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.

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

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