Thursday, June 05, 2008 - Posts
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Emily Bazelon, Melinda Henneberger, Dahlia Lithwick, and Meghan O'Rourke chatted about Hillary on washingtonpost.com this afternoon.
Some excerpts:
Dahlia weighed in on idea that young feminists don't understand how hard it was back in the 70s: "I think the whole ‘second wave versus young feminists' narrative swamped the whole campaign and ultimately obscured a lot more than it illuminated about the race."
Meghan addressed the thorny question of the Clinton marriage: "While I feel I can be kind of doctrinaire about feminism, and the need for women to band together, I feel we should all be libertarians when it comes to eros. That is, who knows what keeps her in the marriage; maybe it's ambition, but maybe it's a complicated form of love.
Melinda answered a reader's question about the all the anti-Hillary sentiment on the XX Factor: "When Hillary Clinton first appeared on the national scene, I was so taken with her, and loved everything from her history to her hairband. ...[In the 1990s] I saw both Clintons as the victims of terrible regional and class bias and her as a target of woman-haters across the land. Her and their behavior over the years has changed my view, and no one is sorrier about that than I am."
And Emily discussed whether we're ever going to stop hearing about the "women's vote": "Even if it's annoying to be treated as a bloc-member automaton, it's not a bad thing to be courted-it should mean, anyway, that things you (we) care about are getting attention and in theory at least that could have a real result. Universal preschool, anyone? Social security parity? Paid family leave?"
Read the whole transcript.
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