile Jezebel's Jessica Grose shrugs her shoulders: "Personally, I think it's a little self-consciously cutesy, certainly derivative and ironically playing into outdated sexual mores, but ultimately harmless."

Perhaps Dahlia's nod to "generational division" is part of what's at work here. For the most part, the postfeminist generation has less of a problem uniting the political and the sexual, but some women seem to feel any overlapping of the two is deeply problematic. For my part, I thought the poster was amusing. At this point, I'm for anything that will put Obama in office.