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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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About a year ago, I was visiting friends in Los Angeles. They had a small dinner party in my honor. All of us were lesbians, all relatively political. One couple had been together nearly 30 years, since they met in law school; another couple was raising Read More...
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Welcome, Kim, and I’m glad you brought up Alice Walker's “womanist” position. Her Root essay last March, “Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave,” endorsing Barack Obama stayed with me a long time. Not just because I found Walker’s Read More...
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Maybe not in South Carolina, it turns out. You may remember Regina McKnight, who in 2001 was convicted of "homicide by child abuse" for her stillbirth. The state argued that she'd killed her fetus by using cocaine while pregnant. This week, the South Read More...
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Just a quick note to welcome EJ Graff to our midst! EJ, thanks for the great post . I just finished reading a terrific law review article by Judith Kaye—the chief judge of New York's Court of Appeals—and Anne C. Reddy, looking at why women haven't caught Read More...
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Hey y'all, I am delighted to be joining this brilliant assembly. For my first post here, I'd like to point out that Mother's Day is coming up. A year ago I wrote a great deal about how the news media gets working mothers' issues all wrong—talking about Read More...
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Here’s a thoughtful piece from Courtney E. Martin at the American Prospect responding to Linda Linda Hirshman’s Slate piece from last Friday about the ways in which young feminists resent Hillary Clinton out of a semi-Freudian need to destroy their mothers. Read More...
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Just after my post below speculating that the abortion-as-performance-art story was a hoax, a fellow Slate ster sent around this press release from the Yale public relations office, stating that Aliza Shvarts never really impregnated herself or induced Read More...
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OK, I’m both resolutely pro-choice and a known oversharer on this topic, but that abortion-as-Yale-art-project item strikes me as genuinely repellent. It also strikes me as a scam. Though auto-insemination doesn’t always have to be high-tech and expensive Read More...
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Anybody else read the NYT Magazine piece on Harvard's intentional virgins? It was in many ways right off-the-rack: Not all young people who are virgins on purpose are dum-dum religious nuts. Some of them—brace yourselves—have even infiltrated Harvard. Read More...
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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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Sorry to be late to Obamapalooza, but I didn’t get to watch his speech until late last night. Isn’t it fascinating to hear Obama apologizing for Rev. Wright in almost the same terms we at XX have used to apologize/make excuses for Gloria Steinem, Robin 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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Barack Obama brought up Hillary Clinton's period ! "I understand that Senator Clinton periodically ,'' (See? He said it!) "when she's feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal." Clearly, he was saying his rival ought to look Read More...
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The pertinent fact about Patti Solis Doyle's explanation for leaving Hillary's campaign (that her little boy cried for Daddy instead of for her) seems to me to lie outside its factual veracity. It's probably a fictionalized condensation of something that's Read More...
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Granted, Tim , the timing is convenient for Patti Solis Doyle's mommy crisis. But couldn't both versions of events be true for Hillary's former campaign manager? Say your life's work is going down in flames—to the point that One Life to Live seems more Read More...
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When Hillary Clinton tugs on me, Emily and Hanna , it is usually not in a good way. Sometimes I do feel sorry for her, but I can't imagine casting a pity vote for president. Nor do I want to be guilted, frightened, fooled, or worn down to the point that Read More...
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Anyone wanna tell me what to make of the Clinton campaign loaning itself $5 million —ostensibly to level the playing field with Obama? We had a rollicking discussion here over the merits of Hillary’s refracted glory last month, and at the time I had no Read More...
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Well, devil temptress, thy name is Hanna, but I am standing my ground on Cindy McCain; well-exfoliated, yes, but love the upsweep. As for the color red, maybe it's on my mind because I recently had my once-a-decade consult with my friendly neighborhood Read More...
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After three days of coughing and spitting and quite literally losing her voice everywhere, Hillary Clinton’s speech tonight sidestepped the odd, preteen claim she recently made about having " found her voice " someplace along the campaign trail. Instead Read More...
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Emily , Emily , and Hanna : I’ll say this for the Robin Morgan letter. It certainly does crystallize the battle lines. I wonder if she’s mobilized half as many women as she antagonized with this effort. Her argument features the same limp syllogism Rich Read More...
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