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... is what you should have called this stupid section if you had to have it at all. That would have been honest, after all you write "Sometimes those e-mails turned into stories, but often the item would be small enough that it wouldn't merit its own feature at Salon, either. Still, the staff comments -- hilarious, angry, shocked, pleased -- would zing back and forth by e-mail chain. Without realizing it, we'd begun our own internal blog," - fine, if your blog-envy is so bad you absolutely need another bloggy feature here, go for it*. Calling it a "women's blog" is just insulting.
Salon of all places should have more sense than to divide items along some outdated gender-lines. You have been the example I have pointed people to to show them that all of the US isn't sliding into some kind of mid-19th century paranoia.
If you had only called it "The fluff room" or "Editors waste time too" I could have been able to still cling to that hope.
It is one thing to proclaim that lipstick isn't anathema to feminism, quite another to equate women with fluff.
(*But a little perspective on things please: funny, weird, light-weight stuff is ok, as long as it doesn't drain resources from your *real* jobs - publishing high quality journalism.)
