The XX Factor: What women really think.

The Personal is Political

Isn't there an irony here? All of that stuff being discussed with such energy today, most of which must look to the Republican campaign like dirty laundry—teenage pregnancy, flights in late pregnancy, decisions about abortion, child-raising—is the sort of material that, once upon a time, feminists described as "real" politics, of far greater importance than the tedious bourgeois political debate. And now it really is, suddenly, "real" politics, thanks to an evangelical conservative woman who brought all of it into the very center of the bourgeois political debate.