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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 04:32 PM

    that's the point

    It's obvious that when someone is unable to decide weather a word is a compound word or not, that public schools are in dire straits. My sarcasm (and I apologize for it) was trying to point to that. But I wrote out of childishness. And by the way I went to both private and public schools, and for what it's worth, private school is where it's at.

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