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We've Got To Elect Her, or What Would We Have To Talk About?
In Meghan's wonderful piece on Susan Faludi's new book, she argues that while all bias against women in our country has not been eradicated, "Faludi tells us that the sky is falling when the debris coming down, in some cases, is just another glass ceiling being cracked open.'' Exactly! You've perfectly summed up my knee-jerk skepticism about how much Hillary hatred goes back to Eve, when maybe some of it is only personal. And just as a thought experiment—one that might or might not show how far women have come—how do you think it would have played if Barack Obama had given a race-based version of Clinton's gender card answer in last week's debate? What if, in other words, Obama had given a speech somewhere about dealing with the all-white club, had been asked to explain himself and had answered with playful derision that, duh, black people do have just the tiniest bit of extra *!%# to put up with from time to time. My bet is that the room would not have exploded in laughter.
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