The XX Factor : post-gender candidate

Tina Fey Is Right: Palin's Not Going Anywhere

Rachael Larimore — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:52:00 GMT

Hanna, Thanks for your post on Sarah Palin . It's funny: I was at the polls today, doing my mundane but important civic duty, coloring in all the circles completely like a student taking a standardized test and reading the language of all the amendments...(read more)

24 More Years? Not This Time

Lauren Sandler — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:38:00 GMT

Ah, the irony of the sexy librarian inquiring whether it's legal to ban books. What I was initially getting at was less how Sarah Palin defines herself and more how our culture has responded to those definitions. For example, in all the McCain blame-game...(read more)

Post-Palin America

Hanna Rosin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:47:00 GMT

I think we're talking about some quality of Palin's we haven't pinned down yet. I've talked to some women who thought her performance on the prank call , and then on SNL last night, made her seem small, and defeated. And that they felt sorry for her....(read more)

The Next Woman

Emily Bazelon — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:17:00 GMT

Welcome, Lauren , and thanks to you and Nina for starting to puzzle over these identity implications of the campaign, which will be with us long after the polls close today. (Oh, what a glorious phrase: The polls will actually close.) If post-gender means...(read more)

Posting About Post-ness

Nina Shen Rastogi — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:34:00 GMT

Lauren , your post about Palin and Obama got me thinking. As I’ve always understood the concept of “post-race,” it isn’t really about being past race. Race isn’t something you can transcend. But it is something you can bend and complicate—especially if...(read more)

Did Sarah Palin Become a Post-Gender Candidate?

Lauren Sandler — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:54:00 GMT

My beloved Liz Lemon—er, I mean Tina Fey —isn't the only one suggesting that Sarah Palin's focus has shifted from 2008 to 2012. Today, trying get a jump on the post-election story before the polls even open, much less close, a host of politicos are placing...(read more)