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About time? Way past time-- it's about thirty years out of date.
This self-indulgent mess reeks of discredited, second-wave, dworkinist, men-are-crap feminism, of the kind that did so much damage to relations between the sexes, tore the country apart, and and allowed its takeover by the Nixon-Reagan-Bush machine and the Far Right.
Enlightened people, particularly younger women, have long since rejected this kind of one sided, the-world-hates-me-because-I'm-superior crap. To see it reappearing on a website I once respected is very discouraging. We're in a war here, folks; there's no time for you-wouldn't-understand-it's-all-about-meism.
Those of us who are in the trenches, fighting for real change, have all we can do to overcome the alienating influence of abortion on demand and a gay marriage initiative right before a major election. Dividing the progressive society, alienating men and sane women and giving ammunition to Far Right media just gives us more to struggle against. What are we suppposed to say: "Ignore the crazies, vote for us anyway?"
To answer one of your questions: No, Maureen Dowd isn't necessary and never has been. Neither is this column, which takes up (apparently otherwise unemployable) personnel and financial resources better put to more political and serious lifestyle reporting. (Yes, sometimes it is about me, but you'd never know it from Salon's fem and gay heavy lifestyle content.) I'm one of your subscribers. I deserve better, and so do all the others.
Eric Fralick
