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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 07:25 AM

more of a scold, I thought

I read Flanagan's articles, and while there's an element of truth in all of them, I found her tone and eventual points irritating. A scold, I concluded, strident in sounding self-satisfied, but perhaps not entirely confident underneath it. Apparently I wasn't too far off.

Incidentally, I had a very non-feminist, non-PC reaction when I saw the advert for her new book in the Atlantic Monthly -- more specifically, when I saw the picture. That thought was "that's a smug face. God, look at her hair, no wonder I didn't like her." Nice to know I can focus on what really matters... (BTW, in the event anyone reads this far and is upset, that was self-deprecating humour.)

—haggismold Read haggismold's other letters

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