• more about #nice
    Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: There are reasons women, uniquely, don't feel the same allegiance to one another the way other marginalized groups do. Unlike other groups, we live i... more »
    alula: Ugh, I can kind of see her point (although she does tend to make it in a battering ram way) and I do think there's a vicious cycle aspect, in which wo... more »
    Susan B.: I think this is different than saying "This would never happen to black people!" She's not doing the Oppression Olympics, we-have-it-worse thing--she'... more »
    LilSpitfire: I don't think she gets it that sometimes in politics it's a matter of choosing to cut off your leg, or cut off your arm. Either way you're going to b... more »
    kentuckienne: For crying out loud -- am I happy with the Stupak Amendment? No. Am I happy with every decision Obama has made so far? Definitely not. Do I still h... more »
    SomeAuthorGirl: I get that Linda Hirshman wants me to be pissed. Except she never fails to make me pissed at her. Maybe a lot of the large donors she named don't fe... more »
    Pennsylvanian100: Could the women she is talking about be the 30 million single women who don't vote? It is really, really hard for me to get worked up about any abort... more »
    SocialAnimal: Not a fan of her metaphor, either, but she does have a good point about the primacy of identity. I mean my primary identity as others see it. In a ro... more »
    PilgrimSoul: Honestly, I try not to be an asshole about this sort of thing, but sometimes I feel like we're all crabs in a bucket in this "feminism" of ours. I do... more »
    AfroJezeBella: "Why won't women take a lesson from the bold voices of the gay movement?" Are said women seperate from homosexuals and blacks and other minority group... more »
    JerseyGrrrl: While I agree with the overall thrust... Oh Latoya ;) I hate, HATE the constant BJ metaphors and anal sex metaphors relied on when one group is bein... more »
    CurtCole: I really must learn to stop reading once I see "Linda Hirshman." I've never read anyone who was more consistently close to being right, but never actu... more »
    Ginmar Rienne: Haven't we learned about Hirschman already? Doesn't she always find a way to blame women? more »
  • #personalpolitical

    Writer Wonders Why Women Keep Swallowing For Democrats

    Using a slightly vulgar oral sex metaphor, Linda Hirshman takes to Salon today - the National Day of Action against Stupak-Pitts - to rage against female complacency when it comes to using a pocketbook veto on the Democratic Party. More »
  • #britneyspearsandmadonna

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