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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 12:20 PM

    Lol..

    I've read every Flanagan essay with pleasure if simply because it's a glorious type of fiction born of some nagging feeling of inadequacy. I've recognize her type of prattle as a secularized version of Marianism, and dismiss it accordingly. If anyone out there is really made to feel badly because Ms Flanagan thinks working mothers are beyond the pale, I humbly suggest that the problem lies more with their own insecurities than it does Caitlin's rather obvious hypocrisy and over-developed sense of entitlement.

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