Nonesuch writes, "Right out of the gate, as a first resort, you're already seeking to forcibly silence someone else."

Excuse me, but "forcibly silence"? I don't see anybody being forced in any way: nobody is keeping Salon from putting its cheeky blog up. Nobody is keeping you from writing a letter defending it, just as nobody is keeping me from writing a letter excoriating it. Freedom of the press doesn't mean freedom from withering criticism.

Welcome to the marketplace of ideas. You're welcome to say whatever you wish; I'm welcome to tell you that what you've said is wrong. Grow a thicker skin and deal with it.

This is ridiculously insulting and wrong, and Salon should be ashamed to have ever thought it was a good idea.

I find the very idea that there needs to be a separate space for this sort of thing infuriating. Think the news needs more of a feminist perspective? Great--put it into the articles on the existing Salon pages. Then let those articles sink or swim on their merits, without the cutesy-poo ghettoization.

The women I know who read Salon, post on Table Talk, etc., don't need their perspective pinkly roped off. If an idea is a good one, it can hack it in the larger world of Salon.

Lastly, I know it isn't your intention to imply that women are a monolith or that they ought to think alike--care about the same issues and reach the same conclusions--but it sure looks that way.

It's as if you want to have your cake and eat it too: on the one hand, you want to say, women are more nurturing/relationship-centered/funny/whatever than those nasty old men. Women are like this and care about that; they're good at this-and-so; they like this type of stories; their politics are like thus-and-such. (Whereas men, presumably, are all too often insensitive, crude, territorial boors and patriarchal oppressors.) But, at the same time, you want to say that stereotypes are bad! And sexist! Women can be anything they want to be! How dare you stereotype us!

If you don't see the inherent contradiction there, I can't help you.