In These Times

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• • 07 Sep 08
  • 3:27 pm

  "Vitriol" is the metaphor perpetually used to define the gaunt life-negating feminism of the ERA past, as in "You, professor, are here knee-deep in corrosive vitriol." So now let me mention some other reasons why women will vote for Sarah Palin: She is a real leader -- smart, powerful, attractive, tough optimistic, proven. And above all she is not simply a "trophy Vice President" as she has been called of late, but she is a trophy woman for every family in the United States that struggles to raise their children in the shadow of the diminished so-called feminists who care more …

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• • 08 Sep 08
  • 9:05 am

  jburack, I am a college professor at a women's university, generally disdained by mainstream ERA feminists since I am an Independent Feminist. But the students love the new feminist message of power over victimhood and fruitfulness over sterility. Feminism is changing and it is leaving most women's studies department far behind, which is the reason for the vitriolic article above. Loss of jobs for the old guard feminists as they are replaced by optimistic new feminists evokes violent responses. Much of the anti-Obama sentiment of the old guard is also anti Biden as the man who refused to engage in the …

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• • 22 Jul 08
  • 10:07 pm

  As a college professor-- in the humanities no less--after reading this I clearly understand why so few students are feminists these days. This article is so shrill, so paranoid, so just "whack" I honestly thought it was parody and you were joking. I was smiling waiting for the punch line. Have you actually spoken honestly with many living young women these days? They want careers and kids. They do not want to buy children from other countries once they discover they are infertile and single at 40. Real breathing young women do not believe life with cats is equivalent to life …

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• • 23 Jul 08
  • 7:49 am

  "As for that whiny troll, Katha Pollitt, an unscrupulous and unreliable critic and a cultural philistine, she's a good example of the phony prep-school/trust-fund leftism suffusing the incestuously interwined Ivy League cliques who run the corrupt East Coast literary and magazine establishment." Camille Paglia, 1998, Salon This could just as easily apply to Kate Sheppard, without the Ivy League component of course.

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• • 18 Aug 08
  • 6:47 am

  Oh neilyou! The joys of victimhood, so satisfying to be helpless among the wolves, so worthy of compassion of one's fellows in despair, morning in America is so much nicer when your life is so so so hard so so so beyond your responsibility or effort. Enjoy your green tea neilyou et al.

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