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About a book most Americans will never hear of, let alone read? Why, dear Goddess, why?
Not that it wasn't a well-written four pages. But still...does anyone really take this Ladies Against Women garbage seriously? What's next, a four-page review of Ann Coulter's latest? (Hey, at least when Al Franken went after Coulter, he got laughs out of it.)
Personally, I think when most American mothers are looking for a guilt trip, they're a lot more likely to turn to Dr. Phil or Dr. Laura than some pseudoliterate Church Lady type like Caitlin Flanagan. Women in search of someone to make them feel lousy about themselves generally prefer to get their spankings over with quickly and without fuss, without having to wade through a whole lot of foo-foo prose to get to it.
C'mon, Joan Walsh. You're better than the woman you're writing about here, and probably more influential. Flanagan's fame clock was already at 14:57 when you started typing.
