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Monday, March 03, 2008 - Posts
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Here is an entry in the category of why my husband is better than your husband. Since the minute he read the review of Love and Consequences , the book by a white girl (Margaret Jones) raised in South Central by a black foster mother, "Big Mom," David Read More...
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Yes, Charlotte Allen really has outdone herself with this one, but then we’re all writing about it and forwarding it and reading it, so the Post really sort of won by losing again, didn’t it? In case anyone at the Post (and yes, the Post owns Slate ) Read More...
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Like Liza, I am not a huge fan of the b-word; how about we send Cindy to that boy's house? Tina Fey's "Bitch is the New Black" joke about how it takes women mean as nuns to get things done is funny—as was Hillary, in her good-natured appearance on this Read More...
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Today, Washington Post science writer Shankar Vedantam has a piece titled " Intimate Rivalries " about how married couples and close friends negotiate their jealousy when they are both in the same field. He says researchers have found that "unhappy couples Read More...
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Thank you to Feministing for pointing out that after getting hundreds of reader comments, the Post tried to mute the Allen controversy by quietly changing the headline from "Women Aren't Very Bright" to "Why Do Women Act So Dumb?" Now that's forthright Read More...
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I always like to hear an old voice from the Independent Women's Forum if just for nostalgia's sake. And Charlotte has always been one of my favorites. So Charlotte, here's my reponse. There is already such an office novel. It's called Then We Came to Read More...
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Just to revisit for a second the thread about profanity: Emily's Tina Fey homage and Cindy Loose's parking lot dispatch both arrived, for me, at an opportune moment. Last week, my sweet and cheerful 12-year-old came home to report that a boy on her middle-school Read More...
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At the risk of dignifying the inane with more indignation than it's worth, did the Washington Post really run, as one of its main weekend Outlook pieces, an essay whose sole point is to argue that women are dumb ? The writer, Charlotte Allen, describes Read More...
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That Tina Fey riff is great — Hillary as ass-kicking nun. Hillary fares much better in that one than she does in the latest show running at Second City, the famous Chicago comedy theater, original home of Tina Fey (and Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray and Read More...
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Mom who works at home: Bill will be picking up the girls today . Non-salaried mom: Why, are you out of town ? M: No, just on deadline . N: Well that's awfully nice of him. I hate for him to have to do that . M: It's not nice; he's their dad . N: But, Read More...
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