The Short List For The TIME Person of the Year

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! CEO

Only 2.5 women made the short list for the TIME Person of the Year: Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo!, Malala Yousafzai, the student activist from Pakistan who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, and Hillary Clinton as half of the Bill and Hillary Clinton nomination. 

What is Bill Clinton doing these days besides roaming around campaigning for other people? Yes, we are purposefully ignoring the many gains achieved by the Clinton Global Initiative. We believe Hillary deserves this nod without the likes of Bill.

The rest of the short list includes: Mohammed Morsi, president of Egypt; Undocumented Americans; President Barack Obama, the 2008 winner; Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple; and the Higgs Boson and Italian physicist Fabiola Giannati.

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Today is Malala Day

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon declared today, November 10, "Malala Day" to honor the Pakistani heroine who survived being shot by the Taliban. He called her a "global symbol" of girls' right to an education. "Education is a fundamental human right. It is a pathway to development, tolerance and global citizenship." 

Read more about Malala Day here.

Will a Striptease Save A Woman's Access to Education?

Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old Pakistani advocate for woman's access to education in Pakistan's Swat Valley, was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban last week. In 2009, she blogged for the BBC documenting the burning of girls' schools after violence erupted between the Taliban and Pakistan government. Ms. Yousafzai was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011, but did not win. Then, the government of Pakistan presented her with its first Pakistan National Peace Prize.

A spokesperson for the Tehrik-e-Taliban of Pakistan issued a statement claiming the assassination attempt was not directed at the girl per se, but at her ideas:

“If anyone thinks . . . that Malala is targeted because of education, that’s absolutely wrong, and a propaganda of [the] Media,” the statement said. “Malala is targeted because of her pioneer role in preaching secularism and so called enlightened moderation. And whom so ever will commit so in future too will be targeted again by TTP.”

Former First Lady Laura Bush wrote a compelling opinion article in The Washington Post urging leaders to do more than just laud this young girl. Read A Girl’s Courage Challenges Us to Act.

But then singer Madonna performed a striptease at a concert in Ms. Yousafzai's "honor," while the young girl remains in critical condition in the hospital. 

No, we're not kidding. SBW is sure this is not the type of action the Former First Lady was calling for and requests that celebrities at least try to understand the seriousness of the sacrifices by those like Malala. Madonna also claimed that she supported President Obama as the 'Muslim in the White House'. Get it together - because this is more than embarrassing.