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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.

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  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:26 AM

    bah

    It always amuses me how some working (or previously working) women bash feminism - apparently without it occuring to them that the feminist movement and ideology made their law practice, freelance writing, whatnot careers possible to pursue - or at least much easier.

    This woman is a writer with some level of success, and there's some whiny lawyer who has been another feminism basher of late - yet they never express any gratitude, or admit that feminism ever had any bearing on their successful careers/lives. Talk about dishonest- or at the least, intellectually bereft.

    Wifely duties? Oh, gosh...shall we drag out the whalebone corsets next? Yes, we're put on this earth to willingly have our bodies used for someone's pleasure when we don't feel like it - becuase THEY want it. I feel sick to my stomach reading this Victorian bullshit.

    In fact, I'm sick of this whole subject - and sick of otherwise sane women always picking at each other over every little thing. Liberals and women have the same fatal habit - they both eat their own.

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