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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:00 AM

The happy hypocrite

I never cared that Caitlin Flanagan calls herself an at-home mother, even though she's a magazine writer with a staff of helpers. But now she's using her battle with cancer to denounce feminism and extol her traditional virtues -- and I've had it.

By Joan Walsh

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 07:29 AM

Who?

I read a lot of stuff, some of it by women advancing similar ideas, such as Christina Hoff Somers, Danielle Crittenden, etc., and I'd never heard of Caitlin Flanagan. So I sort of don't care how much hypocrisy she demonstrates.

But if I might say this: "tough" isn't the word I'd use, Ms. Walsh, for describing someone who is willing to "kick someone with cancer." Unless it's the first word in the phrases that end, "to accept is a decent human being" or "to believe wouldn't also kick puppies" or "to believe once wrote a really good book about the problems associated with women's gymnastics and skating."

—Brett

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