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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Posts
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Judith, I agree that the right messenger (at the right moment) could deliver most of your speech on gender. But maybe it would be easier for a woman to achieve liftoff. Anybody else remember Nicole Hollander 's Sylvia cartoon on the wage gap? From her Read More...
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Rachael, Melinda, 1. I agree that Hillary would have a hard time getting away with the speech I want her to make . As Rachael says , abortion and workplace policies and matters of that ilk remain white-hot and divisive among women, not to mention in the Read More...
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If Dahlia can stand one more conversation about the conversation , I thought the grace note of Barack Obama's March 17 epic conversation starter were his few words about his grandmother’s quiet bigotry. He was, as pundit Jon Stewart said the next evening, Read More...
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Ouch . I think I just got my hair pulled. Guess it wasn't so memorable, but here is Kerry on the wage gap, which he spoke about on many occasions. Here he is on his plan to subsidize day care, which he tried to make a big deal of, though the press mostly Read More...
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One of Hillary Clinton's rationales for staying in the race when she was getting battered in a string of defeats was that she was so much more experienced than Barack Obama, that over time his inexperience would cause him to stumble. That would leave Read More...
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Christie's New York will be auctioning a naked portrait of the French first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, on April 10. I'm no prude, I'm certainly not a Victorian , and I commend the French for turning a blind eye to their politicians' private lives, but Read More...
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Hey Melinda , when you get off your fainting couch, John Kerry did NOT give that speech—not in the memorable, reimagining-family-values way that Judith is imagining . And yes you're right, Rachael , these issues are divisive, and I guess I have to reluctantly Read More...
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Sorry for the delay; I was on the fainting couch, indisposed and hoping I'd remember to tell Chantal that while I appreciate her efforts, overlacing cuts off oxygen to the brain. Judith , John Kerry did give that speech, point for point—until he was hoarse, Read More...
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