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Here's why my “outrage is not knee-jerk” and why women like Caitlin Flanagan are bad news. If Joan W. and the letter writers covered this already, so be it.
You expect a relic like Phyllis Schlafly or a fool like Ann Coulter (who cannot write--oh, her books are badly written) to make asses of themselves with their anti-woman, anti-feminist b.s.
It's different when an articulate, educated, votes Democrat, pro-choice (so she says), humorous, self-deprecating woman who writes for the New Yorker no less, BLAMES FEMINISM for a whole host of things, including husbands not getting any action unless they're forced to take their wives to Olive Garden.
It’s like blaming democracy for George W. Bush being president. (ok, you could probably lay some blame there, but that’s another letter.)
This is more than Caitlin Flanagan being “contrarian” and finding a gimmick to make a buck. She really believes that feminists are family killers and make “women not respected in the home.” It's a kind of self-hate that she is trying to project/market to women who will listen.
And the irony of it all is mind blowing.
P.S. I think she looks like a young Ethel Kennedy, but sadly the comparison stops there.
