All the misogyny fit to print?

Jeremy Gantz

Is the New York Times Book Review anti-feminist? A fascinating article in the current issue of Bitch emphatically argues: Yes. Recently, Times editors—in both the daily paper and the Sunday section—have trotted out a particularly insidious formula for bashing feminist authors. First, hire a female reviewer to unleash misogynist tropes in her piece and then, lest she appear prejudiced against her own gender, throw in an illogical, contradictory statement about the importance of a less threatening version of feminism that isn’t so “polarizing,” “provocative,” or “strident.” More evidence that the Times is not – and, I think, never has been - the bastion of rampant liberalism conservatives love to accuse it of being.

Jeremy Gantz is an In These Times contributing editor working at Time magazine.

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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