The Randomly Selected Ford Sponsored LIST of FIRSTS INCLUDES NIKKI HALEY! And Madeleine Albright. And Hillary Clinton!

OOPS!

L'Oréal sacks its first transgender model for 'all white people are racist' comment

Alain Badiou, The True Life

Penetration of the neoliberal lexicon into Hollywood film. Here is one example: "the first."

Nobody's Fool (dir. Tyler Perry, 2018)

Obit: "He was the first . .. Then he died." (Being first was all that mattered, apprently.)

"female lesbian?" Is there any other kind?

Here are the speeches Ocasio-Cortez, James Thompson, and Bernie Sanders gave. Notice that they have an explicitly socialist agenda.

http://www.bet.com/video/upfront/2017/exclusives/the-rundown-with-robin-thede.html

People Magazine Meets Politics (Thorne as the new neoliberal Trevor Noah)

From the end title sequence of the film Hidden Figures (2016)

DEC. 26, 2017

Contrast Iceland example below to the firsts that follow:

Critique of "firsts" in elitist feminist literary criticism:

Jonathan Goldberg, 1997

CHARLOTTE SHANE Hard stuff

"She was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"

Aretha Franklin: The 60 Minutes interview

From 1990, 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley meets the Queen of Soul

 

 

 

Is the neoliberal use of "firsts" part of a corporate / CIA plot to infiltrate feminist organizations for misogynistic purposes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem

http://www.gloriasteinem.com

Gloria Steinem Discussing Her Time in the CIA

National Student Association