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Introducing Salon's cheeky new women's blog

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  • Wednesday, November 29, 2006 04:01 PM

    Love the text, hate the name

    "Broad"as an epithet for "woman" is anathema to me. It's too loaded, too sexist, too coarse, to insulting, too painful; not cheeky, not funny, not cute, not clever, not edifying. It disgusts me. It irritates me that Salon offers a solid feminist perspective under such a grating term. Like "bitch" or "to bitch", it's not a word that would ever escape my lips (or computer) without quotation marks. I hope you'll wise up and change the name of the section to something that doesn't hit me hard.

    Polly Rothstein

    Purchase, NY

    —Polly Rothstein

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