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| Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:54 PM |
| Okay, I don't like Tina Brown |
| by poppy |
Never have. Her arguments often are pat and convuluted at best. I offer a piece from the Washington Post. I clicked on it off of google news, not paying attention to the fact it was a Brown piece, because the first sentence intrigued me: "The healthiest aspect of the Harriet Miers nomination is that women haven't rallied to her cause." The first paragraph is interesting. The second and third paragraphs descend into novelty. By paragraph four there is no longer a unifying theme that I can see, just a whole lot of "pre-feminist" drivel. And, FYI, there were plenty of women who did not support Thatcher just because she had a snatch in addition to the stiff upper lip Tina. Holding that hawk up as a model to female politicians does a disservice to whatever brand of feminism you're referring to, as well as undermining your original point, which was I think that times have changed. It does certainly, however, underline the fact that woman cum woman is not a guarantee of decency; it would have been nice to have more coherence when making that point, not to mention better examples. |
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