Let me give you an example:

Greenwald wrote, "Prioritizing political allegiance to their leader was exactly the mistake the Right made for the first several years of the Bush presidency. Even Bill Kristol admitted in The New York Times: "Bush was the movement and the cause." An entire creepy cottage industry arose on the Right devoted to venerating George W. Bush."

Uh ... that is just not true and blown out of proportion.

Plus, what does that have to do with Democrats' situation now? That Democrats and "liberals" are treating BO like the Republicans were blindly loyal to GWB? Remember GWB's first term was fueled by 9/11. The fervent symbolism from politicians was merely riding on the patriotism wave among the American public. In the Republican Congress, between 2001 and 2006, who was the boss?

This is pretty hilarious. Male commenters plus Cary Tennis all tend to see only the environment Nazi problem but overlook the more glaring relationship problem --- obviously it does not even register with male readers that the letter writer, the wife, is shouldering too much responsibility in this marriage.

Men see nothing wrong with a wife who financially supports her husband and does all the housework.

The letter writer obviously has self-esteem issues not unlike other submissive wives.

Because the very definitions of "great" and "ambitious" are male constructs? The whole industry of academic literary criticism is ruled by impotent little old men?

Why does anyone need to write a book about something so obvious? Perhaps it is too obvious, too under our nose, to be visible.

I don't think any writer who set out to write a novel within the boundaries of "The Great American Novel" as defined by literary critics ever succeeded.

Nobody ever complains that most GANs by male writers from the past hardly contain any believable and moving portraits of women, despite the sweeping scope that is supposed to capture the entire period and society. Moby Dick is a prime example. Hahaha.

If a novel has to fit in all the narrow confines of what male critics and establishment consider as the GAN, female writers should just say "f*ck it" and write her own novels. A novel only needs to be good.

I find it rather interesting that I always see this kind of self-examination and preaching on the liberal side of the isle, not that there is anything wrong with it. Not sure if there is nearly as much reflections and agony over restraining oneself on the other side because, well, I don't sit there. Somehow I suspect Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly do not inspire such behaviors in their fans.

Civility is a two-way street. If someone tries to shove her Republican opinions down my throat, I push back. If she respects our differences and leaves me alone, I talk about the weather. This is not really about which side they sit but mutual respect and civility. If someone cannot give respect, she does not deserve it in return.