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Hayden Panettiere, better known as America's favorite cheerleading hero (alright ... my favorite cheerleading hero) Claire Bennett on NBC's Heroes, is this week's Rule 5 Hottie of the Week!

First, a little about Miss Hayden, then a bit of social commentary ...

Hayden Panettiere (32-26-34) has become a favorite female role model for young girls in America, thanks to her clean and respectable attitude.  Hayden was cast in the soap opera "One Life to Live" when she was four years old and stayed on for three years. She appeared in over fifty commercials and lent her voice to one of the characters in A Bug's Life (1998). Hayden then got into movies, starting with Remember the Titans (2000) and also Joe Somebody (2001).

Hayden auditioned for the role of cheerleading hottie Claire Bennett on the show Heroes, alongside hottie Ali Larter , and made everyone love team spirit again. The show just finished its third season, and looking at the ratings, the show isn't going anywhere any time soon. Hayden was also nominated for a Grammy in 1999 for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for A Bug's Life Read-Along (2000), and is currently working on an album.

Hayden Panettiere is quite the activist too. On October 31, 2007, attempting to disrupt the annual dolphin hunt in Taija, Wakayama, Japan, she was involved in a confrontation with some of the Japanese fisherman. The fisherman considered the activists condemnation as an attack on their culture. She and 5 other activists were forced to return to shore, after which they left the country.

Let's see ... who else has some Rule 5 going today?

Donald Douglas hooks us up with Brittney Spears in a bikini. Very nice!

R.S. McCain says, "celebrity babes generate traffic," so Monique "HostMES" Stuart decided on a whole week of hotness! Alright! I guess she just can't get sex off her brain. Oh, wait, that's Meghan McCain.

See Rule Five Friday: Reese Witherspoon, Rule Five Thursday: Halle Barry, Ruke Five Wednesday: Kim Basinger, and Rule Five Sunday: Farrah Fawcet.

That's all I can find for now.  I'll do my best to post more as they pop-up.

 

I happened across a great article by Reason Magazine's Katherine Mangu-Ward, I thought I'd include in this weeks Rule 5 Saturday - highlights below.
I'll leave the commentary up to you.  Or, just look at the Hayden Panettiere bikini pics (we all know that's what you're really doing). 

 

Farewell to old-style feminists:

"In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan argued that American women suffered from a malaise she called `the problem that had no name' ... If you had to pinpoint today's problem that had no name, what would it be?''

In 2006, at 25, I left a position as a researcher at The New York Times. As my boss and I boarded the elevator for my goodbye lunch, a successful middle-aged newspaperwoman joined us ... she politely inquired if it was Secretary's Day. Mortified, I rushed to explain that I was no secretary, but a Working Journalist, and we were heading to lunch because I was leaving the Times to follow my then-boyfriend (now-husband) to Boston, where he'd be starting business school in the fall.

What would I be doing in Boston? she asked. I told her the truth: I didn't have a job lined up yet. She shook her head, the corners of her mouth curling downward, and snapped that the next relocation had better be for my career ...

We've had a revolution, a backlash, a rinse, and a repeat since Friedan wrote her zeitgeist-altering book. The choking, claustrophobic silence about the compromises women make, which Friedan documents so movingly, is long since eradicated ...

We endlessly discuss how to have it all, plus personal fulfillment, work-life balance, helicopter parenting, not knowing how she does it, freezing eggs, opting out, and yummy mummies. We will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

So if we're living in a post-post-Friedan utopia, why aren't women happier? Well, women make a lot of bad choices. But you know who else makes terrible choices? Men.

The woman [in the elevator] had done the same thing on an earlier occasion, [asking about a story that] described Yale students and recent graduates (I'm one) who were planning to "opt out" for a year or two or five when they spawned.

She was aghast to hear that I didn't have strong feelings either way, and warned me against dropping out of the workforce.

God help my shallow self, as I stood there looking at her rumpled suit and dated hair and frown lines, I was overwhelmed with pity. Perhaps watching me breeze into the life she had so laboriously carved out for herself - or worse, stray from the hard line in a way that she and other feminists couldn't allow themselves to - felt to her like a bitter betrayal.

But it felt great to me.

 

Update: Professor Douglas was just warming up with Brittney Spears in a bikini ... he's gone Full Metal Saturday with Marisa Miller!

The Humble Libertarian may not have had Rule 5 on his mind, but he sure knows how to post hotness! Toying with the idea of starting his own Miss Libertarian USA Pageant, he provides us with "a list of a few beautiful, sexy, courageous, intelligent, and libertarian women."

 

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