If you want to continue the discussion with me please feel free to write directly

So says Ms. Traister to those who are critical of Broadsheet, and that's sad. It seems to me to be an attempt to keep this discussion out of the public eye, to force criticism into back channels where it can more effectively be silenced and ignored.

Why shouldn't those of us who want to "continue the discussion" feel free to do so here and in Table Talk, Ms. Traister? Are you afraid that other people might find those arguments more compelling than your own?

I certainly didn't mean by my suggestion that I wanted to avoid public conversation. I offered it because I thought perhaps blackpaw and I were boring people with our specific back and forth. By all means, let's keep the Broadsheet discussion public.

All best,

Thanks, Salon staff, for creating Broadsheet. Very valuable stuff that the mostly main-stream male-dominated "penis press" won't bother to cover. Now on to the matter of the moment: the Alito nomination. Clearly Alito is a sop to the radical religous right and clearly, as leading women's groups have said, his nomination poses a danger to the health and safety of women everywhere.

Senate Republicans need vote to "NO!" on this jerk, and I have a radical proposal for making sure they do so (actually, it's not so radical, it dates back to the ancient Greeks). Here's my proposal: all women of America who are pro-choice and who have "pro-life" husbands/boyfriends need to refuse sex to their men. That's right; no sex for the ideological right-wingers until they agree to vote "NO!" on Alito.

I know this is rather a drastic idea; and somewhat politically incorrect coming from a man. But I know men; and I know that if women unite in public and refuse to have sex with their Republican-minded men, the men will cave; I'm certain of it. Besides, the media frenzy around it will keep the issue front and center. Women of America, you have the power, join together and use it to defeat Alito!

I'm a guy and my gut reaction to Broadsheet was that it would be irrelevant to me, not to mention a little silly. This was before I even clicked on it and I stayed away from it for a few visits until I was sufficiently bored and starving for new non-Plame/Alito information to consume.

I was pleasantly surprised by its relevance and non-standard focus(non-standard compared to my normal haunts). So, while my original take might speak to many of the critiques about packaging here I have to say I am surprised by the uproar. Much of the outrage here seems so undeserved.

Keep it up(not the outrage, the good work).

Just noticed the Broadsheet section while surfing Salon.com. I am VERY pleased. The new blog/news section gave me a whole new area to explore (with links!!) and I like what I see so far. I have been a feminist all my life, but dislike some of the too PC slant in many of the traditional womens organizations publications. Its nice to see a womens section in a major publication that doesn't have the persistant moralizing and preachiness that so many feminist sites indulge in. I am so ready to see a practical take on womens issues that merely presents the information we need rather than sermonizing on what we as feminists should fight against or believe. Let me choose the issues that matter to me. Good Job Salon! Keep it up. -B

In the wake of Rosa Parks' death (no pun intended) I find myself less receptive to the propoganda that is her legacy. Not to disrespect her memory, but her being touted as the "mother of the civil rights movement", for me rings false in a way.

I learned that another woman before Rosa Parks also protested giving up her seat, in the hopes of creating a domino effect among other civil rights supporters. However, I believe the woman--whose name I don't know, was not viewed by the NAACP as an upstanding enough citizen to represent the movement on it's behalf. She was a single mother and maybe had some other unattractive attributes. Rosa Parks had an entire organization behind her, but the situation is being made out to lead people to belive that she was this lone soldier who spontaneously struck out on her own and single handedly changed a thread in time, which doesn't seem to be the case.

I think Ms. Parks was a brave woman, but it is easier to be brave with a whole organization backing you. I just don't like the distortion of history-particularly when it negates the contributions of others who played significant roles as well.

As an African American woman I cherish and respect the actions that have occured before me that afford me the sometimes seemingly limited freedoms I enjoy today, however, I think there are many more women and men who made hefty contributions to the ongoing fight for civil rights in this country, who may have risked more, who may have accomplished more, who have been forgotten.

I am really liking this new feature of Salon. Great work folks!

I like this new broadsheet. Some valuable, thought-churning provocations. I am always happy to read commentary relating to women's issues. I only hope you are not risking a subsequent decline in coverage of women's issues in the main section of Salon by highlighting it in a separate section. Nevertheless I am eager to see how it turns out and optimistic about its value - at the very least I hope it will jumpstart new discussions about feminism, gender, sex, politics. Yum.

My only request is to please change your colour scheme. That colour pink reminds me of secret, shameful women's hygiene products or credit cards "just for you"! that encourage me to spend my hard-earned secretary's cash. In other words, a marketing scheme. Just for ladies! It fact, like a bull taunted by a red velvet cape, it damn near enrages me. Why is pernicious pink the dark side of bringing women's issues into the mainstream? Breast cancer = pink. Women love politics = PINK. 9 out of 10 women say they love pink! PINK PINK PINK PINK it drives me mad. Can I please be allowed to encounter a product related to my womanhood that is not coloured PINK?

Pink is for ballerinas. I last loved the colour pink when I was 6 years old. When I was 6 years old I had no idea what it meant to have a uterus.

May I remind the world that men are just as pink as women?